Bring back the green 'synced' checkmark in the system tray.

Yes! Please bring it back!

You can make it an option and please most people.

I agreed removing the icons is not acceptable.  I am a consultant and myself and over 10 companies all setup on business level dropbox accounts.  Every single one of them have called me thinking drobox was offline and was having issues for them and their entire staff.  I felt i was experiencing the same thing too and spent an a hour reinstalling, unlinking/relinking, etc. until i found this article showing it as an "update". 

Please please please bring it back to the old way.  The fading thing just dowsn't work for my clients with small screens / older screens or who can't physically see the subtle differences.  One of the companies deals with the elderly (all 75+ years old) and nearly all of them are having issues seeing the differnces, where a check mark worked (and the fact it was green also helped).

Even Windows 10 Security Center (in the taskbar too) uses the green check mark system on the taskbar and on the entire Security Center list of items to show everything is safe and up-to-date (Virus, Device performance & health, Firewall, App/crowswer control".  Also OneDrive uses the green check mark system too (no longer in the taskbar but underer Windows Explorer and when clicking inside your OneDrive folder).

Forgetting about the taskbar for a second, the fact that the folders and files inside of your dropbox folder are not showing green check marks as well is a huge problem and not how OneDrive or any of the other syncing programs we've used work either.  This is a huge issue as they no longer look like "clould" folders/files anymore and noone can tell which folders/files are synced and which ones are local.  Meanwhile OneDrive has green checks on all the ones synced to the cloud.

I'm not sure if this will get read or not but i hope it does becuase i desperaly DON'T want to move myself and all these businesses away from Drobox and have to go to OneDrive (or Google Drive), as i a not a fan of there services, expecially for a stupid reason like an icon.  But bottom line if every one of my clients called and had issues (which they all did) and their customers can't physically see the differences (as explained above), something will have to be done :(

Hi all

Just wanted to ping a message here to let you know this thread is being tracked and that I passed this on to our desktop team.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

Ed

+1

Please bring back the green tick

PLEASE !!!

Ed,

Thank you for the heads-up.

Does your team have a timeframe for an icon fix?

What POSSIBLE reason would you have (that would benefit your users) for removing the green tick? 

If there are people who would prefer not to know that everything is ok with their Dropbox then maybe add it back as an option. 

It now looks like my Dropbox is offline so I have to checking that it is ok! 

This change makes no sense whatsoever.

Please reinstate it or make it an option as soon as possible.

Thanks 

Thank you to Madpentiste on page 12 for the suggestion for Ubuntu users, I may have to give that a try. My problem in Ubuntu is that either the greying out of the icon for un-synced is not working, or else the change is so minor I can't see the difference.

I am used to the green tick, and if it ain't broke....  However there definitely needs to be a clearer distinction between synced and unsynced. I don't want to shut down a home computer thinking everything is synced and then find on the road that those important files I needed have not updated.

Green tick back please.

+1

please bring back the green 'fully synced' checkmark.

I am not opposing the change and don't mind adjusting to the new behavior (people should be a bit less lazy with their habits) especially since it means to imply the normal/default state of each dropbox is fully synced. However. faded icon to imply not syncing is much harder to process visually than a little X or some other clue so at least the choice of icons for other statuses can be improved.