You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
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Bring back the green 'synced' checkmark in the system tray.
In my Windows system tray (next to the clock), Dropbox used to show that it was fully synced by showing a green check-mark over the Dropbox icon. This was really helpfull.
If Dropbox was offline, ...
My payment history shows at least 7 years of paid. I think I used dropbox for 2-3 years before that...as I thought I was an early invite ot something like that.
This update to take away the green check box is really annoying...as the system tray icon on Windows looks just like dropbox when you are not connected to the Internet.
I do not know what the other client software icons looked like...but this is really not an intuitive, helpful or friendly change to syncronize with the other clients look and feel...and leave the Windows users not knowing if dropbox is synchronized.
I see I got a message 2 hours ago on my system tray..but I did not know the message was there to tell me the green checkmark is no longer supported until I clicked the icon.
That green check mark meant so much to some many of us to know dropbox is all good at a glance.
Changing something so basic that has been ingrained in your customers like this since day one... all of a sudden is not a good sign of things to come.
I would suspect you have more people saying what they heck and complaining than you do have praising you for this change.
Putting the green check mark is the right thing to do.
Grey and black are too subtle to tell apart for status on an icon so small.
When we first got on dropbox we were trained with these words cached from google:
What does the green check mark mean in Dropbox?
Synced. A green circle with a check mark is a wonderful thing and what you'll see most often. When it appears on the Dropbox icon in your system tray or menu bar, it means your Dropbox is fully synced. When it appears on an individual file or folder, it means the file or folder has finished syncing the latest changes.
