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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LuisA1Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHello,
I'm hoping to shed some light on this.
This build includes a change to the Dropbox icon in the system tray to include the new logo and a new behavior. When everything's synced, you'll now see a solid Dropbox icon without a checkmark on both Windows and Linux. This behavior has already been in place on Mac.
We are hoping to have messaging within the app about this change once this is available in the stable build.
Thank you!
LuisA1 wrote:
This build includes a change to the Dropbox icon in the system tray to include the new logo and a new behavior. When everything's synced, you'll now see a solid Dropbox icon without a checkmark on both Windows and Linux.
Yet the paused status still overlays the yellow "paused" icon on top of the faded DB icon; syncing status still overlays the animated blue "syncing" icon.
Why the aversion to simply having the green "synced" overlay still in place?
This is UI/UX design 101. Positive feedback to the user.
An absence of negative feedback -- e.g. not marginally fading an icon, or not overlaying a negative status icon -- is not equal to and is far less user-friendly than providing clear (particularly clearly color-coded) positive feedback.
This behavior has already been in place on Mac.
Indeed it is. And, as a user of both the Mac and Windows platforms, it's already similarly frustrating on the Mac. Not even a black/white checkmark any more.
This is literally just conceding to the lowest common denominator; there is no other compelling reason to make this change. OS X has been gradually sucking the color out of all kinds of critical UI elements, and it actively hampers the user experience. Apple is not a good example to follow in this regard.
