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

i vote a message up and it goes down... then it goes where it was without my vote ??? maybe "admins have to check first"

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wowtah wrote:

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, it would show no overlay icon. 

 

Recently (and according to Dropbox itsself) this has changed, the Dropbox icon now shows no overlay if it is fully synced, but to me, i constantly think my Dropbox is offline, instead of 'fully synced'.

 

So the idea is: please bring back the green 'fully synced' checkmark. Or -at least- make it an option to show it. 

 

Please upvote this idea if you agree :white_check_mark:

 

 

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I AGREE!

Please put back the green checkmark on the icon!
The checkmark was easily visible and told me ***immediately*** that my files synced successfully.

But now that it's gone, I keep thinking my Dropbox isn't connected to the internet!

And since I'm a busy person, I don't have the patience to worry for a split second, and then drag my mouse all the oway over the icon and then see if it syced properly.

Please add back the checkmark! Thank you!

Yes! Bring back the green check!

Yes please bring back the green tick, it was simple and logical

+1

This takes the piss!!  First they made it black and white - and ruined the look and made it look like a system icon, now this.  

Listen to your paying users! Or we'll shift our upvotes to wallet votes!

Just want to add my vote to all the above: it was really useful to be able to see at a glance that sync was completed before shutting down -- the new look is completely unhelpful (especially on my 4k screen, where the Dropbox taskbar icon is tiny).

+1

Please bring back the old icon - I personally find it much more intuitive to see a clear indication as to whether my Dropbox is fully sync'd, currently sync'ing or disconnected via coloured tick/sync/cross symbols overlaying the dropbox system tray icon rather than shades of grey.

Green tick please. can see no advantage to removing it.

If you want to get rid of the green checkmark to indicate that everything is ok, that's fine, but then instead of fading the icon on failure put the red x over it instead. That'd even be a better design than what we originally had.

Old UI:

Normal icon = disconnected (this never made sense)

Green tick = synced

Blue spinner = syncing

Current UI:

Faded icon = disconnected (harder to distinguish)

Normal icon = synced

Blue spinner = syncing

Proposed UI

Red cross = disconnected

Normal icon = synced

Blue spinner = syncing

One of the reasons that I believe Dropbox differentiates themselves from Google drive and rubbish Onedrive is that I can constantly see if there is a sync error by reading the check mark. Now it is gone and I do not like it.