Re: Overlay Icon war starts - Dropbox steels overlays

Just an idea : it might be interesting to have Tortoise detect that
its overlays are not high enough in the list, and show a dialog to the
user with several ways to deal with it:

1. Don't do anything, I don't care about Tortoise overlays.
2. Make tortoise first (by adding as much spaces as necessary), I
don't care about other tools' overlays.
3. Make Dropbox & friends share overlays with tortoise (possible
thanks to the clever design of TortoiseOverlays, see [1] for a reg
file supporting most popular file sharing tools).

It would even be possible to provide a tool to let the user reorganize
the order of the overlays, but that might be overkill.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34732378/anyway-to-have-programs-share-windows-explorer-icon-overlays

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Julien Cugnière
2017-01-13 11:42 GMT+01:00 André Ziegler <MagicAndre1981_at_live.com>:
> In the latest Dropbox Update, the developers add 3 spaces in front of their overlays to make sure their ones get shown.
>
> What are your plans to react to it? React and add 4 spaces? Or use 3 spaces and use the number in front like 1TortoiseNormal to get it before Dropbox?
>
>
> Also, in 2017 we should kill the Overlays for Locked and Readonly, I never need/use them and always kill them (and the dropbox5 - 10 icons) in registry to make sure I fit in the 15 overlay limit.
>
> For me the important ones are shown in the picture.
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