Re: Overlay Icon war starts - Dropbox steels overlays

On 13.01.2017 11:42, André Ziegler wrote:
> 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?

No, that's a race nobody can win.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050607-00/?p=35413

> 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.

you can configure the ones you want shown in the settings dialog.
Also, the overlays are set in the overlays component, which is used by
(I think) all Tortoise clients which exist, and even some other SCM
clients as well. So we can't remove those.

Stefan

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