Icon overlay resource conflict: borrow other apps icon overlays?

[waynemcl]

Hi

Long time user (thanks team!) first time poster.

Given the shortage of icon overlays in windows explorer, and some software using arguably dirty tricks to prioritise their own display needs (_how_ many leading spaces??), how about:

If google-drive or Onedrive or Dropbox are installed, just use their icons?

This does have an install / maintenance dependency, but losing the icons is a pain. I for one don't care much exactly how the icons look, just the basic status.

I had a look through the changelist / support, and I couldn't see this suggested before, so apologies if it's already been dealt with.

Cheers, thanks, W

[Stefan]

On Thursday, October 4, 2018 at 2:48:36 AM UTC+2, waynemcl wrote:

Hi

Long time user (thanks team!) first time poster.

Given the shortage of icon overlays in windows explorer, and some software using arguably dirty tricks to prioritise their own display needs (_how_ many leading spaces??), how about:

If google-drive or Onedrive or Dropbox are installed, just use their icons?

That's not possible.

The various Tortoise-clients (TSVN, TGit, THg, ...) can do that because I wrote an overlay handler which they all can use. But Onedrive/Dropbox/... don't use such a general overlay handler.

Stefan

[waynemcl]

Thanks for taking the time to explain. 

W

[ralf....@gmail.com]

Hi
I also hate it when Dropbox update it self and so prioritize its overlay icons. Dropbox does it with the "dirty-trick" with 3 leading spaces as explained by waynemcl.
Could we go in to the fight with 4 leading spaces on one of the next updates of TortoiseSVN?
It would be so great when TortoiseSVN shows all overlay icons correct! And its so much more important that TortoiseSVN and not some stupid cloud-hoster shows its icons correct .

Thanks
Ralf

[Stefan]

On Thursday, July 11, 2019 at 4:23:21 PM UTC+2, (unknown) wrote:

Could we go in to the fight with 4 leading spaces on one of the next updates of TortoiseSVN?

That's a classical "What if two programs did this":

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050607-00/?p=35413