“Use black and white menu bar icons” setting for Dropbox

[mathiasbynens]

“Use black and white menu bar icons” setting for Dropbox

[sgtpep]

I've found a workaround that is working at least for me. It's a replacing of the resource icons. I suppose it'll have effect until next application update in which Dropbox may restore resource images back.

for p in ~/Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Resources/*-lep.tiff; do cp $p ${p%-lep.tiff}.tiff; done

[mathiasbynens]

Nice find! I have Dropbox installed under /Applications instead of ~/Applications, but with that small change your script works flawlessly.

for p in /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Resources/*-lep.tiff; do echo cp $p ${p%-lep.tiff}.tiff; done

[sgtpep]

...and shorter command for copying :)

<...> cp $p ${p/-lep./.} <...>

[ktgvv]

@mathiasbynens 4 years later, I step on your tracks once again. I was sure you opened an issue about this. 😂 defaults read returns nothing interesting for Dropbox.

In fact, Dropbox has a fairly independent way to do things — even when OS X defaults exist for it. See for yourself:



Dropbox's screenshots handling looks more like an Automator script with a folder action than using OS X's native user defaults.

If someone can run Windows, they should have a look at this. Maybe we could decrypt Dropbox's settings, edit then encrypt them back.

[Tatsh]

Not sure on that. This repo does not go through the trouble of dealing with binary formats 😞 . Should start another repo for that kind of stuff, including OS X's internal formats.

By the way @kvpb nice font. Is that on El Capitan or Sierra?

[ktgvv]

@Tatsh While I avoid overwriting default files with custom ones of mine [using the OS' resources to keep it as independent as possible], if there is no other way, I don't mind using some lines to convert, edit and convert back some stuff. If there was an OS native way to convert and edit Dropbox files from CLI, I'd put it in my script.
If the font you are referring to is the one on iTerm, it should be Menlo. It's the only clean fixed-width font that resembles Helvetica as far as I know.