mathiasbynens / mathiasbynens/dotfiles
“Use black and white menu bar icons” setting for Dropbox
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Description
As I do this for every new install, I’d like to enable the “Use black and white menu bar icons” Dropbox setting programatically (from within`.osx`, perhaps).
Sadly, rather than using a `.plist` file, Dropbox seems to store this setting in `~/.dropbox/config.dbx`, which is an encrypted SQLite database.
Filing this issue in case there’s a workaround that’s not too complex.
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the repository's .osx setup entry point and the issue's description of ~/.dropbox/config.dbx. Investigate whether Dropbox's encrypted SQLite database can be changed safely; done means enabling the black-and-white menu bar icon setting programmatically without relying on manual setup.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- shell, sqlite
- Domain
- operating-systems, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100