How about a distinguishing "Overlay Icon"?

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t1470258

How about a distinguishing "Overlay Icon"?

Post by t1470258 » Tue Dec 09, 2008 10:28 am

Hi,

As I've been using Sandboxie and keeping some applications only as sanboxed for security, sometimes same application with 1 unsandboxed and 1 sandboxed link, I saw the need for a way to distinguish between the sandboxed and unsandboxed links for the application...

Take my example with Firefox; I keep 1 unsandboxed for general and 1 sandboxed link for testing and other purposes. BTW since Firefox only allows one instance at a time AFAIK, Sandboxie is one of the solutions for "multiple" instances for Firefox. But keeping two icons/links on desktop or quick launch side by side can be quite confusing sometimes (can be kept seperate yet like many other I organize my icons due related functionality on desktop and quick launch)...

Thus thinking about a solution I came up changing/editing the icon as good as I could making "the" icon representing that it's a "Firefox running under Sandboxie" where the result is:
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Looking at it I couldn't help myself thinking that "Can Sandboxie also modify/stamp icons by option indicating that they're sandboxed?"...

AFAIK Windows and some few programs (don't remember) can "overlay" small icons over application icons indicating origins/purpose. May Windows overlay be done in realtime, Sandboxie can simply create a new icon modifying the original icon putting its signature small icon resulting something similar/better than the example above. I know this kind of feature request is way below in the long waiting list but I think it's a good, meant-to-be, eyecandy feature which you or some contributer can implement in the (near;-)) future I hope...

Without more features (unless a bug) the current Sandboxie is way way better than the other programs providing similar functionality I've tried so far. Thanks for inventing such great program and thanks again for reading...

Bye ;-)

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