This looks really cool but I have two concerns:<p>1. The latest thing shared with me was a photo, and a thumbnail is shown. This photo happened to be nothing significant but what if it was a private photo? Now that photo shows up whenever I want to jump to a recently changed document using the menu (which I do often even before the update).<p>2. This might be a personal problem: it makes me a little uncomfortable that the program just added this new functionality to itself without asking me. Is it normal for me to feel this way? Or is this how it should be, and I'm just used to all my old programs (MS Office, Adobe etc) asking me for permission before updates? I mean honestly I like this update and I haven't had any dropbox new feature that I didn't immediately love (Except for the automatically ask me to import photos from my iphone feature) but what if they decide to remove a feature in the future... I guess since this is a subscription service I should set my expectations appropriately, that service will change, unlike buying Microsoft Excel for example which will just work and keep the old features until I buy the new version.
Hm. I had version 1.6 or so installed so I headed over to <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/install" rel="nofollow">https://www.dropbox.com/install</a><p>As usual with linux they provide downloads like "dropbox_1.4.0_amd64.deb". So I went to the windows and mac os download page to look at what version the blog post was about (the blog did not say that it was 2.0).<p>Then I tried the link they have for the command line install: <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64" rel="nofollow">https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64</a><p>This actually downloads a dropbox that is versioned with 2.0. At least there's a file VERSION included that has 2.0.0 as its content.<p>The "gui" (tray context menu I guess) of course hasn't changed, it's still the same it was a long time ago.
Yuck. I like the simplicity of the old menu. I don't use all those fancy shmancy DropBox sharing features and I don't want them slowing down my computer every time I try to open the DropBox folder.<p>Can I choose to not upgrade? For how long can I get away with that before DropBox's servers reject my client?
I haven't looked at this in detail, but at a glance, you need an "ask me later" option. There are times when I need to consider before deciding but don't or can't interrupt what I'm currently doing.<p>If a user can revisit a declined invitation and accept it, later, make this clearer. Still, I'd rather not have to remember to go and fish those out of the declined "list".