Gmail.com redesign leaks, looks pretty incredible
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This is something that almost pushes me over the edge to change email providers. If it wasn't such a pain in the ass to change email addresses I would have been gone years ago. Not to mention the creepy ads that just happen to start showing up or SPAM that shows up because of an email conversation you had with someone. That almost makes me want to setup my own email server.
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Actually, amber ...Don't you mean a pure black screen where you write code in green text?End-stage skeuomorphism was leather texture and painted-on spiral-bound rings.
End-stage minimalism will be a pure white touchscreen where you just write pseudocode to tell the interface what you want it to do
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Are they getting rid of the part where the computer reads my emails and then offers to respond for me? Creepy...
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I would say a combo of people thinking they know the law and erring on the side of caution. It's my understanding that, unless my signature has graced a legally binding document, that notice is toothless and good for scaring people into compliance and that's it. I leak a damaging email from my employer, where I signed an NDA? Yeah, better make sure it's not traced back to me. I post something on Twitter, Reddit, Ars and didn't sign anything? Oh well! Being harassed by companies whose legal team is funded more per year than I will make in 100 lifetimes is another matter, of course...
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You mean the group that will be the first to tell you that those are meaningless for 95% of the emails that they are attached to?
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Iirc about the logo change, I don't think they can use 'gmail' in some countries due to copyright? That why we got mail.google.com originally.
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Everything old is new again. After a while those bubbles and circles will have fake raytracing and highlights and then semi-transparency and before you know it we'll be right back to Windows XP clown vomit.
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Multiple focus groups have determined that the average user does not need or want this functionality.
/s
Edit: forgot the /s, and realized it might not be as obvious as I thought
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Hopefully they will keep some sort of dark theme as I can't stand the blinding white material design wheatever... but I'm not holding my breath.
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The only "feature" I'd really like to see is being able to archive your incoming mail into folders directly AND still get notifications for them. Right now if you filter and archive inbound email you get no notifications of a new message. I don't want everything in my inbox, but I *do* want to be able to see notifications for incoming mail, especially if I can tag specific folders to allow notifications.
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“Default” and “Comfortable” are two separate options? Shouldn’t Default be comfortable by default? What’s going on with today’s designers?
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Kind of surprised I didn't see this in anyone else's comments (unless I overlooked it, sorry!), but my big question is:
How well does it run?
For example: the new version of Calendar looks nice, but I find it's slower than the old calendar to use. Takes a moment to switch months. Not a huge delay, but aggregated over dozens and hundreds of interactions it gets annoying.
I use Gmail much, much more frequently than I do Calendar. As inoffensive-looking as this redesign appears to be on the surface, if it runs less smoothly I am going to be livid.
How well does it run?
For example: the new version of Calendar looks nice, but I find it's slower than the old calendar to use. Takes a moment to switch months. Not a huge delay, but aggregated over dozens and hundreds of interactions it gets annoying.
I use Gmail much, much more frequently than I do Calendar. As inoffensive-looking as this redesign appears to be on the surface, if it runs less smoothly I am going to be livid.
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Hmmm...the definition of incredible seems to have been demoted to "just slightly different".
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Maybe I'm alone in this but I honestly don't care what it looks like or how fancy their designers want to be or how flat and boring they want to be.
It is all good as long as they don't mess with the shortcut keys! For me, it's the only thing that makes the bloated and slow webinterface usable.
It is all good as long as they don't mess with the shortcut keys! For me, it's the only thing that makes the bloated and slow webinterface usable.
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Dark Pumpkin
Ars Scholae Palatinae
I really hope they keep the compact and dark options. Gmail is an eyesore to me with that massive quantity of wasted whitespace in it's default setting. Other than that they can play with it however they want.
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Can we please have better support for mailing lists? (He said, expecting the answer "no"). I mean an option to turn off the damn top-posting (formerly available as a Labs plugin, but no longer), use the "quote only selected text" method that proper MUAs have, etc.
For too long Gmail (as with every other webmail client) has been slavishly following the broken Outlook model. At least give us the option of turning it off.
For too long Gmail (as with every other webmail client) has been slavishly following the broken Outlook model. At least give us the option of turning it off.
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Well, when everything's incredible, nothing's incredible, you know.
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Lawyers have shown time and time again that email disclaimers aren't worth the bits they're transmitted with. If you blame anyone, blame management who think they're necessary.
It's up to the sender to ensure that data is being transmitted properly, not the receient.
If email disclaimers were truly needed, they'd be at the start of the email before any confidential information,not at the end.
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1. Again, no Folders = Fail.
Amazing how many people accidentally delete important messages selecting all and deleting. Much better with folders - can't delete filed messages by accident from the main inbox.
2. Waste of data bandwidth and screen space.
Back to the old 1 line, 1 message in simpler html.
Newest email designs? More data wasted loading the interface than the messages and headers.
Amazing how many people accidentally delete important messages selecting all and deleting. Much better with folders - can't delete filed messages by accident from the main inbox.
2. Waste of data bandwidth and screen space.
Back to the old 1 line, 1 message in simpler html.
Newest email designs? More data wasted loading the interface than the messages and headers.
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1) Google is up front about what it is doing, the Government isn't
2) Google gives me something of value in exchange for violating my privacy.
3) Google can't toss my lard laden ass in jail
4) I can, if I so choose, not use Gmail.
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Actually, amber ...Don't you mean a pure black screen where you write code in green text?End-stage skeuomorphism was leather texture and painted-on spiral-bound rings.
End-stage minimalism will be a pure white touchscreen where you just write pseudocode to tell the interface what you want it to do
Just enable IMAP in the Gmail settings and use it with mutt in the terminal... you really don't NEED to use the web interface if you don't want to ;-)
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No, you can't unless you have some magic way of determining the recipient of your non-gmail originated message isn't a gmail user.
This is the insidious part. Google reads your emails even if you aren't a gmail user and didn't "opt in," but sent an email to a gmail user.
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Because it is talking about the redesign and the privacy implications of using Gmail is a completely different topic. There are plenty of other articles that cover that topic.
I think most people (or at least most of the people that read Ars) are aware of the privacy implications of using GMail and are okay with it. It is fine if your not and choose not to use Gmail.
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Every time I hear about changes to GMail, my immediate fear is that priority inbox support is going away. Sadly this doesn’t help to assuage my panic.
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