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The new Google Calendar for web

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Re: The new Google Calendar for web

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Post by m-p-3 »

kbenson wrote: post #90
stinky613 wrote: post #75

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I like Inbox, and I use it...but have you noticed that, stunningly, you can search for things in Inbox and get zero results and then take that same search into _gmail_ and get results?? (Unfortunately, no, I don't have an example I can demonstrate extemporaneously)

Inbox doesn't search hangouts conversations, which is a huge annoyance for me. You can load gmail and search and get those results, so it's annoying that you can't get it in Inbox. Other than that, I really prefer Inbox.

If at least it was possible to search something in a conversation from the Chrome extension, that would solve the issue for me.

Re: The new Google Calendar for web

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Post by signal11 »

stinky613 wrote: post #45

It's amazing how my gut reactions to Google announcements have changed over the years. Ten years ago: "Google released a new upgrade to X? Sweet! I wonder what cool stuff they added!" Today: "Google released a new upgrade to X? Ugh. I wonder what features/workflows they broke or removed." Am I just a cynical jerk, or do other people feel this way too?

I do have a problem with Google Calendar's feature-set, however they did fix one of my problems in the past-- no "month view" in the iOS app.

Re: The new Google Calendar for web

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Post by bzbarsky »

nitrogen wrote: post #94
bzbarsky wrote: post #83

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Mostly due to JavaScript, though styling can be a problem too; the gmail stylesheets have a huge number of rules (over 10,000), with a fair amount of duplication in them. For example, gmail has about 4600 rules that all set a background-image of "//ssl.gstatic.com/chat/emoji/png28-7f9d3a5045813584f828fe69a1fecb77.png" according to " rel="nofollow">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1397971#c0> . You can see…

has about 4600 rules that all set a background-image of "//ssl.gstatic.com/chat/emoji/png28-... Is that possibly a sprite sheet with different background position for each rule?

Ah, good catch. Yes, it is. See https://ssl.gstatic.com/chat/emoji/png28-7f9d3a5045813584f82...

It could probably specify the background image only once in a rule that matches all the relevant things and then specify the background positions separately. Sure would be more efficient without the browser having to jump through hoops to deduplicate the url.

Re: The new Google Calendar for web

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Post by joombaga »

olyjohn wrote: post #97
joombaga wrote: post #93

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It's on the G Suite blog, so I'm guessing it's for G Suite users first/only at this point.

Except the article says: "And if you use Calendar for personal use, click “Use new Calendar” in the upper righthand corner of the main Calendar view to get started." Went to my calendar, and this isn't there at all. And will I get the option to go back, or is the old calendar dead?

It's there now, and yeah, there is an option to switch back (for now) under the gear menu.

Re: The new Google Calendar for web

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Post by [deleted] »

theseanstewart wrote: post #61

Does anyone know why it's not possible to change the calendar for a given event in the Google Calendar iOS app? You can change the color of an event, but not the actual calendar the event is associated with. It drives me crazy. You have to delete the event and re-create it under the correct calendar.

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Re: The new Google Calendar for web

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Post by agmcleod »

ngrilly wrote: post #92
agmcleod wrote: post #56

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I generally like Inbox as well, feels faster than gmail. Though i've recently gone back to using a local client instead of the web. It's a bit of a change, but just feels simpler to use.

Which local client do you use? Do you download all your emails locally? What about search?

Search has been faster than it used to be. I've noticed this in Mail on iOS as well. I use airmail, which i don't think it downloads all emails locally.
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