How about just supporting previously existing features like attaching jar files?
Google: "Sorry we're busy impl'ing features no one's asked for."
Gmail Launches Add-ons
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#172This link does not open here https://www.blog.google/products/g-suite/do-more-your-inbox-... http://blog.google.com/ Doesn't open too But https://gsuite-developers.googleblog.com opens and google.com opens. I have tested on my smartphone and didn't work. I am from Brasil, so, I do not think is some kind of restriction. Anyone have any idea what's going on?
Hey, I'm the Tech Lead of the team that runs .google. Can you provide more information? What browser are you using? Can you use some tool like https://ipleak.net/ to determine what DNS servers you're hitting? And can you try some of these other domain names on other TLDs and report back? https://nomulus.foo https://nic.dev https://pki.goog/
Hi, thanks.
None of those 3 sites open here. What kind of information do you need from ipleak.net?
DNS Address - 1 server 45.62.204.178 Canada Canada
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#173So, I started using inbox a while ago when it was announced and I love it. Really. What's the state of development of it? Doesn't seems to be moving much and a lot of features from gmail are still missing, and I continue to see dev happening on gmail and not on inbox. Should I be moving back to inbox?
Came to post this as well. Inbox is a great product, but it seems to have been forgotten - probably because most of the users still use gmail, since getting "normies" to switch to anything is near impossible without social pressure being some contributor to the switch. Plus, Gmail still has a ton of features that were never ported over, which will also prevent some advanced users who rely on these features consistent…
I think you're missing the point of Inbox. It's not supposed to replace Gmail, not now and not ever. It's an additional way of using Gmail, hence why its full name is actually "Inbox by Gmail".
Inbox is an attempt to make Gmail easier to use for the average user who has simple needs, so all the "power user" features you want aren't supposed to be in Inbox. If your needs are complicated, you can just use Gmail. Inbox doesn't really introduce any new features that Gmail cannot do, it simply reframes Gmail features in a different UI and workflow. For example, Inbox's "done" action is available in Gmail, but in Gmail it's called "archive". Same with Inbox's "bundles": they're just called "tabs" in Gmail.
As an Inbox user, I'm pretty happy with the state of Inbox. I don't need extra features get my stuff done in Inbox. Porting every Gmail feature to Inbox is missing the point.
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#174Earlier quoted context omitted.
From the programming and functionality perspective that's fantastic. From the data security perspective that's a nightmare.
I don't think androids intent system has any large security implications (I think it has had some but in general). But what I find more interesting/suprising how often I read about these types of concerns given that desktop operating systems provide very limited protection in this area e.g firefox can read all my emails since thunderbird and firefox are run as the same user.
I think the concerns come from the side of people (legal and real) that want to store data and perform computation on other people's devices without the owner being able to control things.
What do I mean by this? Anyone with a 'private' API, anyone who's business model involves DRM and anyone who thinks that a remote wipe of an unwilling device should be possible.
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#175I just want to be able to select text and bottom post again...
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#176Earlier quoted context omitted.
Those actions are on the e-mail sender to implement; GMail has an open specification for an e-mail to provide a structured representation of data it contains. https://gsuite-developers.googleblog.com/2013/05/introducing...
Right, a corporate spammer can tell google that an email is a calendar event (valuable data!). But the receiving user can't do it themselves using some other calendar app.
In android's intents model it's the email app so that would need to use the create event intent to send the data to the calendar.
To do this the calendar would need to access the emails - which would need either IMAP built in to the calendar app [EDIT: or to change the android permission model].
Edited - finished sentence
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#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
To provide a counterpoint, I think it's great the way it is in this respect. I don't want any of these features and wouldn't want others to use things like HTML signatures.
I agree, a few less signatures in the world isn't a bad thing.
Would be nice to be able to configure different (plain text) signatures for my different email addresses though.
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#178And selling data to third-party just got easier.
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#179Gmail on Android is such a shitty locked-down experience. Want to create an appointment from an email? Nope. Want to set a reminder about an email? Nope. Want to link to an email from a notes or other app? Nope. OK, well now maybe. If you become a "business partner" with them and shove your product into whatever grand strategery they're cooking up this quarter. It's sad to think how Android was envisioned as this ope…
google doesn't hate open, they give us a lot of quality free / open source software. being who they are, they also make proprietary products. I'd take a world with google's contributions to foss than one without.
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#180Gmail on Android is such a shitty locked-down experience. Want to create an appointment from an email? Nope. Want to set a reminder about an email? Nope. Want to link to an email from a notes or other app? Nope. OK, well now maybe. If you become a "business partner" with them and shove your product into whatever grand strategery they're cooking up this quarter. It's sad to think how Android was envisioned as this ope…
What bugs me the most is offline use. If you have unreliable network coverage, like I do everyday in the subway, the damn thing tries to connect for every action and then just become unresponsive if the connection fails. You have to activate airplane mode so it'll know not to try to access the network.