Nice feature, but they'd better not show 0 when no unread messages.
That's exactly what they do. I'm not quite sure why you think it's such a bad idea though?
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Re: New in Gmail Labs: Unread message icon
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm tidy. I don't have any. My wife on the other hand... I think you either have 0 or 10K+.
I don't know how people can withstand that. At 1k+ messages you might as well declare email bankruptcy and regain a meaningful counter.
I've done this twice now. I'm sure there was some important stuff in my "Archive all unread emails" click, but I sure as hell wasn't going to check.
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#53I had no idea Chrome had that "pin tabs" feature until I read this blog post. My tab bar is suddenly a lot neater without the ever-present Gmail/HN/SO occupying as much space as the stuff I'm actively working on.
Me neither. But I have multiple gmail apps open. How do I tell the difference? grah.
Tooltips on the tab.
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#54Nice feature, but they'd better not show 0 when no unread messages.
That's exactly what they do. I'm not quite sure why you think it's such a bad idea though?
I don't know the grandparent's reasoning, but for me, having a small 0 there means I loose the peripheral vision effect of the icon. That little glowing "0" is hard to distinguish from another number in quick glance. If there were no icon then I could quickly determine the most important piece of information to me - do I have mail or not?
Screenshot of the "0" and "2" from two Gmail tabs I have open side by side:
http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/6883/20110126084559select...
I tend to keep my inbox fully read. It's my staging area - Unread = totally unprocessed, Read = TODO, Starred = Deferred TODO or important later. For me, a quick glance for unread (any amount) is more useful than exactly how many.
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#55I had no idea Chrome had that "pin tabs" feature until I read this blog post. My tab bar is suddenly a lot neater without the ever-present Gmail/HN/SO occupying as much space as the stuff I'm actively working on.
It used to be that you couldnt SOMETHING-w to close a pinned tab. If you did that, it would just gray out and when you clicked on it, it reopened in at the same location. Now, it has to stay open, you can close w/o taking extra actions and it is always using memory for the full page. I tell you all of this so hopefully you can imagine how much better it used to be and I can add you to the campaign to get the old beha…
For a while there the persistent-but-closed state of pinned tabs was coming in and out randomly for me (based on updates on whichever repository I was on).
I agree, the old behavior of having a dual-state pinned tab was VERY nice. I pretty much always have three pinned tabs now (GMail, GMail, GReader), but it used to be a few more. Now if I close GReader, which I do if I'm focusing down on working and know I won't be hitting it, it disappears - instead of that little placeholder.
I've been hoping re-enabling that behavior it was an option I just missed somewhere. I guess not.
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#56I had no idea Chrome had that "pin tabs" feature until I read this blog post. My tab bar is suddenly a lot neater without the ever-present Gmail/HN/SO occupying as much space as the stuff I'm actively working on.
Me neither. But I have multiple gmail apps open. How do I tell the difference? grah.
Positioning.
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#57Very handy feature to have, I had been keeping an eye on the pinned tabs - they flash/pulse when the page updates (new email comes in), now it's a lot easier.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Me neither. But I have multiple gmail apps open. How do I tell the difference? grah.
Tooltips on the tab.
Tooltips take about 2 seconds to show on mouse-over. If you had to do it all the time to figure out which account you're looking/peeking at, you'd go nuts.
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#59I had no idea Chrome had that "pin tabs" feature until I read this blog post. My tab bar is suddenly a lot neater without the ever-present Gmail/HN/SO occupying as much space as the stuff I'm actively working on.
Me neither. But I have multiple gmail apps open. How do I tell the difference? grah.
Have them all forward to one gmail account and manage them from there.
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#60What's the point? How many people actually keep fewer than 10k unread messages in their inbox?
I don't know why you're being downvoted, but I think there are quite a few of us who have at least a thousand unread messages. I have all kind of git commit messages that show up in my inbox that I don't always mark as read, not to mention all the mailing lists I subscribe to that aren't all in filters....
Commit messages and successful build/test messages automatically get set to read by a filter for me.