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That's a workaround of sorts, not a solution.
It solves the problem for the most part, which is what's important here. We're not building a rocket.
2. If you need to change the subject, maybe you need a new email.
3. Attaching a file?, just drag and drop from the download bar, or from the folder... Links really dont need to click the button.
4. Maybe your contacts use tweeter, but most of the industries dont, dont mess our email system with tweeter. It's awesome and anything you say, but it's almost exclusive of IT/media industry.
5. It's quite rare for someone to change the sending email address. I've several but I only change the email address when I really need. Most of the time, everybody knows my main address. (I happen to manage several companies, each of them with a simple webpage, I always receive my email at r*a.com, but I also have the other addresses just in case. Anyway, I always use the same. (Does Bill Gates used @microsoft.com @xbox.com @hotmail.com @….. =
In conclussion, Gmail is awesome for bussines, try Streak for managing your mail chains with other parts of your company and you will love it. The only thing I really need is an option to attach a Google DOC directly as PDF on a Email on Gmail, and chain it up to Streak.
EDIT: Sometimes I'm writing an email, and then I have to search for another one, or I receive a call. Sometimes I can be redacting an email for 4 hrs because I get busy. It's neat to minimize it and keep work rolling.
I can't remember the last Gmail change that was actually an improvement. In general Google's changes since the Google+ rollout have been 90% terrible. There's been a couple of changes to Youtube that are better (like the really big mode), but overall changes to all Google services have been bad. I feel like they've really lost the plot.
Totally disagree. Android, Google Now, Knowledge Graph, Maps, Drive/Docs, Google+ itself, and the Play Store have all seen marked improvements since the rollout of Google+. In Gmail, the new compose UI is an improvement in same ways -- for me it's an improvement overall, smart labels are an improvement, and email search has gotten significantly better. Oh, and virtually every mobile application of theirs has gotten m…
On a related note: did Google hire some broken UX person with an immense fetish for annoying popups and interruptions? It seems that almost every product has some sort of "oh, let me intrude into your day and tell you about some annoying UX misfeature that you have to stop everything you are doing and look at right now"-popup nowadays. Of course, since I have 3-4 Google accounts (work, personal, hobby projects etc) I…
4 feet by 6 feet, you say?
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Please... Usage data is irrelevant. The UI design at google is now being run by dictat from the top. User studies and survey results are massaged until they can be contorted into conclusions that suite the already made design decisions.
You're obviously going to need to justify that, since Google are fairly well known for heavy A/B testing, collect a tonne of data and make probably the most popular analytics tool on the web.
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It seems like concept of threading is too complicated for average user these days. All the new & trendy software for communication have no threading capabilities -- Discourse, Google+, Github issues, Moot.
Reddit is bigger than all of those, combined :)
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It seems like concept of threading is too complicated for average user these days. All the new & trendy software for communication have no threading capabilities -- Discourse, Google+, Github issues, Moot.
Threading is good for reading through one time and when there are many topics of interest. Email is something you often return to again and again and topics are organised using subject headers. Email discussion view was introduced by google a very long time ago before almost anyone else did it. It is a bit of a cosmetic trick where it just sorts emails that have the same subject. Threading does not jive with the way…
Here's another total usability fail: Tab sends the e-mail you're currently writing instead of indenting text. Everywhere else tab indents text, and when you write an e-mail in gmail you'd expect it to act consistently with how it's used everywhere else. Start writing in gmail, hit tab to indent some text. Congratulations you've now sent half an e-mail to you boss.... I can't fathom who thought this was a good idea.
Another big big problem is the "Quick VIew" option for the pdf or doc files in search results. Earlier, if I did not want to download it, I could just use "quick view" option. But they took it away, and now I have to be logged into my gmail account and it takes to google drive, so as to let me simply view the document. Crazy. And this is why i turned to mozilla, their pdf.js is still lacking...but I will support it such as it will be up to par or even better someday.
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The latest YouTube itrration is just god awful for me. Title should be above the thing I'm watching, not below. Because of that, the video sits in the top corner of my screen. And. I. Hate. It. Maybe there is a way to fix that, but guess what. I can't be arsed to look for it. It's nice to have an overhaul of your UI every now and then, but screwing it upside down every other day just makes me stop using it. Facebook…
My opinions are opposite yours. (except facebook, which I do not use) Youtube has a functional layout for my purposes, particularly in find videos of my subscriptions, after a user style modification or two, youtube can really shine. but GNOME? Want dontzap off? "No one actually wants that!" Want compose keys? "No one actually wants that!" Want your computer to stay on when you close the lid? "No one actually wants t…
I'm not exactly sure what does dontzap do, but apparently its X.org issue, not Gnome.
I agree they made some controversial changes. I don't really like the bottom tray. I don't like the lack of any meaningful customisation. Some really stupid shit was that they hid Power Off option for some time.
Then again, it is so good when it comes to my workflow I just roll with it. There are some prosthetics that helped me re-add some functionality - it was really annoying that background programs wouldn't show up in the top bar.
And my point kinda was that they did complete overhaul of UI, but then sticked to it (more or less). Layout isn't changing dramatically every few months.