Anxiety over the new Gmail Compose

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Post by onelovelyname » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 8:17 PM UTC

Anxiety over the new Gmail Compose
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Re: Anxiety over the new Gmail Compose

#2

Post by bnejad » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 8:41 PM UTC

Really, anxiety? Use a native/local mail client and I'm sure it will solve your problems.

Re: Anxiety over the new Gmail Compose

#3

Post by uptown » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 8:42 PM UTC

Why not just hold shift when you click "compose"?

Re: Anxiety over the new Gmail Compose

#4

Post by res0nat0r » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 8:43 PM UTC

Click the "->I like the new version and wish they'd used it long ago, I want a large box to type my emails in, not a small rectangle.

Re: Anxiety over the new Gmail Compose

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Post by onelovelyname » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 8:46 PM UTC

bnejad wrote: post #2

Really, anxiety? Use a native/local mail client and I'm sure it will solve your problems.

Yeah I'm kinda OCD about my email.

Thanks, just found the HN thread about email clients. Checking out Airmail now.

Re: Anxiety over the new Gmail Compose

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Post by Sulfolobus » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 8:46 PM UTC

uptown wrote: post #3

Why not just hold shift when you click "compose"?

Using shift-click to open in a new window is a fairly standard behaviour in most browsers these days isn't it? Then again I guess it wasn't intuitive in this case.

Edit: I should note that the above is actually a genuine question.

Re: Anxiety over the new Gmail Compose

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Post by onelovelyname » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 8:46 PM UTC

uptown wrote: post #3

Why not just hold shift when you click "compose"?

Yep, just found this out from another comment. Thanks!

Re: Anxiety over the new Gmail Compose

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Post by molecule » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 8:46 PM UTC

To avoid being distracted by the gmail inbox and to have a clean composition interface, I always keep this URL bookmarked, and it still works w/ the new compose:

https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&source=mailt...

Re: Anxiety over the new Gmail Compose

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Post by scott_s » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 8:49 PM UTC

onelovelyname wrote: post #5

bnejad wrote: post #2

Really, anxiety? Use a native/local mail client and I'm sure it will solve your problems.

Yeah I'm kinda OCD about my email. Thanks, just found the HN thread about email clients. Checking out Airmail now.

Perhaps the anxiety is because there was a change, and not specifically this change?

Re: Anxiety over the new Gmail Compose

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Post by onelovelyname » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 8:49 PM UTC

res0nat0r wrote: post #4

Click the "-> I like the new version and wish they'd used it long ago, I want a large box to type my emails in, not a small rectangle.

Clicking "-><-" brings me to a small chat-like box for my email. Agreed though, I like large boxes for email.