Nice features. That being said the “do more without leaving the inbox” seems like workarounds to the fact that Gmail lacks a 3 pane interface. A 3 pane interf

Nice features. That being said the “do more without leaving the inbox” seems like workarounds to the fact that Gmail lacks a 3 pane interface. A 3 pane interface makes much of the deeper features Gmail is adding on message hover redundant. One could argue that in a 3 pane interface you need to click the message you are interested in to get access to advanced actions but in Gmail you don’t. And while this is true, I’d say the need to hover over the message actually makes it harder. The hover needs to be maintained while in the 3 pane interface once you click you don’t need to maintain your mouse position. And you have far more context, since the entire email is displayed while still showing you all your other messages and not yanking you out of the inbox.