Wow, I have the opposite experience, but I'm pretty accustomed to GMail and it's icons. Up until this moment I'd been annoyed that my action bar in GMail was t

Wow, I have the opposite experience, but I'm pretty accustomed to GMail and it's icons. Up until this moment I'd been annoyed that my action bar in GMail was text-only after the update to the new interface. I was even wondering why the author was writing about the old GMail and went searching through the comments looking for others who were just as confused and checking GMail settings (it was there—I just missed it). The icons are much easier (for me) to decipher upon quick glance, once I know their meanings. The text requires me to actually read the buttons before clicking, which is slower if I'm not doing it repetitively (like tagging/archiving a weeks worth of emails on a Friday). That said, I'll always prefer a combination of icons and labels.