> It would, of course, be better if they let you customize the shortcuts and sped up the loading of the initial page. Those were the main things I had in mind

> It would, of course, be better if they let you customize the shortcuts and sped up the loading of the initial page. Those were the main things I had in mind (along with adequately customizable desktop notifications). As for shortcut customizations, the Labs feature isn't as good as a configuration file in my opinion (slower to edit, harder to share, harder to diff, etc.). As for the loading of the initial page, I still wonder why it takes so long... You could probably get a nice setup by keeping a Gmail window open and assigning a shortcut in your WM to display this window, but it's not a common feature in WMs.