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"The end result is a system that is more flexible, more responsive, and always keeps your chat contacts and unread count visible" I have to disagree. The new d

by city41 15y ago

"The end result is a system that is more flexible, more responsive, and always keeps your chat contacts and unread count visible" I have to disagree. The new design hides the unread count of labels you have that didn't make the cut to be always visible. I now have to hover over the label sections in gmail to keep tabs on my labels. Thus I really dislike this new design. What used to be accomplished at a glance now requires conscious mouse movement. EDIT: As I discovered below in this thread, you can drag the divider and make it so all labels are on screen at once. So my comment is now irrelevant.

gatlin 15y ago
The upside is my chat roster is not pushed down really far. I know of the labs feature to put the roster on the right side but that ends up having annoying layout quirks (and, admittedly, irrational ugliness) which make that even less desirable. And then of course the punch line is I don't chat much in Gmail these days anyway.
sp332 15y ago
You can drag the label above the "cut" to make it always visible.
- city41 15y ago
  That doesn't work for me (Chrome on OSX). The label is draggable, but I can never get it to be droppable (it always returns to its original location). I also have more labels than can fit in the "always visible" section. EDIT: Ah! But you can drag the cut divider itself. Sweet! All my labels are on the screen again. Thanks!
- anigbrowl 15y ago
  No, you can drag the cut divider past the label you want to expose, which then leaves all the other (unwanted) ones exposed as well. The new functionality is OK, but that's all - hardly worth a self-congratulatory press release on how it was designed. And I'm mystified about why the left column is so narrow; I don't use a widescreen monitor, but even at a 4:3 screen ratio and with a relatively low resolution of 1280:1024, the left-hand column feels cramped and inefficient, with everything organized vertically into lists and dropdowns. You know what I'd like? Being able to net my labels without the nesting being in the label title. I have a Family label, with sub-labels like House, Medical, and so on. These show up in the list of emails as Family/Medical which is a waste of space. true, I might have other medical categories, but if I did I could use color to differentiate them.
  - sp332 15y ago
    No, you can drag the cut divider past the label you want to expose, which then leaves all the other (unwanted) ones exposed as well. You can drag the divider up and down to change the number of labels that are shown. You can also drag-and-drop individual labels across the divider to show or hide them. I just tested on FF, Chrome, and IE and it works.
    - anigbrowl 15y ago
      I can do the former, but the latter seems to be broken at present. Might be because I'm in using a dev build with multiple flags enabled ATM though.
  - spwmoni 15y ago
    1280x1024 is 5:4. The More You Know ~
    - anigbrowl 15y ago
      Iioa~ Agdur ibw arwo ri rgw eufgr,
TillE 15y ago
> So my comment is now irrelevant. Not at all. It's extremely nonobvious, and had been annoying the hell out of me for weeks. The default behavior is just terrible. If even the computer nerds can't figure out how to configure your interface, you've done something wrong.

by city41 15y ago

gatlin 15y ago

The upside is my chat roster is not pushed down really far. I know of the labs feature to put the roster on the right side but that ends up having annoying layout quirks (and, admittedly, irrational ugliness) which make that even less desirable. And then of course the punch line is I don't chat much in Gmail these days anyway.

sp332 15y ago

You can drag the label above the "cut" to make it always visible.

city41 15y ago
That doesn't work for me (Chrome on OSX). The label is draggable, but I can never get it to be droppable (it always returns to its original location). I also have more labels than can fit in the "always visible" section. EDIT: Ah! But you can drag the cut divider itself. Sweet! All my labels are on the screen again. Thanks!
anigbrowl 15y ago
No, you can drag the cut divider past the label you want to expose, which then leaves all the other (unwanted) ones exposed as well. The new functionality is OK, but that's all - hardly worth a self-congratulatory press release on how it was designed. And I'm mystified about why the left column is so narrow; I don't use a widescreen monitor, but even at a 4:3 screen ratio and with a relatively low resolution of 1280:1024, the left-hand column feels cramped and inefficient, with everything organized vertically into lists and dropdowns. You know what I'd like? Being able to net my labels without the nesting being in the label title. I have a Family label, with sub-labels like House, Medical, and so on. These show up in the list of emails as Family/Medical which is a waste of space. true, I might have other medical categories, but if I did I could use color to differentiate them.
- sp332 15y ago
  No, you can drag the cut divider past the label you want to expose, which then leaves all the other (unwanted) ones exposed as well. You can drag the divider up and down to change the number of labels that are shown. You can also drag-and-drop individual labels across the divider to show or hide them. I just tested on FF, Chrome, and IE and it works.
  - anigbrowl 15y ago
    I can do the former, but the latter seems to be broken at present. Might be because I'm in using a dev build with multiple flags enabled ATM though.
- spwmoni 15y ago
  1280x1024 is 5:4. The More You Know ~
  - anigbrowl 15y ago
    Iioa~ Agdur ibw arwo ri rgw eufgr,

TillE 15y ago

> So my comment is now irrelevant. Not at all. It's extremely nonobvious, and had been annoying the hell out of me for weeks. The default behavior is just terrible. If even the computer nerds can't figure out how to configure your interface, you've done something wrong.