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Custom themes in Gmail

17 points by cleverjake 14y ago

51Cards 14y ago
Not to disparage this launch at all... a lot of people will love this... but I wish my Inbox was ever that clean to be able to see the picture :)
- mladenkovacevic 14y ago
  Enable priority inbox... then minimize ;)
- look_lookatme 14y ago
  SaneBox[1] has been a game changer for me on this front. I had to change the way I deal with email a bit to conform to their recommended practices, but since then email hasn't been a problem for me at all. [1] https://www.sanebox.com/ https://www.sanebox.com/
cabirum 14y ago
Why, just why.. First they designed the new clean Gmail UI, then allowed people to desecrate it with pictures of their babies?
- cleverjake 14y ago
  WHy is it a problem if it is opt in? People should be able to make their workspace look ugly (or more beautiful) if they choose.
obituary_latte 14y ago
The UI on that page is quite borked[1] for me. Chrome latest on osx. [1]http://imgur.com/a/Tm4p6 http://imgur.com/a/Tm4p6 Also, interestingly, it appears imgur has moved to europe...
vibrunazo 14y ago
Hmm... so many different places to set background images for. Wonder when I'll be able to set a background image for my browser and have that apply as default for any website that doesn't override it. Is that possible with an extension?
- ineedtosleep 14y ago
  Yes. Opera has that functionality built in where you have your personal stylesheet that typically overrides all website stylesheets. I couldn't find any built-in functionality for that on Chrome and Firefox, however, Stylish[1] has been around for a while and offers the functionality in a browser extension. [1] http://userstyles.org/ http://userstyles.org/
  - nightson 14y ago
    You don't need stylish to apply custom CSS in Firefox. userContent.css is suffice. Chrome has something similar.
Stwerp 14y ago
Wow. You can choose between light and dark. This is not a theme, but rather a background you can change. That's it. Want to change the opacity of the overlay? Too bad. Want to customize colors? Too bad. Want a scroll bar that you can see and is not just a gray blob on the side? Too bad.

17 points by cleverjake 14y ago

Not to disparage this launch at all... a lot of people will love this... but I wish my Inbox was ever that clean to be able to see the picture :)

mladenkovacevic 14y ago
Enable priority inbox... then minimize ;)
look_lookatme 14y ago
SaneBox[1] has been a game changer for me on this front. I had to change the way I deal with email a bit to conform to their recommended practices, but since then email hasn't been a problem for me at all. [1] https://www.sanebox.com/ https://www.sanebox.com/

cabirum 14y ago

Why, just why.. First they designed the new clean Gmail UI, then allowed people to desecrate it with pictures of their babies?

cleverjake 14y ago
WHy is it a problem if it is opt in? People should be able to make their workspace look ugly (or more beautiful) if they choose.

obituary_latte 14y ago

The UI on that page is quite borked[1] for me. Chrome latest on osx. [1]http://imgur.com/a/Tm4p6 http://imgur.com/a/Tm4p6 Also, interestingly, it appears imgur has moved to europe...

vibrunazo 14y ago

Hmm... so many different places to set background images for. Wonder when I'll be able to set a background image for my browser and have that apply as default for any website that doesn't override it. Is that possible with an extension?

ineedtosleep 14y ago
Yes. Opera has that functionality built in where you have your personal stylesheet that typically overrides all website stylesheets. I couldn't find any built-in functionality for that on Chrome and Firefox, however, Stylish[1] has been around for a while and offers the functionality in a browser extension. [1] http://userstyles.org/ http://userstyles.org/
- nightson 14y ago
  You don't need stylish to apply custom CSS in Firefox. userContent.css is suffice. Chrome has something similar.

Stwerp 14y ago

Wow. You can choose between light and dark. This is not a theme, but rather a background you can change. That's it. Want to change the opacity of the overlay? Too bad. Want to customize colors? Too bad. Want a scroll bar that you can see and is not just a gray blob on the side? Too bad.