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A particular nit: It's harder to change which e-mail address I'm sending from. Old way: use drop down list to select the from address I want. New way: click To
by mooism2 14y ago
A particular nit: It's harder to change which e-mail address I'm sending from. Old way: use drop down list to select the from address I want. New way: click To field. From address drop down list magically appears. Use drop down list to select from address I want. This was so intuitive I had to look it up in the online help.
More generally, I don't like that there's a window within my Gmail tab. I don't like being invited to mess around with window-sizing and -placement instead of just being left to write my e-mail. It reminds me of MDI, but without the saving grace of being able to maximise the child window. Why have I got to use a horrible little subwindow instead of something closer to full width?
I can't see how it's supposed to be an improvement. What does it do better than the old way?
- asafira 14y agoI think I'm missing something --- when I click "compose", the window I get allows me to change my sending e-mail address with a dropdown right away. Right?
- mooism2 14y agoI usually don't remember to change the From address until I've started writing the text of the e-mail --- the From address dropdown has vanished by then.
- asafira 14y agoYeah, good call --- I agree that's a little too opaque. Maybe a typical user has only 1 e-mail address, but I am sure there is a huge population of users otherwise. Plenty of less tech-savy friends of mine have a couple of e-mail addresses configured in gmail.