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- Get a 1920x1080 monitor. No, really. Decent ones are cheap and awesome. That said, sure, GMail could support other resolutions better. I have to make my w

- Get a 1920x1080 monitor. No, really. Decent ones are cheap and awesome. That said, sure, GMail could support other resolutions better. I have to make my window tiny in order to make Reply remotely unusable - what's your problem with it? - I have the "Undo Send" Labs features enabled, so I can undo a lot more than your unintentional sends. I can undo my intentional but ill-considered sends, too. - I can go to Google and search, "When is my next flight" and see (based on my GMail mail confirmation message from the airline) when it is. That's awesome. Better, that integrates with Google Now on my phone. I don't even have to SEARCH, and I see when my flight is, what terminal, what gate, whether it's delayed. I hate to ask, but what browser are you using to access GMail?

babuskov 13y ago
- I cannot get 1920x1080 monitor on a laptop. It would defeat the purpose. My problem is this: http://backwardcompatible.net/images/gmail.png http://backwardcompatible.net/images/gmail.png * top posting is useless when you have long e-mail with 6-10 points to address in it. * being able to see 7 lines at a time is my real problem * the other real problem is when I have a 100-line email with 10 points to address in it and 10th point ends on line 34, I want to be able to easily cut the remaining 66 lines that come before the signature. I know that people using GMail won't see them anyway, but there are other people not using Google Mail and they will have to look through 66 lines to see if I replied to something else as well. There is no way to simply select those 66 lines and cut them. If I press shift+end, it selects to the end of the line. If I press shift+PageDown it scrolls the GMail page in the browser down, and I also lose sight of the cursor. Selecting it with mouse is also not straightforward, because of some weird scrolling. The text entry box is simply too small. They shouldn't have tried to fix something that was working perfectly. I understand Google engineers are not using Firefox and they are not replying to people who use products other than GMail and they have large screens. That is precisely why they lost sight of UX issues their users have. They believe everyone uses Google products only, and maybe they just don't care about those that don't, I really don't know. - I don't want to have Undo Send. I don't want to wait when I send an e-mail. I don't have time for that. - So, when you are searching for next flight, you should open GMail. I thought it should be used for e-mail, not search. ;) - Firefox. Are you implying that I should only use Chrome and GMail is not usable from other browsers?
- tr4656 13y ago
  With high density displays these days, 1080p on a 13" laptop or other smaller laptops is possible
  - jarek 13y ago
    It might be possible, but sadly it's rarely been done at any reasonable screen quality. And it seems like an overkill to choose a laptop based on its resolution when you could just have the app not waste space instead.
    - VikingCoder 13y ago
      The Chrome Pixel has a 12.85" display at 2560 x 1700. We did chose laptops based on their resolutions. Otherwise, you'd still be using an 80x24 character display monitor. Like this bad boy: http://craphound.com/images/compaqmmex.jpg http://craphound.com/images/compaqmmex.jpg
      - jarek 13y ago
        Yes, and the Pixel and a handful of laptops from Asus and Samsung are the only 1080 px or higher small laptop options around. The mainstream has stagnated around 700-800 px for 12-13" for over a decade now, and when someone puts 900 vertical pixels in a sub-14" laptop it's still out of the ordinary. We did move up since the Portable in 1983, but we haven't advanced much past the X21 in 2001.
- porpoisemonkey 13y ago
  There's a feature in Gmail labs called "Quote Selected Text" that can be used to cut the remaining 66 lines You can enable it through the Gmail settings > Labs > "Quote Selected Text", highlight the lines you want to respond to in your email and press the 'r' key to open a reply with only the highlighted part quoted. http://email.about.com/od/gmailtips/qt/et_quote_select.htm http://email.about.com/od/gmailtips/qt/et_quote_select.htm
- sp332 13y ago

babuskov 13y ago

- I cannot get 1920x1080 monitor on a laptop. It would defeat the purpose. My problem is this: http://backwardcompatible.net/images/gmail.png http://backwardcompatible.net/images/gmail.png * top posting is useless when you have long e-mail with 6-10 points to address in it. * being able to see 7 lines at a time is my real problem * the other real problem is when I have a 100-line email with 10 points to address in it and 10th point ends on line 34, I want to be able to easily cut the remaining 66 lines that come before the signature. I know that people using GMail won't see them anyway, but there are other people not using Google Mail and they will have to look through 66 lines to see if I replied to something else as well. There is no way to simply select those 66 lines and cut them. If I press shift+end, it selects to the end of the line. If I press shift+PageDown it scrolls the GMail page in the browser down, and I also lose sight of the cursor. Selecting it with mouse is also not straightforward, because of some weird scrolling. The text entry box is simply too small. They shouldn't have tried to fix something that was working perfectly. I understand Google engineers are not using Firefox and they are not replying to people who use products other than GMail and they have large screens. That is precisely why they lost sight of UX issues their users have. They believe everyone uses Google products only, and maybe they just don't care about those that don't, I really don't know. - I don't want to have Undo Send. I don't want to wait when I send an e-mail. I don't have time for that. - So, when you are searching for next flight, you should open GMail. I thought it should be used for e-mail, not search. ;) - Firefox. Are you implying that I should only use Chrome and GMail is not usable from other browsers?

tr4656 13y ago
With high density displays these days, 1080p on a 13" laptop or other smaller laptops is possible
- jarek 13y ago
  It might be possible, but sadly it's rarely been done at any reasonable screen quality. And it seems like an overkill to choose a laptop based on its resolution when you could just have the app not waste space instead.
  - VikingCoder 13y ago
    The Chrome Pixel has a 12.85" display at 2560 x 1700. We did chose laptops based on their resolutions. Otherwise, you'd still be using an 80x24 character display monitor. Like this bad boy: http://craphound.com/images/compaqmmex.jpg http://craphound.com/images/compaqmmex.jpg
    - jarek 13y ago
      Yes, and the Pixel and a handful of laptops from Asus and Samsung are the only 1080 px or higher small laptop options around. The mainstream has stagnated around 700-800 px for 12-13" for over a decade now, and when someone puts 900 vertical pixels in a sub-14" laptop it's still out of the ordinary. We did move up since the Portable in 1983, but we haven't advanced much past the X21 in 2001.
porpoisemonkey 13y ago
There's a feature in Gmail labs called "Quote Selected Text" that can be used to cut the remaining 66 lines You can enable it through the Gmail settings > Labs > "Quote Selected Text", highlight the lines you want to respond to in your email and press the 'r' key to open a reply with only the highlighted part quoted. http://email.about.com/od/gmailtips/qt/et_quote_select.htm http://email.about.com/od/gmailtips/qt/et_quote_select.htm
sp332 13y ago