I’ll give YOU a good hiding
2nd July 2009 by
Label hiding is my favorite new feature, since it saves me from having to look through labels I rarely use. If I ever need to reach any of my old labels, I just click the “more” link.
I hate it. I create labels for things I regularly want to look at. If a label is rarely used, it’s pointless and I don’t create it. The search is a much better way of finding those sorts of things.
All of these changes also mean the end of Right-side Labels [...] Now that labels aren’t in their own little box and take up much less space, moving them around the screen didn’t seem as important. We realize quite a few of you used and liked Right-side Labels, so if you feel strapped for left nav screen real estate without it, try turning on Right-side Chat in Labs instead.
I don’t use Google Chat, because nobody I know uses Google Chat. It’s completely useless to me. If you want to save me some space, let me switch off Google Chat altogether.
I like labels taking up space. I like labels taking up space because being able to see my labels is useful to me. Hiding them or having them trail off the screen is not useful.
I also liked being able to see my calendar. Which you don’t let me put on the right, and which I now can’t see unless I scroll right down the page past the standard folders, past my labels, past a stupid little pop-up menu I don’t have any use for because all my labels have been set to show.
That screenshot at the top? A big fat block of empty white space. My browser was only set to 1280×1024 for that screenshot. The message list does fill the space, but there’s really no need: none of the subject headers currently displayed in All Mail occupy more than half of it even in this small browser window.
Let me lay the page out how I want, not how you want.
We hope these new changes make labeling even easier and help you stay organized.
I hope you die in a chemical fire.
