Saturday, April 17, 2010

Gmail Sign In Screen Should Have More Options

I feel really too happy to see that Gmail has thought of slow connection and they have both HTML basic view and standard view options. I feel proud that Gmail did not forget 100s and 1000s slow connection users. Gmail is intelligent that it starts signing in and it can feel whether line is slow or fast. If speed is slow, it offers this:

Gmail's slow connection option.

But I think, Gmail's login screen should have two options to 'disable labs' and 'load in basic HTML view'. Because, I know my connection is already slow and I want to select that from sign in screen.


Sunday, April 11, 2010

New in Gmail Labs: Nested Labels has problems


Gmail has released a new lab on 8th April 2010 on 'Nested Labels'. I was in need of something like this as I had around 150 labels and it was increasing almost everyday. But the way Gmail lab provided, it was not a good way to me. You can read there original post here New in Labs: Nested Labels and Message Sneak Peek

Gmail has used slashes (/) to make a label the children of another label. Problem is I had several labels/tags with slash already. Gmail could have designed the lab in different way (I mean, without using slash).
Not only that. When I rearranged some of the labels as child, it did not update my filters immediately (where I used those labels) and also did not update filters in my multiple inbox.

It also has problem with not showing parent label. If by mistake your parent label is marked as 'hidden' the children labels are not shown correctly.

Here Parent label 'Goal' is hidden.




You see the output now:


Finally, I wanted a feature like this but somehow this Lab could not satisfy me. :(