New Gmail Interface Leaks in Video
Google accidentally (or maybe not) published a video on the company's official YouTube video channel that introduced the new Gmail interface.
The video has been set to private shortly thereafter but viewers were quick enough to save it and re-publish it on YouTube.
The video announcement highlights many upcoming Gmail design changes and features.
This includes a new look and feel that looks very similar to the Google Plus interface, and other new features like Gmail's ability to adapt automatically to the windows size in which it is displayed.
Users who resize the Gmail window will notice that the relevant information, for instance the sender, subject and date of each email in the inbox, are always visible on screen.
The options button at the top right leads to additional display density options. The default comfortable setting uses big margins and whitespace areas between posts which users can reduce by switching to the cozy or compact display density options.
Another new feature is the slider that allows users to increase or decrease the label or chat area on the left sidebar.
Google has uploaded new high resolution themes that users can switch to.
Conversations have been redesigned to improve readability. You will also notice that profile pictures have been added if available.
Google has updated search as well. If you are a Gmail user you know that search consists of just a single form that you can use to search.
The new search comes with filters that include from, to and subjects as well as words, attachments and date fields which looks similar to the menu that is displayed when you set up filters on Gmail.
Filters can now also be created right from the search box. You can see the video with all the changes discussed in this news article below.
There is no official word yet on the availability of the new features but it is likely that they will be rolled out soon.
I'm not really affected by the changes as I'm using Thunderbird as my main email client. If you are a Gmail web interface user, what's your take on the changes announced in the video? (via)
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You said that Outlook isn’t your main email client, so which is your main one?
I think its thunderbird
It is Mozilla Thunderbird.
Awesome! This actually solved my problem… what a stupid bug.
If this is the same bug that I’ve encountered, there may be another fix: (1) hover over open Outlook item in Taskbar, cursor up to hover over Outlook window item, and right-click; (2) this should give you Restore / Move / Size / Minimize / Maximize — choose Move or Size; (3) use your cursor keys, going arbitrarily N/S/E/W, to try to move or size the Outlook window back into view. Basically, the app behaves as though it were open in a 0x0 window, or at a location that’s offscreen, and this will frequently work to resize and/or move the window. Don’t forget to close while resized/moved, so that Outlook remembers the size/position for next time.
THANK YOU Claude!!! I could get the main window to launch but could not get any other message window to show on the desktop. You are my hero!!!!
Solved my issue! 6 years later and this is still problem…
Fantastic. Thank you. Size did the trick.
This solved my Outlook problem, too. Thank you. :)
Thank you so much, this started happening to me today and was causing big problems. You are a life saver, I hope I can help you in some way some day.
You are a god – thank you!
thanks a lot…. work like charm.. :-)
Yah…thanks Claude. I’ve been having the same problem and tried all the suggestions…your solution was the answer. It had resized itself to a 0/0 box. Cheers
Excellent post. This had me baffled even trying to accurately describe the problem. This fixed it for me.
Thank you
Thanks a lot for the article. Don’t know why it happenend, don’t know how it got fixed, but it was really annoying and now it works :-)
Thanks a lot. I was facing this issue from past 3 week. I tried everything but no resolution. The issue was happening intermittently and mainly when I was changing the display of screen ( as i use 2 monitors). The only option i had was to do system restore. But thanks to you.
I’ve been tried to sole this problem for 12hours. Your comment about changing the display of screen helped me a lot!! Thanks!!
Thank you…don’t know why this happened but your instructions helped me fix it. Running Windows 10 and office pro 2007
Great tip! Thanks!
Worked for me, too – thank you!!!
It’s Worked for me, too
thank you very much!
I had a similar issue with Outlook 2013 on Windows 10 and this helped me to fix it. Thank you very much!
Thank you so much. Solved!
Considering you published this in 2012, incredible not been debugged by Microsoft.
Thank you again. M
This problem was faced by only one user logging to TS 2008 r2 using outlook 2010.The issue was resolved.
Thanks.
Great tip. Thank you!!!! If it helps, I had to use the Control Key and the arrow keys at the same time to bring my window back into view. Worked like a charm.
Thank you, this worked !!!!
Man, you are a fucking god. Thanks a lot, what an annoying bug!!
Awesome, this post solved the issue. Many thanks!