Losing the fixed-width font is annoying to me. I frequently have code or logs in emails, and these are horrible to read in a variable width font because columns don't align, and ^^^ indicators don't line up. I'm curious why this was abandoned.
Gmail is really interesting. I'm a big free-software fan - I really dislike running non-free stuff on my own computer. Not so much for RMS reasons, but just because I like the freedom to hack on stuff as I see fit, and partly just to support open source (it has given me <i>so</i> much over the years). I've never had that hangup about online services though, even though logically they're not really that different. And indeed, I switched to Gmail several years ago because their anti-spam was (and still is, I think) way better than what I was able to cobble together with Linux.<p>However, every now and then I'm reminded that in giving up some freedom, you pay a price. I would love to try and hack in a feature to Gmail that makes it permanently associate certain From email adddresses with people. For instance, if I write someone and set the From to @dedasys.com, I want future email with that person to always use that address. If I use the @apache.org address, then that should be used in the future, unless I change it. I can't implement this, though, as far as I know.
R.I.P. Location in Signature. Was an interesting feature for those that traveled a lot (and thus not require us to explain any long delays in email reply time). Although I did forget about it from time to time. Boy did she not like seeing "Sent from Las Vegas, NV, United States" in my sig..
No wonder fixed-width font goes away due to not being used. Why did they have to insist on setting the message's font to "Courier New, Courier, fixed" instead of just fixed?<p>Courier is even worse than the proportional standard. Why not respect the setting that was defined in the browser?
Noticed my 'go to label' shortcut got updated. I like the new interface much more than what it used to be, but am not a fan of the scroll area jumping around.<p>The 'gl' (go label) shortcut used to display an auto-complete text box in the center of your gmail window to enter a label, now 'gl' jumps to the search box and automatically prepends 'label:' to the query. It makes much more sense to do it in the search box, but doesn't feel as fluid as the old one.
Anybody else sad to see muzzle go? I think rolling over contacts in the gchat pane in order to see their status messages is perfect. Now I will only be able to see half as many contact names...
I can't believe they're retiring "random signature" I so <i>thought</i> about using it. I could have had a different funny quote in my signature for every email I sent.