Comments on: Google Enhances Gmail Labeling With Drag And Drop Feature, Retires Right-Side Labels

By: Not Invented Here » Blog Archive » Gmail Labels Fail

Not Invented Here » Blog Archive » Gmail Labels Fail — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:31:18 +0000

[...] On July 1st, Gmail launched a revised version of their label system. Several users have complained about it. Myself included. [...]

By: Jamie

Jamie — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:26:19 +0000

I find it really annoying that Google are prioritizing such stupid gimmicky features like this above important issues like lack of rich text signatures. I think they need to get their priorities right. This is supposed to be a business-ready product.

By: MeOhMy

MeOhMy — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:21:05 +0000

Yeah… same with Hotmail… drag and drop was normal… but well it’s Google… so it is SPECIAL :-p

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Thursday Dose of social media: How to get retweeted | BeatBlogging.Org — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:43:36 +0000

[...] Google enhances Gmail labeling with drag and drop feature, retires right-side labels — I’m on the record as saying that Gmail is the best e-mail solution around, especially for work. It’s powerful search features alone make it great, but Google keeps improving Gmail, making it even more irresistible for content producers: Of the more innovative features that has been added is the ability to drag and drop messages into labels, just like you can with folders. You can also drag labels onto messages too. It’s also possible to drag labels into the “more” menu to hide them, making it easier to change labels than going to the Settings function. This feature is huge for those people who complain about Gmail not having some of the drag and drop features of Outlook. [...]

By: Anurag

Anurag — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:57:05 +0000

Nice article. One thing you forgot to mention is perhaps how other web-email providers like Yahoo! provides the same feature since before 2007. Not even one sarcastic remark! Totally biased towards Google.

Also, perhaps you haven’t used the drag-drop in Yahoo! mail, its far more easier to operate than to pin-point your mouse on that small handle in front of the email that Gmail provides.

How much did Google pay you to exclude all this?

By: Titus

Titus — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:23:01 +0000

What I love is how the new version makes you open up your list every time you want to look at a new label (assuming it isn’t in your “most used” list). Open up label ABC and check the new mail there, then you have to open up the entire label list again and scroll to XYZ and click on that. Heaven forbid you want to look at another label that isn’t in your “most used” list or you have to open it all up and scroll again.

Ugh. Really poorly designed.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:11:01 +0000

I didn’t have the new labels activated either and I just went into Lab settings, toggles a couple things, saved and went back to inbox and the new Labels system appeared. Works great. Anyone know if there’s a way to COPY-drag a conversation into a label instead of just Moving it?

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:50:00 +0000

I’ve never understood this. Why in chat are your friends that are not available listed before those that are just idling? Wouldn’t you want to message someone that might not be looking at their gmail tab before someone that has explicitly changed there status to “busy” (aka don’t bother me)?

By: yeahmetoo

yeahmetoo — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:20:47 +0000

Dont *remove* features, i have to drag my mouse to the left of the screen every time. I’m right-handed like most and the right side labels feature was so cool. I keep my Ubuntu menu on the right side (panels+shortcuts, right-click+Move) and use keyboard shortcuts wherever possible.

Gmail team, at least announce that you will restore right-side labels if all you want to do is make d-n-d work for right-side too. I know it might be difficult to build on another person’s work, but at office, I have to fix other people’s mistakes from my time – to the extent of days, sometimes (the joys of helpdesk ).
So it’s not out-of-the-world to support existing features.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:06:42 +0000

Wow. The more I [try to] use them, the less I like them. Bring back left and right sided labels. Make this new variation an option.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:24:46 +0000

Count me amongst those who are not fans of this move. I didn’t even make use of right sided labels, I actually used the left side ones and found them to be great. Being able to hide all my labels when I needed to, and see all of them when I wanted to was great. I get mail that goes to most of my labels via filters every day and I like having the ability to see the entire list with a click of the button, while still being able to see Chat or my Calendar. Drag and drop was a nice step forward, but the new inherent layout is crap.

By: matt

matt — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:16:11 +0000

They retired the default “Reply All” function from labs, too. SO sad.

By: mesuth

mesuth — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:58:02 +0000

There must be an option to show labels with unread messages before the remaining labels.

By: Zeke

Zeke — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:11:50 +0000

it is so difficult to use, you have to precisely put the mouse over there to move, stupid.

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GoolgeがGmailのラベル機能を強化してドラッグ＆ドロップが可能に — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:34 +0000

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By: Gmail Finally Ends the Folder vs. Label War – What’s Next? Find the Answer Here. | CloudAve

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:42:10 +0000

[...] Google Enhances Gmail Labeling With Drag And Drop Feature, Retires Right-Side Labels [...]

By: chris

chris — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:48:03 +0000

It would be nice if Google sent me an email (or a gmail) to let me know of these changes before they do them!

By: jgf

jgf — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:29:14 +0000

Please bring back the right side labels!!!

By: passerby

passerby — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:55:42 +0000

Brendan Miller

Try Yahoo? It has real folders and subfolders instead of labels, and it supports drag-and-drop.

By: M

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:45:33 +0000

Great News! You can read only unead emails.
Enable Quick Links in labs.
Go back to gmail and search is:unread
After the search, cick add quick link on the left side in the Quick Links box.
Name is Unread Emails and now you can easily view all unread emails.

By: Joshua Shear

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:45:29 +0000

I think it’s BS. Some of the new features are absolutely wonderful, but i want to be able to have my full list of labels on the right. Why NOT?

By: Lee McFatridge

Lee McFatridge — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:43:26 +0000

Yes…please bring right-side labels back.

By: amdou

amdou — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:20:56 +0000

Poll: For Right side http://poll.fm/11jas

By: geek@work

geek@work — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:50:24 +0000

Damn, no right side and folders4gmail is broken. This sucks big time as I’ve got over 100 nested folders and looking in ‘more’ means a lot of scrolling.

By: Nivco

Nivco — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:30:13 +0000

Same here