Gmail has had an update, which doesn’t seem to have done a whole lot. They’ve added a Google Talk advert on the left under the menu & renamed the ‘Move to trash’ drop-down menu item to ‘Delete’.
Also it seems that now, when you’ve ticked a mail item, the drop-down menu only displays the options available, rather than just disabling the ones that you can’t use (eg. If a mail item doesn’t have a star the “remove star” option isn’t there, whereas before is was just greyed out). If you have no item selected, all the options are in the menu, greyed out.
I know Google likes to roll this stuff out incrementally, so is anyone else seeing this?
I understand the removing of the disabled menu options, it un-clutters the interface, but as for the renaming of ‘Move to trash’, it also begs the question "Why?" I know some people found having to select a menu item rather than clicking a button annoying, and I imagine that Google is aware of this, but how does renaming the menu option help? I just found it momentarily disorienting as I searched for ‘Move to trash’ and couldn’t find it. (Only a brief moment mind you 
) I can imagine how less tech-savvy users are coping (remembers back to ISP help desk days. *shudder*).
Same minor updates here. Also, there was a link for a while telling me they now scan attachments for viruses.
The other new feature, I just noticed, is “Web Clips” at the top of the blue pane. Looks like you can add your own RSS feeds, with items randomly? appearing. Also will show sponsored links.
See more here: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?ctx=%67mail&hl=en&answer=18219
I heard that that was coming, but I’m still not seeing that one in my inbox. I must be on a different server to you.
Also I noted that they’ve removed the google talk promo and renamed trash ‘Deleted Items’ and renamed the ‘Delete’ menu item to ‘Move to Deleted Items’.
hmmm… I’ve still got the Talk promo, still got Trash and “Delete” menu itm.
Sorry for all the comments… Trash vs Deleted Items changes if you change language from English US to English UK. I changed to English US to get the option to use additional email addresses with Gmail.
Ahh, that would be it. Typical, roll stuff out to the US 1st!
I’m changing back to US, I want the bonus features, I can put up with the bad spelling
Same minor updates here. Also, there was a link for a while telling me they now scan attachments for viruses.
The other new feature, I just noticed, is “Web Clips” at the top of the blue pane. Looks like you can add your own RSS feeds, with items randomly? appearing. Also will show sponsored links.See more here: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?ct…
I heard that that was coming, but I’m still not seeing that one in my inbox. I must be on a different server to you. Also I noted that they’ve removed the google talk promo and renamed trash ‘Deleted Items’ and renamed the ‘Delete’ menu item to ‘Move to Deleted Items’.
hmmm… I’ve still got the Talk promo, still got Trash and “Delete” menu itm.
Sorry for all the comments… Trash vs Deleted Items changes if you change language from English US to English UK. I changed to English US to get the option to use additional email addresses with Gmail.
Ahh, that would be it. Typical, roll stuff out to the US 1st!I’m changing back to US, I want the bonus features, I can put up with the bad spelling