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.

Gmail Update

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*).