<font face="courier new,monospace"><br></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Fernando Cassia <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fcassia@gmail.com" target="_blank">fcassia@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Fulko Hew <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fulko.hew@gmail.com" target="_blank">fulko.hew@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Can you post some instructions ? (for getting GMail usable again after "New Compose")<br></blockquote></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>... snip ...<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
That will give you Old Compose<br></blockquote><div><br>THANK YOU!<br>This has: saved my sanity, fixed my carpel tunnel, and given me back at least 5 minutes of each day<br>that I was recently wasting on the extra mouse clicks and movements that were now needed to accomplish<br>
the simplest of tasks.<br> <br>... snip ...<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">...but in the meantime it's a good stopgap solution.<br></blockquote>
<div><br>I'll take any form of relief from that new UI, even if its only for a few days.<br>When the first introduced it, I tried it for a few minutes only to conclude how<br>user un-friendly it was. So I immediately turned it off. Unfortunately when they<br>
turned it on permanently a few months ago, my productivity dropped, and<br>I was ... extremely frustrated. <br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
The real solution will be for Google to permanently enable old compose as an option for those of us who prefer it.<br>
There's a petition here:<br><a href="http://www.thepetitionsite.com/128/981/668/google-gmail-please-go-back-to-the-old-version-of-compose-email/" target="_blank">http://www.thepetitionsite.com/128/981/668/google-gmail-please-go-back-to-the-old-version-of-compose-email/</a><br>
<br>Sadly only 700 signatures so far...<br></blockquote></div><br>I had already signed it back in August (# 413)<br>But like you said, Google won't listen, and we'll probably never get a usable UI back.<br><br>