On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Fulko Hew fulko.hew@gmail.com wrote:
Can you post some instructions ? (for getting GMail usable again after "New Compose")
Get UAControl from here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/uacontrol/
Once installed, Go to Tools->UAControl Options Click "add new site", type as site mail.google.com and as user-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0)
That will give you Old Compose
Explanation: The Mail.google.com coders couldn't get the "New Compose" to work on IE8, so if Google detects you're using IE8 on GMail, it gives you the "Old Compose".
UAControl fakes the user agent ONLY for the domains you specify (in this case, mail.google.com).
It will, of course, only work for as long as google keeps supporting IE8 for GMail, which likely won't be for very long, as they tend to follow Microsoft in their planned obsolescence cycles. :-( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence
...but in the meantime it's a good stopgap solution.
The real solution will be for Google to permanently enable old compose as an option for those of us who prefer it. There's a petition here: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/128/981/668/google-gmail-please-go-back-to-th...
Sadly only 700 signatures so far...
If History is any indication, Google engineers in their Ivory Towers don't give a rat's *ss about what we think... they think they know better...
Oh, and you asked about the other part of the solution, it's the Firefox Stylish extension, grab it from here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/stylish/
It lets you use any of the user developed styles on userstyles.org, including these for GMail: http://userstyles.org/styles/browse?search_terms=gmail
My personal preference (which some surely might find odd but it suits my work style and my eyes are pleased with it) is the black background, green text "terminal" theme (that used to be great as developed by Google, until they turned it fugly with white-on-black text, and white background on compose), http://userstyles.org/styles/71798/gmail-terminal-all-black-background
It looks like this: :) pic.twitter.com/PXMbZ8hU9A http://t.co/PXMbZ8hU9A
Hope this helps you, and some other Fedora users...
FC
On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Fernando Cassia fcassia@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Fulko Hew fulko.hew@gmail.com wrote:
Can you post some instructions ? (for getting GMail usable again after "New Compose")
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That will give you Old Compose
THANK YOU! This has: saved my sanity, fixed my carpel tunnel, and given me back at least 5 minutes of each day that I was recently wasting on the extra mouse clicks and movements that were now needed to accomplish the simplest of tasks.
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...but in the meantime it's a good stopgap solution.
I'll take any form of relief from that new UI, even if its only for a few days. When the first introduced it, I tried it for a few minutes only to conclude how user un-friendly it was. So I immediately turned it off. Unfortunately when they turned it on permanently a few months ago, my productivity dropped, and I was ... extremely frustrated.
The real solution will be for Google to permanently enable old compose as an option for those of us who prefer it. There's a petition here:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/128/981/668/google-gmail-please-go-back-to-th...
Sadly only 700 signatures so far...
I had already signed it back in August (# 413) But like you said, Google won't listen, and we'll probably never get a usable UI back.
On 11/23/2013 09:13 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Fulko Hew <fulko.hew@gmail.com mailto:fulko.hew@gmail.com> wrote:
Can you post some instructions ? (for getting GMail usable again after "New Compose")Get UAControl from here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/uacontrol/
Once installed, Go to Tools->UAControl Options Click "add new site", type as site mail.google.com http://mail.google.com and as user-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0)
That will give you Old Compose
Explanation: The Mail.google.com http://Mail.google.com coders couldn't get the "New Compose" to work on IE8, so if Google detects you're using IE8 on GMail, it gives you the "Old Compose".
UAControl fakes the user agent ONLY for the domains you specify (in this case, mail.google.com http://mail.google.com).
It will, of course, only work for as long as google keeps supporting IE8 for GMail, which likely won't be for very long, as they tend to follow Microsoft in their planned obsolescence cycles. :-( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence
...but in the meantime it's a good stopgap solution.
The real solution will be for Google to permanently enable old compose as an option for those of us who prefer it. There's a petition here: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/128/981/668/google-gmail-please-go-back-to-th...
Sadly only 700 signatures so far...
If History is any indication, Google engineers in their Ivory Towers don't give a rat's *ss about what we think... they think they know better...
Oh, and you asked about the other part of the solution, it's the Firefox Stylish extension, grab it from here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/stylish/
It lets you use any of the user developed styles on userstyles.org http://userstyles.org, including these for GMail: http://userstyles.org/styles/browse?search_terms=gmail
My personal preference (which some surely might find odd but it suits my work style and my eyes are pleased with it) is the black background, green text "terminal" theme (that used to be great as developed by Google, until they turned it fugly with white-on-black text, and white background on compose), http://userstyles.org/styles/71798/gmail-terminal-all-black-background
It looks like this: :) pic.twitter.com/PXMbZ8hU9A http://t.co/PXMbZ8hU9A
Hope this helps you, and some other Fedora users...
FC
-- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act Durante épocas de Engaño Universal, decir la verdad se convierte en un Acto Revolucionario
- George Orwell
Wow!....some of those look great! And while I tend to stick to my tried & true Thunderbird for emailing.....my younger brother is the "web mail King"!...he's gonna love this info! thanks so much!!
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