New compose Pop-up window in Gmail has been made as default one by Google. Back in October 2012 Gmail asked you to try their new Compose experience for sending messages. Have you liked it? do you like it or not Gmail team has made it default for everyone now. Over the next few days you won’t be able to switch back to old compose and you have to live with new Compose window that appears on right-side once opened.
Gmail’s Old Compose going away very soon, start getting used to New compose
Google says their redesigned new compose is simple, fast and Powerful with streamlined look lets you check emails while you’re typing and also allows to send two messages at once.
This new compose supports pop-out replies and lets you insert large files from Google drive up to 10 GB as traditional attachments. You can also label and star when composing and using canned Reponses tab.
So have you adopted to New compose? do you like it being made as default? are you missing old compose which likely will not come back? what you like and don’t like in new compose? share your thoughts with us in comments.
While I have been using it for a while, I am not particularly fond of the new compose UI. :-(
It seems a bit too much ‘txt-message/chat’ and not enough ‘hey I’m composing an email’.
What are your thoughts?
I’ve mixed feelings for both, but I’ve no complaints on new compose UI. We need to understand that they’ve made new compose experience multitasking one and more useful with addition of new features.
This new feature definitely sucks. It’s not anything more than an annoying pop up window. The old interface was better.
I tried it when it first came out, and then backtracked until they pushed it out a couple of days ago.
I love the simpler UI, much like I love the newer gmail IOS interface.
My biggest gripe with the web version is that coolhardware mentioned – it is not friendly to those of us who need to write long messages, with paragraphs and such. The biggest issue is the positioning of the (small) compose window in the lower corner of the screen. This presents problems for those of us with large displays – our heads are now torqued to the side every time we want to send an email. Then, if your email is long…well you can’t see all of it. This has always been somewhat of a problem with gmail. It’s just worse now. You can do shift-c to compose, which brings a new window up in the centre of the screen, but then your compose window disappears if you want to use anything else on the web.
I’m a bit worried about the message I got with my latest email. When I tried to attach a document a pop up appeared urging me to use Google Drive to do that. I think a mandatory link through Drive may…drive me away from the program. Hopefully they won’t take that route.
Thanks for knowing all issues and annoyances you’re facing with Gmail new compose window.