Google improvement of the month: MOAR screen space

dkf

No company has ever done anything which made no sense at all.

Of course not! If that were to happen, the company would be instantly consumed by its competitors, as if it had never been.

@TDWTF123 said:

@flabdablet said:
How the hell is anybody supposed to feel like they discovered something if it's already right there in plain view?
'In plain view' has a very mutable meaning when it comes to UI. We've trained all the users to filter out a lot of what comes up on screen - cf. people clicking 'ok' to everything that pops up - so it's perfectly possible to trigger the 'ignore this' filters despite being right in the middle of the screen.
As it happens, I'm pretty sure that's what underpins Google's decision. If you have more than one or two incomprehensible icons in one place, it's a cue for ordinary users to ignore that area of the screen as 'something technical'. Google appear to have realised that and tried to minimise the effect. (MS has done something similar with the system tray in recent versions of Windows, for another example.)

You know what? Dispite my initial aversion, I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt.

The complete disregard for what resolution I want is still extremely annoying (I hypothesize this is a way they have of minimizing their traffic). But before, I had to hunt for what grey button to press among the other grey buttons on a darker grey background. Now I press the easily recognisable cog icon and then have a decently-sized popup to operate on. And I bet many people who didn't know they could turn off annotations now have learned they can.

So you win this round, Google. But I still want my Gmail compose window space back.

@Zecc said:

~~Dispite~~ Despite

Gordon Bennett!, why do I always spell that wrong?

ender

I just noticed that the new improved youtube UI presents a scrollbar when there's more than 4 or 5 resolutions to choose from - and ignores mousewheel over the drop-down.

dhromed

@ender said:

a scrollbar when there's more than 4 or 5 resolutions to choose from

No repro. 7 options here.

@dhromed said:

No repro. 7 options here.

That video is using the old UI still.

dhromed

@Zecc said:

That video is using the old UI still.

What do you mean? It's using the new popup that we've been discussing all along.

You mean there's an even newer-new UI that was implemented during the course of this thread that puts all options in the popup?

It seems we are on different internets:

Ok, it looks like — at least in this computer — all the videos are using the old U.

Except if I go incognito, in which case the same video then shows the new UI. I tried simply logging out and it doesn't make a difference. Only going incognito.

I have no idea what's going on, but I don't currently have the time to figure it out.

anonymous235

@Zecc said:

Ok, it looks like — at least in this computer — all the videos are using the old U.
Except if I go incognito, in which case the same video then shows the new UI. I tried simply logging out and it doesn't make a difference. Only going incognito.
I have no idea what's going on, but I don't currently have the time to figure it out.

One of your cookies holds the secret to recovering old Google UIs. Treasure it well, it might be worth thousands in the future.

dhromed

@anonymous235 said:

One of your cookies holds the secret to recovering old Google UIs.

nomnomnomnom

mngnom sorry what did you say anything?

DaveK1

@Zecc said:

@Zecc said:
~~Dispite~~ Despite
Gordon Bennett!, why do I always spell that wrong?

Because you are two spiteful.

antiquarian

@DaveK said:

@Zecc said:
@Zecc said:
~~Dispite~~ Despite
Gordon Bennett!, why do I always spell that wrong?
Because you are two spiteful.

I sea what you did there.

Lorne Kates

@DaveK said:

@PedanticCurmudgeon said:
Because you are two spiteful.
I sea what you did there.

I don't. What did he do their?

@Lorne Kates said:

@DaveK said:

@PedanticCurmudgeon said:
Because you are two spiteful.
I sea what you did there.

I don't. What did he do their?

Wow. I had to reed all of your posts twice until I figured out what was going on.

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@Zecc said:

@Lorne Kates said:
@DaveK said:

@PedanticCurmudgeon said:
Because you are two spiteful.
I sea what you did there.

I don't. What did he do their?
Wow. I had to reed all of your posts twice until I figured out what was going on.

Oh deer.

DaveK1

@joe.edwards said:

@Zecc said:
@Lorne Kates said:
@PedanticCurmudgeon said:
@DaveK said:

Because you are two spiteful.
I sea what you did there.
I don't. What did he do their?
Wow. I had to reed all of your posts twice until I figured out what was going on.

Oh deer.

Fixed that four ewe.

dhromed

@DaveK said:

@joe.edwards said:
@Zecc said:
@Lorne Kates said:
@PedanticCurmudgeon said:
@DaveK said:

Because you are two spiteful.
I sea what you did there.
I don't. What did he do their?
Wow. I had to reed all of your posts twice until I figured out what was going on.

Oh deer.
Fixed that four ewe.

I can't take much moor of this.

dkf

@dhromed said:

@DaveK said:
@joe.edwards said:
@Zecc said:
@Lorne Kates said:
@PedanticCurmudgeon said:
@DaveK said:
Because you are two spiteful.
I sea what you did there.
I don't. What did he do their?
Wow. I had to reed all of your posts twice until I figured out what was going on.
Oh deer.
Fixed that four ewe.
I can't take much moor of this.

Aye cant eye-fur.

ratchet_freak

@dkf said:

@dhromed said:
@DaveK said:
@joe.edwards said:
@Zecc said:
@Lorne Kates said:
@PedanticCurmudgeon said:
@DaveK said:
Because you are two spiteful.
I sea what you did there.
I don't. What did he do their?
Wow. I had to reed all of your posts twice until I figured out what was going on.
Oh deer.
Fixed that four ewe.
I can't take much moor of this.
Aye cant eye-fur.

now sea hear this cant con-tin-ewe four nudge moor Thai-m

flabdablet

@ratchet freak said:

@dkf said:
@dhromed said:
@DaveK said:
@joe.edwards said:
@Zecc said:
@Lorne Kates said:
@PedanticCurmudgeon said:
@DaveK said:
Because you are two spiteful.
I sea what you did there.
I don't. What did he do their?
Wow. I had to reed all of your posts twice until I figured out what was going on.
Oh deer.
Fixed that four ewe.
I can't take much moor of this.
Aye cant eye-fur.
now sea hear this cant con-tin-ewe four nudge moor Thai-m

Knot sew chore a bad debt.

dhromed

@flabdablet said:

Knot sew chore a bad debt.

ICANNt fucking read this.

flabdablet

@dhromed said:

@flabdablet said:
Knot sew chore a bad debt.
ICANNt fucking read this.

IBM pathetic: Eiffel European.

The worst part is that you can't just slap a user style to fix Gmail's compose window because the style is inline.

YES I'M STILL MAD !

No I haven't bothered to "send feedback" yet.

Lorne Kates

@Zecc said:

The worst part is that you can't just slap a user style to fix Gmail's compose window because the style is inline.
YES I'M STILL MAD !

This mildly unfucks it. I was going to write a Greasemonkey script to handle it, but I still have PTSD from looking at View Source.

@some See Ass Ass said:

.aSt
{
width:100% !important;
height:100% !important;
left:0px !important;
margin:0 0 !important;
top: 0px !important;
}

@Zecc said:

No I haven't bothered to "send feedback" yet.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA! Feedback. Hehehehe-- hehe -- he. {pause, thinks about Google "feedback"} BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Edit: Weird formatting from pasting. Sorry, fixed.

@Lorne Kates said:

I still have PTSD from looking at View Source.

Yeah, that's what happened to me before I made that previous post.

Why choose to use divs instead of tables for layout when you can have both‽

dhromed

@Zecc said:

because the style is inline.

!important suffixes will override point styles.

Fixed, apparently.

the button is there again

Sorry, my OS doesn't capture the cursor on screenshots.

dhromed

@anonymous234 said:

Fixed, apparently.

sweet