Gmail Interface Adopts Drag and Drop
Gmail Interface Adopts Drag and Drop
Posted 07/02/2009 at 12:07pm
| by Andy Salisbury
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Google recently introduced another tweak to their Gmail interface, allowing users that aren’t quite at home with the labeling system to use them as folders.
With the introduction of drag and drop to Gmail, your list of labels will move from the lower left-hand corner to the upper left-hand corner, directly underneath “Inbox” and “Sent Mail.” Google hopes that this will allow users see them more like traditional folders.
Drag and drop comes into play with the use of the labels themselves. Instead of adding tags to each individual message, you’ll instead be able to drag and drop your messages into the label of your choosing.
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Scapegoat
July 02, 2009 at 12:23pm
I'm glad they're finally allowing you to move mail out of the inbox. And what better a way to accomplish that than to drag and drop? Way cool, and I have yet to find a more intuitive email service.
jwalch.hawk
July 02, 2009 at 1:27pm
Finally allowing you to move mail out of the inbox? As if you couldn't do this before? You just applied whatever labels you wanted and hit the magical "Archive" button... This moved the e-mail out of the inbox. Basically the inbox is/was the default label for all incoming messages, and then that archive button is/was the remove label functionality for the inbox label.
I'm actually a little dumbfounded by why Google would do this. A big reason I preferred GMail way back around the time I got started using it was that labels are fundamentally different than folders. In my (and obviously Google's, since they employed the system) opinion, it's a better system. I don't understand why they would try to pretend that it's like folders when it isn't - and that's a good thing.
SEALBoy
July 02, 2009 at 5:12pm
This is just an easier way to apply labels. Just because you can drag labels onto messages doesn't change the fact that they are, in fact, labels.
jwalch.hawk
July 04, 2009 at 3:00pm
I was focusing on the dragging messages into labels part. They are ultimately still labels, but in that sense they're basically being used as folders (ie, you can only drag into a single target).
Scapegoat
July 02, 2009 at 12:23pm
I'm glad they're finally allowing you to move mail out of the inbox. And what better a way to accomplish that than to drag and drop? Way cool, and I have yet to find a more intuitive email service.
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