The new Gmail toolbar (top) versus the old Gmail toolbar (bottom):
Maybe it's just me,* but sometimes words are just plain better than icons. I think this is particularly so in an application that has keyboard shortcuts: the words serve as a mnemonic. And note also how the old toolbar takes up less space, despite having two more buttons.
I'm betting that had I not put the old toolbar under the new one, it would have taken you considerably longer to puzzle out what the buttons in the top one do.
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I think you're just old, with the usual attendant infirmities. Go back to your Yahtzee game. :-)
Yeah, that possibility cannot be discounted.
Still, doesn't experience count for anything anymore, you young whippersnapper?
And even if my gripes are due solely to my curmudgeon onset syndrome, can't we agree that the US is getting older as a country, and that we olds have to be catered to at least a little bit by the youngs? I mean, when you think of all we've left them …
Best review your Soylent Green - the young will eat the old. That is our only viable economic solution.
Jeez, when I think of everything we've actually left them saddled with, it's hard to think they wouldn't be well within their rights to do exactly that.
(That's what Obama's secret FEMA camps are for, anyway, right? So, moot point.)
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