Hi, my name is Mark Jen. I work for Plaxo. I used to work for Google and before that, I worked for Microsoft. The opinions expressed here are my personal opinions. Content published here is not read or approved by Plaxo before it is posted and do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of Plaxo. No warranties or other guarantees will be offered as to the quality of the opinions or anything else offered here. Enjoy!
January 25th, 2006 at 6:27 pm
Applause. It’s amazing how they were re-inventing the delete metaphor by having the ‘move to trash’ command hidden under a dropdown box. It takes a geek to figure that out and i wonder how many people out there have accumulated years of garbage in the inbox up until now. When they put back the DELETE button my feeling was “was it me that miss the point or them?”
January 25th, 2006 at 9:46 pm
lol. i’m certain many a google engineer fought long and hard against this feature too.
January 25th, 2006 at 10:29 pm
better late than never
January 25th, 2006 at 11:04 pm
But I am still waiting for a keyboard shortcut to delete a message
PS: BTW Mark, I am really jealous of you to find that you have an empty Inbox!!!
January 25th, 2006 at 11:57 pm
Finally! I don’t know why they didn’t have one in the beginning.
January 26th, 2006 at 1:15 pm
Originally gmail didn’t have one, to make a point: “With 1GB of space, who needs delete? Just use the archive button!” At the time, the free accounts on hotmail and yahoo had something like 10MB limits, so you had to delete constantly - and gmail was trying to get people out of the habit.
Now it’s nearly 2 years later, and the point has been made. And still, a delete button is the a top feature request. I guess it was time to give people what they wanted!
January 26th, 2006 at 2:32 pm
Only GMail US has it. GMail Germany is still missing the button
January 27th, 2006 at 12:52 pm
Finally! But, I still keep clicking the dropdown box.
January 28th, 2006 at 4:25 pm
No Delete button in my french gmail!
dropdown box is my only way…
Germany, France….Europe, we are part of third world!
January 30th, 2006 at 2:11 am
There is no delete button for sent items yet!!!
January 31st, 2006 at 2:49 am
I found the “solution” to the missing delete-button in non-US Gmail accounts. Switch the language of your user interface to “English (US)” and - voilá - there is the “delete” button.
February 3rd, 2006 at 12:08 am
I use the Dutch locale and a Greasemonkey script with Firefox. Works, too!