er to
stomach with data backing up the author's preferences.

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gbog
I don't even know who is Tufte, and don't worship anyone, thanks.

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yarone
My #1 complaint: The grabber for expanding the height of the textbox has been
deleted!

See here: <http://i.imgur.com/MEGM1.png>

Previously, I'd expand the textbox to give myself more space (and "breathing
room", if you will).

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tghw
"There's no divider between the mail contents and the navigation on either
side. Too much white space in many areas."

Um, the white space _is_ the divider. This really feels like they're
complaining because something changed and no one likes change.

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zbowling
Is just whitespace enough to be considered a real divider? You're eyes can't
track it every well in a complicated interface. You need a huge amount of
whitespace to work like real dividing line.

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Kev
I've been using the new design for about a week and overall I think it's an
improvement, but I've been griping non-stop about the chat/contact area
hogging space even when you drag it down as small as possible.

This comment started out as another one of those gripes, until I decided to
make one more attempt to hide the chat area for good. Turns out that clicking
on the speech bubble icon closes the contacts list/chat area. Can't believe it
took me a week to try that.

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kapilkale
I think the visuals are fine. But there are lots of new UI issues.

For example, I frequently copy / paste an email address into from an email
header into the search bar. Now I can't do that without clicking that tiny
little triangle, which is so small I usually miss. It's extremely annoying.

If there's a better way to do this I'd love to know.

edit- the tiny triangle: <http://i.imgur.com/U4qBR.png>

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nooneelse
If you hover over the person's name, and then click "more" in the popup, there
is a "Recent conversations" option that runs a similar search.

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antirez
I think this design is very good and better for heavy users compared to the
previous one:

* The new way to reply 