Thank you for opening a thread for this topic here but ensuring that it won't be lost in spam.
I wrote a feedback and suggestions post on the correct board yesterday, but it was buried by complaint spam shortly afterward, so I though I'd quote it here. :-) Just for clarity, the only reason I said I was going to be using the UK iGoogle page for now was for the Preview/Hide Preview option on the Gmail gadget. On Oct 17, 7:43 pm, Jacob Hare wrote: > First off, thanks for developing iGoogle. It's been my homepage at > work, home and school for a few years (at least 2), and I've always > liked having all the things I needed in one place. > > With that said, I was upset last night when I went online and found > the new changes to iGoogle. The first thing I noticed is that my new > email messages were visible, instead of hidden. I like the preview > option because I can hide my messages while still seeing if I have new > ones and how many unopened messages I have, unlike if I was to > minimize the gadget. For now, I've decided to use the UK iGoogle page > since it is still using the old layout. > > Here's my feedback/suggestions. I hope they help: > > Since "maximizing" now seems to make the gadget make use of the full > screen, but the old fuction is still on the menu as "expand", why not > have buttons for both functions like a Maximize/Minimize button (the > current Maximize/Minimize function) and and Expand/Collapse button > (the old Maximize/Minimize function, which the new tab menu has). I > think this would allow people to only see the old-style previews, or > to make use of the pages that they link to without leaving iGoogle. A > collapse button would probably be nice for people with gadgets that > sit under their bookmark lists since you could collapse it when not > using it in the old layout. On that note, why not make it so that > when you fully maximize the Google Docs gadget, maybe there could be > an option to open the document on that page instead of in a new window > or tab. I don't know if that would work or not, but I think people > would probably like it. > > As far as other feedback, I see a lot of people complaining about the > tab menu on the left side of the screen. I like it, but it does take > up a lot of space. I think maybe adding an all-tabs option on the tab > preferences page to leave it on the side of the screen or to move the > tabs back to the top of the screen and make the tab menu a flyout that > appears when tabs are clicked on would eliminate any concerns people > have with it. When at the top of the screen, the you could just have > the first option on the tab menu be "Switch To" in case people want to > switch tabs instead of open something from the menu. > > My only other suggestion regarding the changes is to add an option in > the tab preferences to set a default page for iGoogle to always open > to. I noticed that if I was looking at Gmail last before closing > iGoogle, the next time I pressed the Home button or opened my browser > I was taken to the Gmail display instead of the main iGoogle page, > which I don't like because I don't like my email subjects to be > visible on the screen unless I am planning to check my messages > (privacy at public computers). > > Finally, I noticed that several things are working fine in IE8 that > are not working in Firefox 3. I don't know if this is an issue Google > or Mozilla should be looking into though. I primarily use Firefox > with NoScript and Adblock, but I always leave NoScript off for > Google. It seems that in Firefox, some of the options on the new tab > menu are locking up at times and not changing to the correct embedded > page, and for some reason the majority of the time, when I open > iGoogle it starts me off on the Google Notebook embedded page. > > And now for something completely different... How goes Chrome's > progress toward integrating addons (particularly AdBlock and > NoScript)? Are you planning to make it compatible with certain > Firefox addons or will there simply be a new line of them that people > will be making like with the iGoogle gadgets? I tried out Chrome a > while back but I didn't mess with it much at the time because of the > lack of these functions at the time. I've done a little looking > around for this information, but I don't know what information I have > seen is correct and what isn't. Second post: On Oct 17, 7:50 pm, Jacob Hare wrote: > I forgot to mention. I really like the embedded weather page that > opens when you choose Weather from the tab menu or click on your area > on the gadget in the new layout. The old layout just gave basic info > and took your to a web search for other weather sites when you clicked > on your area. I think that's a nice improvement. On Oct 17, 1:11 pm, "Dan (Google Employee)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > This group has received a lot of feedback on the new iGoogle layout, > and, while I appreciate everyone's comments, the feedback should > really be directed to this > group:http://groups.google.com/group/Google_Web_Search_Help-Personalizing/t.... > > If you really want to discuss the new design in this group, please do > so in this thread, which will be left open. 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