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I heavily disliked the new Gmail setup at first. But what it did do was kinda force me into learning all the keyboard shortcuts. (as I still don't know what half the buttons do...) Makes my workflow so much nicer. because of this, I do enjoy gmail even more.

(I'm still not a fan, as I can't use my old custom color scheme, but that's another matter)

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> I still don't know what half the buttons do...

Do you have JS disabled? They all have tooltips.

fair enough. I guess my point was, I learned the keyboard shortcuts for those actions, so I never need to use the buttons. It was an exaggeration, the trash can icon isn't hard to figure out. But I don't even see them anymore, it's the "I don't use it, so I don't see it" blindness.

I highly recommend picking up the keyboard shortcuts, they are so amazingly fantastic. deleting, reading, labeling, archiving, marking important/unread. they all work wonders.

You can switch from icons to text labels in the settings.

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