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by prepend 2820 days ago
I don’t understand why gmail ties their functionality to skins so much in gmail. This is the third time they’ve forced a UI change for no functional reason, just that they wanted easier maintenance.

I really got bugged in 2011 when they got rid of their terminal theme [0].

I don’t think this is a UI issue, I think it’s just poor design where a skin would somehow not perform well. It seems pretty easy to maintain different simple skins or to provide an API.

[0] https://productforums.google.com/forum/?noredirect=true#!top...