Gmail has themes

[Berenburger]

See this blog post.

From Gmail Blog
Posted by Annie Chen, Gmail engineer

Gmail fans have been building unofficial extensions to spice up their inboxes for a while, but up til now themes haven't been an integral part of Gmail. We wanted to go beyond simple color customization, so out of the 30 odd themes we're launching today, there's a shiny theme with chrome styling, another one that turns your inbox into a retro notepad, nature themes that change scenery over time, weather driven themes that can rain on your mailbox, and fun characters to keep you in good company. There's even an old school ascii theme (Terminal) which was the result of a bet between two engineers -- it's not exactly practical, but it's great for testing out your geek cred. We've also done a minor facelift to Gmail's default look to make it crisper and cleaner -- you might notice a few colors and pixels shifted around here and there.

[a_a]

nice, was wating for this finally,
does anybody notice the "on behalf of" no longer show?

[theog]

Originally Posted by a_a

does anybody notice the "on behalf of" no longer show?

I notice "on behalf of" is still there... did you hear it was suppose to go?

[kaptitsky]

I love "Terminal."

[a_a]

Originally Posted by theog

I notice "on behalf of" is still there... did you hear it was suppose to go?

i guess not.

[Merovingian]

Originally Posted by Berenburger

See this blog post.

very interesting, I'll have to check them out.

thanks for this info, Berenburger!

[CyberDyne]

Just in case anyone wonders, themes have not been enabled on all accounts. I assume they have been rolled out only on certain servers and the rest will follow.

I currently have themes on two accounts but not on three others.

[Katyushka]

My favorite is "Shiny"

[dragon1]

Love it!

Chose "Summer Beaches" for one account; chose "Pebbles" for another. While it's not cold and gloomy where I am (at least not today), I wanted something to remind of the warmer days of spring and summer. Something of nature in the background.

[nightotter]

Terminal is fun. I like Shiny too.

[kaptitsky]

Personally, I find the whole "changes through the day based on your local time" thing kind of creepy.

I know Google pioneered that notion in iGoogle, and it must work for them, but still. . . .

[xmailer]

Just what I need, another feature to make Gmail load slower than it does already. (Thanks for the information, though.)

[cococo]

xmailer,

We all know you have the slowest connection.

[xmailer]

Originally Posted by cococo

xmailer,

We all know you have the slowest connection.

Lately I've been "borrowing" a broadband connection on a fairly frequent basis, but even then the newer interface loads more slowly than I would like, but unfortunately I don't usually have the link to the older interface handy there (and my memory isn't good enough to memorize it with any confidence, but of course it would take "extra" time to type it in even if I did), so I have to login to the new (default) interface then click the link to get the older one (which I prefer apart from the speed question, as I just prefer its simplicity and "less-cluttered" look), which of course takes even more time.

But I guess I'm the outcast here, as apparently most people prefer "pretty" over simple and functional. But as I see it, if I have to wait for "pretty" to load, I might as well be waiting for Yahoo's ads to load.

[Ennis]

Get a hosted Gmail account and you won't have to worry about themes. You won't get any.