Comments on: Gmail labels get higher placement, drag-and-drop

Google is bowing to the notion that some people use Gmail's labels like traditional e-mail folders, and will now let them to drag messages "into" labels while organizing mail.

[scottspinola]

Killing right side labels was an absolutely horrible idea.

I now see less of my labels at one time yet they take up gobs of left nav space, pushing my calendar widget and Contacts and Tasks links past the scroll and leaving a gaping hole of unused space in the right nav. Yeah. Really useful.

Google is now officially Microsoft: completely ignoring user needs and eliminating widely loved and well-used features for fancy but ultimately gimmicky flash.

Then again we're all just peons to these massive companies and have absolutely no say in the development of the applications that are now essential to our lives.

[lained]

My big thing is I want to be able to have a filter filter by group name! Has anyone done this?