Gmail Jazzes Things Up With Themes

[JMcEntegart]

In keeping with the barrage of add-ons coming from Labs, the Gmail team has announced that you can now dress up your account with a theme, adding a splash of color to your email.

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[Marcus Yam]

Darn, my Gmail account wasn't included in the first round of rollouts. Anyone see theirs yet?

 

[JMcEntegart]

Neither was mine. *sniff*

 

[Guest]

Mine were included. It's just a CSS/JS make over, they didn't do proprietary stuff, so if you use a modern browser, you should be ok.

I tested in:
Vista 64 bit: Chrome, IE7, both worked fine.
Ubuntu 8.04 32 bit: FireFox 3, Opera 9.6, both worked fine.
Leopard: Latest patched Safari, also worked fine. (Chrome and Safari render pages incredibly similar, so most stuff coming from Google will be Safari friendly).

I didn't particularly like the themes, but I guess some people like color. I did choose a different one (but non-graphical, just different colors). Some of the graphical one made some things hard to read.

 

[Marcus Yam]

I'm just looking for one with a darker background so it's easier on the eyes. Are all the text boxes and emails still black text on white background?

 

[resonance451]

I really, really like the themes. Mine is currently set to ninja, but I like the cleaner, sleek looks as well.

 

[Guest]

Interesting that Anonymous33 had no problems with opera9.6. I'm using opera 9.6 on linux mint and gmail no longer works for me.

 

[crosshares]

Got the themes, real nice actually.

Although I've noticed a little more sluggishness in load times, but that could be due to me setting it to https which should be default.