Google, I have the solution.
Step 1: Checkout the Sparrow source code
Step 2: Find and Replace All on the word "Sparrow" and change it to "Gmail"
Step 3: Add push notifications.
Compile and send to the app store.
Step 1: Checkout the Sparrow source code
Step 2: Find and Replace All on the word "Sparrow" and change it to "Gmail"
Step 3: Add push notifications.
Compile and send to the app store.
I've actually just now reinstalled it to check what bothered me so much, and it's the same issue I have with the new Gmail app: swipe-to-archive simply isn't there. Frequency of me archiving messages: extremely high. Frequency of changing between different folders: nearly zero. Yet the left-to-right swipe which gives you the "delete" button in Mail brings that weird Facebook-esque hierarchical navbar that's become so prevalent in the last couple years.
Swiping the other direction exposes five options, two of which (I assume "archive" and "delete") have rather ambiguous icons. Mental energy - do not like (see also: new Gmail web UI).
When viewing an individual message, it's two taps to do all of the stuff that takes one in Mail. The designers traded always-visible icons for extra message real estate; clearly a matter of personal preference, but the wrong one for me.
Just goes to show how oddly personal the email experience can be, especially when you consider everyone's various workflows.
>> Swiping the other direction exposes five options, two of which (I assume "archive" and "delete") have rather ambiguous icons
Hyperbole, much?
edit - To clarify: widely-adopted shortcuts are only effective when they work the same everywhere. Imagine if some applications mapped "paste" to ^P instead of ^V. It might as well not be there.
They wanted Apple to allow then to run a daemon process that checks for new mail on the device, which Apple was reluctant to do (in general, I really like Apple's implementation of background services, but in this case I think they should've relented).