On: Gmail Add-ons

[soheil]

So two things come to mind:

- this reminds of the ancient Labs feature in Gmail where you could add stuff like favicon that shows unread email count

- is there going to be a Gmail plugin store?

[tyingq → soheil]

It already sort of exists as "Gmail Contextual Gadgets": https://developers.google.com/gmail/contextual_gadgets

It was tied to the Google Apps marketplace as you suggest.

This sounds like that idea extended such that it works on mobile. And the interface looks cleaner.

Also, FWIW, contextual gadgets is dusty, unmaintained, docs out of date, docs have broken links, etc. Basically abandonware.

[fiatjaf → soheil]

You didn't click the link, that's clear.

But hey, Gmail Labs is still there!

[OJFord → fiatjaf]

That's hardly fair: the linked page doesn't mention Labs once.

> But hey, Gmail Labs is still there!

I'm not even sure what makes you say that like there's no chance of it changing as a result of this?