GMail: make the labels menu larger

2015-10-22 09:36  GMailLargerLabelsMenu      [permalink]

When you don't like it: adapt it.

At work we've been switched to Google Mail for some time now, and to make sense of the mayhem that is the incoming torrent of e-mail, I've been using an extensive set of labels and sub-labels with nice colours and stuff.*

But the list of labels on the pop-up-menu if the 'move' and 'label' buttons is so small, only showing the first few labels, and I had to scroll most of the time.

Is there way to adapt this? It turns out there is. At first I read about user stylesheets, but these got removed from Google Chrome, but there's an extension that does the same:  Stylus

Install this, and for URL's that start with "https://mail.google.com/mail/", add this:

.aX1 {
  max-height: 780px;
  top: 92px !important;
}
.aX2 {
  max-height: 780px;
  top: 92px !important;
}
.aX1 .aXjCH {
  max-height: 600px;
}
.aX2 .aXjCH {
  max-height: 600px;
}

*: Extra tip: I was searching for something nice to prefix the label-names with that would cause them to get storted (alphabetically) at the end. In theory you could use "zzz " as prefix, but that's ugly. And assumes you'll never have an account named "zzz".
After a bit of searching around the unicode spec, I stumbled upon Bopomofo, so now i use ㄍ and ㄑ which apparently sort past 'z' and look pretty nice.

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