r/McMaster • u/Th3Lorax SocWork; Moderator; Mature Student Community Organizer • Feb 25 '21

Announcement [Victory] Themes have been enabled in Gmail

Post Needlessly Long, Enjoy! or not. I'm not your real mom.

Customized themes aside, the main benefit here is High Contrast and Dark Mode themes can now be used. I personally find High Contrast to be the easiest to use.

How To enable Themes in Gmail (Keep it SFW, this is still a school account)
Me first declaring I would resolve this (compilation)
Me recounting my initial UTS contact
UTS shutting me down
UTS responding to my followup email+teams meeting
UTS declaring us the victors

This might seem small, but the point is, don't feel discouraged just because McMaster or another entity might shut you down before hearing your case. If you feel that you have valid points that should be heard, put in the work to be heard and you might actually get something done. I know a lot of you have felt like McMaster isn't going to listen to you and I can understand why, but try to keep hope and keep pushing to make things better.

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u/Th3Lorax Feb 25 '21 edited Feb 25 '21

I look forward to hearing about the unnecessary influx of Lorax themed Gmail backgrounds :)

I have made the same case for outlook when they move everyone over to that platform.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

I hope they never move the email to Outlook, Outlook is such a terrible email system.

I knew we technically had access to it for years, but there are so many smaller annoyances. Like the spellsheck isn't done through right click like every other website in the world, or a search function that works about as well as a search in a mid 00's forum website. But I never realized how bad it really was until I got multiple outlook accounts.

The biggest issue with outlook is the innability to flip between accounts on the fly between apps. Like with Youtube, I got 1 account, Gmail I have 2 more accounts, Google Docs I got another account. I can flip between them all through all of them on the fly. Google will also remember my choice.

With outlook, I have 3 email for other universities + work, and it's a nightmare to change them. For example, to use Teams, I have to use do a complete log out from everything Microsoft, then login to whatever account I want to use. Then I want to check my email, I open the tab, go to outlook and see I am logged in with the account I am using on Teams. What the fuck, I cannot even log out because it will kick me out from the meeting. Don't they know it's 2021 and people are allowed to have more than 1 email?

Quality Microsoft product for sure.

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u/Th3Lorax Feb 26 '21

Outlook is almost certainly coming. They already have been moving staff over to it all year. I'd assume they will move undergrads this summer

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

You can already use it and could for the past idk how many years, even if you have a gmail account.

They are trying to force it now especially hard because of all the apps it comes with, and as far as word and teams go maybe it makes sense. Although Google Docs and Discord can probably do a much better job.

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u/Th3Lorax Feb 26 '21

I only noticed that they were moving people over as of last year. I didn't know untill I was looking into the themes issue though.

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '21

that’s rly cool good job op

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u/heyhihellodoot Feb 27 '21

fighting the good fight, ty OP

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u/ardew02 Feb 27 '21

love you sm