{"id":25851,"date":"2012-01-31T19:13:42","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T02:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/31\/i-guess-using-google-calendar-is-now-passe.html"},"modified":"2012-02-01T15:34:42","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T22:34:42","slug":"i-guess-using-google-calendar-is-now-passe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/31\/i-guess-using-google-calendar-is-now-passe.html","title":{"rendered":"I guess using Google Calendar is now passe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Margie was complaining this morning by IM about not having a single click access to Google Calendar. "Not even off the black bar menu at the top of the screen?" No, she noted she didn't have a black bar any more.<\/p>\n

Strange.<\/p>\n

This evening, I saw what she meant, and, yeah. That sucks.<\/p>\n

The new "Google Bar" ends up with a menu that you can hover over.. But that menu doesn't have Calendar on it — to get to that, you have to go and choose "More" at the bottom.<\/p>\n

WTF, Google?<\/p>\n

This doesn't affect me in particular because I just keep a browser tab open to Mail, Calendar, and Reader. But is that what what Google intends folks to do? Or are they just kind of giving up on Calendar? Strangeness.<\/p>\n

This redesign has been rolling out slowly since last November, per the below. You can provide feedback to Google on its new layout across all its products (including "Google bar" here: http:\/\/support.google.com\/bin\/request.py?hl=en&ctx=go&contact_type=surveyk<\/a><\/p>\n

#ddtb<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOfficial Google Blog: The next stage in our redesign<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSix months ago we started rolling out a new look and feel for Search, News, Maps, Translate, Gmail and a bunch of other products. Our goal was to create a beautifully simple and intuitive user experie…\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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Margie was complaining this morning by IM about not having a single click access to Google Calendar. "Not even off the black bar menu at the top of the screen?" No, she noted she didn't have a black bar any more. Strange. This evening, I saw what she meant, and, yeah. That sucks. 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