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Re:Localisation is too hard for Gmail by sarabande on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @08:28AM (#24847102)
Couldn't they just disassociate "Trash" with the label concept? On the backend, implement special logic for the "trash" function instead of tying it to a label, and you can solve the problem.
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Re:Localisation is too hard for Gmail by namdnay on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @08:45AM (#24847249)
This is probably what would happen if gmail was a corporate solution: one customer executive would shout about it, and there would be this type of disgusting hack. Fast forward 5 years, and people then wonder "why are all our internal tools so crappy compared to free cloud stuff?"...
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Re:Localisation is too hard for Gmail by pwinnski on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @11:05AM (#24848542)
They already treat Trash/Bin as a special concept internally. They have since launch. You cannot have 'Trash' and other tags/labels, like 'Inbox' set at the same time, for instance.

So it might be a disgusting hack, but it's been whatever it is since launch, although incompletely.

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