How Do You Like the New Gmail Compose Feature?

The LA Times reports that not everybody is happy with the new compose feature on Gmail, but the product manager for the company, Phil Sharp, says it's faster and easier to use. If you haven’t seen it already, it is a pop-up screen, a little “like G-chat, only larger” Gmail claims.

In explaining the new system, Sharp says it helps when you’re writing a new e-mail and have to reference another one. In this new system, you don’t have to save it as a draft, open the old one, then go back to your draft. You can do a search or be watching new mail come in as you’re composing a new message.

The problem is, as we’ve learned with Facebook, we don’t like change. Once we’ve gotten used to a system, we like it to stay that way.

So what do you think of the new Gmail compose feature — an improvement and much easier to use? Or, ugh, give me the old system back?