caprine

Sure, but by making it an app it more tightly integrates with the desktop. For instance, I personally find it rather useless that when you resize gmail to a small screen, around 25% of my screen's real-estate is taken by the hangouts menu, which I almost never use. A much better use of screen space would be to hide the hangouts menu, when the screen diminishes. Also, by going the app route we can set some nice app specific shortcuts to gmail page functionalities that users might not know about and leverage Apple's awesome search bar under the help menu. The idea of this app was to make a gmail equivalent to what Caprine (https://github.com/sindresorhus/caprine) is for fb messenger. I've been using the gmail app since last week (when I made it) and so far, I like it more than I thought I would.