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Don't know if this is something you can or would like to pursue (or could be contributed?), but I would love the option to move some of these buttons into the overflow menu. I don't use Google's tasks, and rarely use the spam button, so it would be great to take those out of view. I just clicked the tasks button by mistake when looking for snooze and it made me wish some of those buttons weren't there all the time!

Thanks again for making this extension!

It wouldn't be that hard to hide them all together.

But putting them in the overflow menu is much bigger task given I don't ask for full API access to your mail (which would let me call actions directly through the API).

For future reference to myself, to do it...

• The menu is made on the fly, so I would need to detect when it is opened (can be with a click or a keyboard shortcut)
• Then I would check if the actions were already there
• If not, I would add the items to the menu
• The added items would need to call a Simplify function that then simulated a click on the real buttons that were hidden (I don't have API access... so these kinds of things require these kinds of work arounds).

For compose, this is the new experience (actions in the overflow menu instead of being visible), but Gmail actually does that automatically when I shrink the parent container for those actions (probably in case other extensions add their buttons and squeeze out the available space for Gmail's compose actions). So all I had to do was re-order the actions and shrink the parent container.

I thought of a better way to do this... instead of moving the buttons to the overflow menu (quite hard), I can add a "show more" expander button after the more actions button that unhides all the hidden actions.

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I'd love to be able to selectively hide a couple of actions. For me the "add to tasks" button is a pain, it looks too similar to the Snooze button so I end up clicking that way too often. Moreover, I don't use tasks and I don't plan on doing so. It would be great to simply hide that button and get rid of this confusion.

Understood. For just one icon, you wouldn't gain any space back (hide the tasks icon and show a "show all actions" icon). Maybe there is an option to totally hide the action vs minimize it.

I change the snooze button so it doesn't look like the tasks button. Do you not see that?

I do notice that it the snooze button is changed, but to me, they still look very similar if I just glance at them (both are round, contrary to all other buttons in the bar).

For me, it's not about gaining space, it's about not seeing a confusing button for an action that I don't want to use anyway.

I was about to file a feature request for this, too, but I see this one already exists. Here's hoping it's possible!

For me, I don't even care if I can access the buttons—being able to hide the annoying ones is the main thing. I have an email address that basically never gets spam, and I'd love to stop accidentally hitting the "this is spam" button, for instance.