GMail keyboard + alternative keyboards

[mrmrw]

GMail is almost unsable when composing a message - the Send and discard and Save buttons take up more room than you get space to type, resulting in just 3 or so lines of visible text.

To make it worse, the typing font is massive.

Does anyone know how to...

1) Remove the stupid Send/Discard/Save buttons above the keyboard. Clicking the menu soft-key brings up those options anyway, meaning they literally are nothing but a waste of typing space

2) Change the font size, so we can see more text as we type. When reading a message, the font is much smaller and still very readable...

3) Change the keyboard to something shorter, gaining more room to see messages we compsose


I got this phone to GMail with so this is pretty annoying.
Any advice much appreciated!

 

[SUroot]

When you get the 2.2 froyo update, I believe there will be a newer gmail client in there that doesn't have these buttons.

The main problem on the wildfire is the low resolution screen, making things that are normally small - bigger.