[ale] AAAARRRRG! #@$%#$%$%^$% Don't upgrade K9 Mail!

[Scott Plante]

Yup, I get all that. I just thought it was funny when he brought up liking it so much out of the blue, after reading your comments, and thought you might get a kick out of it too. I used to use K9 Mail but never got around to installing it on my new phone. 

Scott 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Ron Frazier (ALE)" <atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> 
To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org> 
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2013 7:54:35 PM 
Subject: Re: [ale] AAAARRRRG! #@$%#$%$%^$% Don't upgrade K9 Mail! 

Hi Scott, 

I'm sure there are many people that like the redesign. I liked some of the features myself. Everyone uses a computer and processes information differently. The experience may be different on a phone versus my tablet. For me, though, the specific design change that essentially cut in half the number of message headers I could see on my screen at a time killed it for me. I haven't found a way to make topic specific folders in K9. Thus it's not uncommon for me to have 500+ messages in my inbox at once, starred for reference later, and 40 or more unstarred and at the top of the heap, that I'm paying attention to now. Being able to see half as many at once because they put the sender name on top of the subject, just didn't work for me. Everybody has different preferences though. 

Sincerely, 

Ron 



Scott Plante <splante at insightsys.com> wrote: 

>Ha ha, today at lunch a co-worker (who isn't on this list) out of the 
>blue started talking about how much he liked the new K9 Mail! I began 
>to tell him about this thread and your complaints. 
> 
> 
>Scott 
> 
>----- Original Message ----- 
> 
>From: "Ron Frazier (ALE)" <atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> 
>To: "ALE" <ale at ale.org> 
>Sent: Monday, July 8, 2013 1:10:55 AM 
>Subject: [ale] AAAARRRRG! #@$%#$%$%^$% Don't upgrade K9 Mail! 
> 
>Warning, if you like the OLD one line per message format for K9 Mail 
>for android, DON'T UPGRADE. 
> 
>Yet another program dev team REDESIGNS a WORKING user interface and 
>MAKES IT WORSE without giving the user a choice. 
> 
>That makes 5 products now that have betrayed me, 7 if you count Windows 
>8 and Ubuntu. 
> 
>Now I have to spend half a day retrograding the program and set it to 
>never update again, if that's even possible! 
> 
>You've been warned, but it may not be soon enough. 
> 
>Ron 
> 



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