> Date: Thursday, January 28, 2016 03:55:09 -0800 > From: Benoit-Pierre DEMAINE <[email protected]> > > Check Doublehp on various BTS ... less than 10% of my bugs are > marqued as dup. 50% are rather marked as WONTFIX after 5 or 8 > years, because dev are bored making things work. Especially > Thunderbird and Xorg, they don't spend time making things work; > they just add broken and useless features so they can claim the > GUI is glossy and siny. I am not one of those who can't > distinguish between what I want, and what should happen. > > Fact is, there are critical bugs I have reported more than one > year ago which are not fixed yet (tap on links in messages may > refuse to launch URL depending on zoom scale: works better in > zoom out; the more you zoom in, the les chance you have to be > able to open links); and I am about to change MUA because of > them; the issue is that many people claime K9 is the best MUA for > Android, and I really don't know which one else I could try. > > Edge case: on some points, K9 works like it's been designed; but > it's been conceived a very bad way; and I will report those > design flaw as being bugs, because the design is either counter > intuitive, or completely unpratical (selection box in folder > view: tap 10 piexls on the left of the box, and you view it: the > sensible box is perfectly matching the visible box; but the > sensible box for selection should be as large as the height of > line; the actual sensible zone on left of box should produce > selection, not viewing). > > But since I am an experienced reporter, I most often check for > dups before reporting.
I think it's important to differentiate between bug reports, feature requests and understanding how to get an application to do what you want. My preference is to be able to select which part (text vs html) of a multi-part message is displayed by default by the mail client. K-9 doesn't support this. I don't see this as a bug, rather a missing feature, and I prod for that now and then (hint). The same would apply to things like the size and placement of a checkbox, clickable option or the overall design. I'm not saying there aren't bugs in K-9, just that a design that you don't like is design that you don't like, not a bug. Remember, K-9 is open source, so you or others can (and have) branch off other products from the base -- or start fresh. If your mail accounts/boxes are exclusively in gmail (as appears to be the case) you might want to look at the android gmail client or their "inbox" product. You might find them more to your liking. Personally I don't, so I don't use them - I don't file bug reports about their design. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the K-9 Mail Users List. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, email [email protected] To report an issue with K-9 Mail, visit http://code.google.com/p/k9mail/issues/list For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/k-9-mail --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "K-9 Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
