UI Upgrade including toolbar rearrange breaks onehand usage

[jimjaeger]

Hello,

today android automatically upgrade k9mail to the latest version. As result the app got the new theming including that includes the change of the toolbar from the bottom to the top. Regardless by intent or not, the move of the toolbar breaks the daily one hand / one finger usage handling of k9mail that made k9mail so popular.

Please move the toolbar back to the bottom in the new theme, or provide instructions how to restore to the old theme, or provide intructions how to downgrade to version that supports it. Thanks.

Btw. if you plan such desruptive change, you may well advised to do a survey or introduce it per feature toogle.

[Bun-Bun]

Here’s the bigger thread people talking about it. There is a post in there that discusses downgrading to the old version.

K-9 Mail is back (5.800 release)

I’m in totally agreement, with this new UI my thumb will have to grow by at least 2 in just reach the delete button. Rolling back, what a pain.

And yes I agree with you. Material design breaks one handed usage. k-9 > 5.6 is completely useless to me for this reason.

[capi]

There are plenty of similar threads, I don’t think yet another one adds any real value.

@jimjaeger

or provide intructions how to downgrade

How to downgrade to an earlier version?

Android does not support downgrading an app. So you have to uninstall the app, then install the old versions you want to continue using. Before doing that, you probably want to export your settings, though. Export K-9 Mail settings Open the drawer Select Settings Select Export settings Tap the Export button Select a destination and tap the Save button Disable auto update in Google Play Open the Play Store app Go to the details page of K-9 Mail Open the “three dots” menu in the upper rig…

Please also note that there seem to have been quite some beta releases before the public release.

Maybe someone will be willing to fork/maintain 5.600 and provide a “K-9 Classic” but it won’t be able to be uploaded to Play Store for distribution, since the old app no longer meets the requirements Google puts on apps to be allowed in the Play Store.