On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 01:11:38PM -0800, Per Nystrom wrote: > I just tried out FC3 last night, and I have a few rants to make about > some of the key desktop features. I know it's a testbed and to expect > this kind of thing, so please just take it as constructive criticism. > I'll continue to play with it and will eventually upgrade, but for now > I'm going to stick with FC2 for my day-to-day needs. > > 1. Evolution > o Doesn't display some messages correctly. To, From, and CC > headers are truncated; body is not rendered or only partially > rendered. This happened in particular on several messages > with calendar appointments generated by Outlook. > o Slow as hell. Took 3 hours (bogofilter can do it in about 5 > minutes) for it to "learn" my list of about 4000 spam messages > for the junk feature. Anyway, the junk feature itself feels > like a me-too effort that's unnecessary -- I'd rather plug in > a spam filter of my choice using the pipe to external program > feature in the incoming filters. > o One of my virtual folders never did show up right, even after > I corrected its filter to point to the right folder. Not sure > if it was being slow or what -- basically it was looking for > a particular string in the bodies of messages in one Exchange > mailbox with about 300 messages. For comparison, the same > filter takes about 5 seconds in Evolution 1.4.6. > o Import from Evolution 1.x is not quite right. It completely > forgot two of my mail accounts. None of my filters pointed > to the correct locations of the new folder layout. > > 2. Two desktop panels is one too many > o The new layout with the GIANORMOUS main menu drawer buttons is > ridiculous. Use icons with hover popups to say "Applications" > and "Actions" -- don't spell them out in the panel! Also, > trying to put the top panel on the left or right sides is a > sick joke -- the thing becomes massively thick and can't be > resized, probably because of the aforementioned spelled-out > drawer buttons. > o If the above were fixed, it wouldn't be necessary to have two > panels. Leave the desktop as clean as possible, especially > vertically. > > 3. Firefox > o I was completely unable to import my saved passwords from > Mozilla. The File->Import dialog does absolutely nothing. > See this bug for details: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=140643 > > -- Per I sympathize with your frustrations but as someone pointed out to me, the panels in the gnome desktop resulted from decisions made by the Gnome developers, firefox the firefox developers, and so on. All FC3 has done is using the latest programs available. That is one of the problems with open software versus software developed by a single company like Sun. -- ======================================================================= Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. -- Albert Schweitzer ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
