On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 13:11:38 -0800, Per Nystrom <centaur@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 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. Not having either the display or the import problems but then again I am not getting a ton of the Outlook calendar appointments either. My mail and accounts imported from Evolution fine. I turned off the spam filter stuff in Evolution because quite simply the pop retrieval times were too slow. Yes, honestly this needs to be addressed. > > 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! Honestly even with the big lettering they could easily go to one panel but then again like alot of things in Gnome I like the look. I hated the MS-like one panel config where the panel size was so large in RH8 and 9. I like the two thin panels. Plus, its like when people complain that KDE is too XP-like by default. They are both kind of hokey arguements. Yes, defaults matter but my gosh it takes two seconds to remove a panel and the menus to a thin bottom panel. > 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 > As with the other person replying to the message later on I have to say this is odd because all my passwords and account info came across.
