On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 16:01 -0500, Dimi Paun wrote: > Now that I past the installation of FC5, I can share some of > my impressions. BTW, I've been running Red Hat since 4.0, so > I'm a long time user of everything Red Hat. > > I'd like to start by saying that this is a nice step forward > from FC4. There's a lot to be happy about: new versions, nicer > eye-candy, much faster in places. Good job! > > I'd like to stress the "faster" part. This is a very important > criteria for a good desktop experience, and I'm really glad > we finally see some much needed improvements. It took _seconds_ > in FC4 to start a simple app like gedit, now it's around a second. > Also, Firefox really shines, and for the first time it's actually > a better browser than IE for reading LKML [0]. > > I can go on and on about the number of improvements, but that > would be boring, so I'll start with the complaints :). BTW, I > run GNOME, and try to keep things as standard as possible. > > So here are my complaints, in order of importance: > > 0. Missing terminal on desktop menu... just kidding! :) > You guys were right, I can live without it. Mea culpa. Good to see the hundreds of mails on the thread we had earlier wasn't entirely a waste. The release notes has information on bringing it back if you need it btw (yum install nautilus-open-terminal). > > [seriously now] > > 1. Metacity's new window in the background > I can not stress how big of a problem this is for me. > I have used it since it was introduced, in the hope that > I'll get used to it. I didn't. Not only it does the wrong > thing for me in 90% of the cases, it also forces me to > use the mouse a lot more, which is painful for me. > A few google searches and browsing through GConf did not > reveal a way of disabling it. We have a bug report open it. Upstream has tentatively agreed to make it a option disabled by default > > 2. Evolution can't print > Nowadays I get quite a few invoices via email, and not being > able to print them is a big problem. Evo will just print the > headers, but not the content. Even the Print Preview shows > just the headers with an empty content. What gives?!? > BTW, same behavior was present in FC4, I was hoping FC5 will > fix it. > Do you have a bug report open on this? > 3. Gedit's tab > Not only I find these tabs simply the wrong interface, but > unconditionally having one even if I have only on file > open is irritating me to the point that I avoid that app > even when I need it. It's ugly, it takes vertical space, etc. > Again, I found no way of disabling this silly behavior. Might request a option to turn this off in bugzilla.gnome.org or post to http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/index.html > > These are my top 3 problems. There are others, but they pale in > comparison. If I missed a simple way of fixing them, I'd appreciate > any pointers. > > Thanks for an otherwise fantastic distro guys! All the pain, blood, > and tears that you guys put into it is very much appreciated. > > -- > Dimi Paun <dimi@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Lattica, Inc. > > [0] Go to the LKML archive, say here > http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0603.1/author.html > scroll to the middle of the list, click on a message, and then > click the Back button to go back to the list. > See how fast it renders the list again. > Until now, IE was way faster, but not anymore! You are talking about Firefox 1.5's fast back feature that stores a rendered copy of the history in it's cache. It might gobble up some RAM if you browse a large number of sites with huge images in it but it's good otherwise. Thanks for the feedback. Rahul -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
