FC3 Usability Problems

[Per Nystrom]

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
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