FC3 Usability Problems
Per Nystrom
centaur at netmagic.net
Sun Jan 9 00:48:58 UTC 2005
On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 16:29, Brian Fahrlander wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 13:11 -0800, Per Nystrom wrote:
--- snip ---
> > 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.
>
> I'm working from the base FC3; I see no drawers other than what I
> put on myself...(which I don't) and the top and bottom bars are pretty
> skimpy. Did you do an upgrade, or a re-install? Maybe there are old
> settings clouding the issue?
Well, it's not obvious they're drawers, but that's how they function.
I'm talking about the top, left corner where you see a red hat (that no
longer seems to do anything), and to the right of that the text
"Applications", and to the right of that, the text "Actions". When I
click on either of these, I get menus similar to what used to spring
from the red hat.
Fresh install plus yum update -- nothing else. This is the default
desktop that it gives me.
> No such top-to-side transition was found here- did it this morning.
> Thin panel at the top, thin panel on the side.
I'm pretty sure it's these text buttons in the panel that cause the
super-fat panels on the side. It can't resize the text, so it resizes
everything else to match.
On a side note, I am told it is possible to revert to the FC2-style main
menu where all you have is a red hat that actually does something. But
I don't think what we have now by default in FC3 is an improvement at
all.
> > 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
>
> Well, see, I'm a Galeon holdback. I was ticked when I saw a galeon-
> >firefox importer that I couldn't use under FC2. But now I've learned
> that galeon->mozilla and then mozilla->firefox is the way to go. Is the
> method you mean?
I'm not sure about your upgrade path, all I know is I copied my old
.mozilla directory into the new installation, started Firefox, chose
File->Import, and got... nothing. It's an empty dialog box with a
disabled Back button, a Next button that's clickable but doesn't do
anything, and a Cancel button (that does what's expected).
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