FC3 Usability Problems
David Malcolm
dmalcolm at redhat.com
Mon Jan 10 20:17:52 UTC 2005
On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 13:11 -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.
Please can you file these into bugzilla (as separate bugs please).
Thanks
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