Fedora 9 Gnome 2.22 Beta Review

Okay i have finished up with the beta and i have found some key features i like about it and what i absolutely HATE

Things that were improved / liked

~Gnome 2.22: this was a very nice desktop and i love it

~Screen resolution: this is always very important to me that i have needed and in the Ubuntu 8.04 Beta (my review coming soon) the screen res was not right and i could only use the desktop without it having some crazy glitch was at a very low resolution but in fedora 9 Beta it worked like a charm

~Firefox 3 beta: this browser is alot better than its predecessor firefox 2 in the fact that it has "smart bookmarking" this cool feature will let you look into folders to see the documents in there and will also give you a "smart bookmarks" folder in which all of your bookmarks stay.. it tidys up the browser alot. and the address bar in it acts like the Google search bar where you type in a word that you use / search frequently and it will show that with the title and thumbnail of the site

~Add/Remove programs: i absolutely love the new add/remove programs because it does make you load all the 2000 + packages at startup but it gives you the choice of searching for a specific package or goto a tab with specific software like "internet" and it'll come up with all the internet software.. which somewhat reminds me of the Ubuntu add/remove programs

Those were the major improvements that were really standing out to me

Things that were bad or just plain horrible

~Flash player: like i said in my last post i was hoping that they would replace the button you need to press to get flash working... it interferes ALOT! especially when you go to the youtube website and the bar at top that has the "videos being watched now" and you cant see it but a big button that makes you press it to start the flash for it and once you have clicked it well it loads but it is EXTREMELY SLOW and very annoying and when i went to watch a video it wouldn't even play the video

~Login screen: I was really hoping they would keep the Fedora 8 login but no they replace that with a bland login screen in which you click on the user you want and it has this somewhat sluggish animation that makes it look horrible and for the background they give you the standard fedora wallpaper which makes the whole thing together look horrible and very unappealing to anyone

~Software installer: the new installer for .rpm packages is really not good at all with it not giving you any choice to install the package at all but it just automatically installs it. it also has a very bland GUI to it as well with just a blank box with some sliders and a blank icon and the only thing it tells you is "[insert .rpm here] is finished installing... making it much worse than the one in fedora 8

Well theres what i think of Fedora 9 Beta Gnome... so if you have your own opinions tell me or tell me your review of the Fedora 9 Beta KDE (cause im a Gnome user myself) just post it in the comments

~Kyle