Caveats: Running 10.5, with lotus 6 templates.A definite improvement over 6.5 and 7
My 2cents: Some issues I regularly encounter with the beta
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Dragging attachments from body to desktop usually crashes the application
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Notes client cannot be force-quit – either from GUI or from Activity monitor or from Terminal. Ghost just hangs there until the machine is restarted
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Typing still will sporadially hang and move very slowly, not keeping up with users and moving in fits and starts (been a problem with 6,7 and 8 versions)
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Deleting appointments or meetings from the quick view in InBox doesn’t work; have to do it from the calendar
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Day-At-A-Glance often loses connectivity to caldar info, will not resolve until app is relaunched
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When launching Notes and moving to another application, it continually pops in front of other active app while loading, even if there is nothing for the user to do. Very invasive and annoying, given how long it usually takes to launch (running full eclipse)
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Editing table in message body is a pain, especially when trying to adjust width of cells. Very non-intuitive – why can’t I just drag the cell borders like in most other apps?
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Still no ability for user to change global font sizes in message and calendar views on the fly. While user can adjust font sizes for menu headings this doesn’t affect anything inside the tabs (e.g. inbox fonts do not change, nor do calendar where users are most typically wanting to have changed.) We have to send our users a script to adjust font sizes larger – why can’t the user control the size and look of fonts globally? That makes no sense.
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RSS functionality is nice, but adding RSS sits in the pop up while it downloads the file. USer has to wait before they can cancel (feeds.engadget.com took over a minute to download). This should be as simple as bookmarking or dragging the URL into the feeds sidebar.
I do like the refresh and keep entries time options, though.
Good things
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Fonts are cleaner and much more readable
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Web browser actually works and is fairly decent
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Better inline rendering of HTML images
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Much better support for permissions within OS X (in other words, permissions don’t whack the application)
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consolidation of preferences and options is more sensible.
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Better archiving options