I installed 10.2 Beta1 yesterday and I have to say I think this is going to be a really good distro when it's finished. In the meantime, I've filed seven bugs so far today:

• 216129
• 216313
• 216317
• 216319
• 216328
• 216352
• 216353

One gripe I have, and I'll raise this on a list because it's not a bug, is that the traditional three part menu (Applications/Places/System) was replaced automatically by the new SLED style GNOME Main Menu (recently proposed for GNOME 2.18) without me asking. Now, I like the new menu up to a point but I don't want it to be forced upon users. I knew about it, but seeing it there where the old one had been confused me at first. Imagine the reaction of a user who doesn't know about it, upgrades and it's all different.

My other gripe about it is 'Favourite Applications'. It's not immediately clear (or indeed even a day later) how I change this list. My question, therefore, is whose favourites are these? They should be mine, I suspect they're Novell's.

Finally, the Application Browser accessed by clicking More Applications on it is rubbish! What would be much better would be if clicking that button spawned the Applications menu.

The new menu looks like this: