Finally installed RC3 (inside vmware) and gave it a checkup. Here are my notes so far in a hierarchical list (hopefully not too late, though some of the issues may be history by now):
CONS:
Desktop icons
VASM: calls "vsuper vasmcc", rename icon to VASMCC
Panel
Menu button: too wide, selection box defeats purpose of shape
Program Launcher
vcpufreq, description: typo
vl-hot-config, description: thumbdrive???
Mixer applet: volume control works only after resetting in properties
Xfce Settings Manager
Desktop
Adjust Brightness: default=19, should be 0
File Manager
Advanced
Volume Management
Configure (Removable Drives and Media)
PDAs: set to unavailable gnome utilities
Printers: set to unavailable gnome utilities
Panel
Appearance (Size): default 36, too tall, maybe better 32, (I use 28)
User interface
Icon theme: default Vista-inspirate (still ugh!)
changing, then back to default => lost icons in Panel Menu,
recovered on logout/login
Window Manager
Advanced
Window snapping: default "Snap windows to other windows" disabled
Double click action: Unix/Linux default is shade, not maximized???
File system
/mnt: clean up!
Thunar
Hidden files: default show, should be hide?
Gimp
Help browser: shows a lot of "???TITLE???" entries on left pane
Gnumeric
Help
Contents: does nothing
K3b
Settings
Preferences
Programs: still some missing (normalize, transcode, vcdx*)
QT
qtconfig: default (root and user) theme is Motif, should be Polymer
PROS:
Xfce Settings Manager
Sessions and Startup
Logout settings
Automatically save session on logout: default disabled
User interface
Theme: Xfce-dawn (much better than previous ones)
Window Manager
Style: default Sassandra (better)
Thunar
Custom actions: nice selection!
NOTES (a few additional notes):
- xorg autoconfig works, except resolution selection, got 1024x768 instead of 1440x900, though Xfce Display Settings shows all of them.
- mouse wheel worked
- no Xfce terminal issues
- no Panel Menu "Quit" issues.