Test Day:2009-08-11 Fit and Finish:Peripherals

DATE	TIME	WHERE
2009-08-11	From 12:00 to 21:00 UTC (8am -> 5pm EDT)	#fedora-fit-and-finish)

What to test?

Today's instalment of Fedora Test Day will focus on user experience issues of peripherals. We are interesting in the problems you face when plugging anything into your computer, be it a mouse, a keyboard an external hard drive, a modem, a printer, a camera, a phone, a music player, a GPS or whatever.

Who's available

The following cast of characters will be available for testing, workarounds, bug fixes, and general discussion: Matthias Clasen, David Zeuthen, Bastien Nocera

Prerequisites for Test Day

• An up-to-date rawhide installation. See the instructions on the Rawhide page on the various ways in which you can install or update to Rawhide. If that feels too risky to you, we also have recent rawhide live images available that allow you to participate without risking your existing installation. Tips on using a live image are available at FedoraLiveCD.

Note that the images will be removed shortly after the test day, since they are strictly for test day usage only. Warning: I was bit by the bug having to do with notification area icons not showing up. I killed nm-applet and ran it directly to get onto my wireless network.

Architecture	SHA1SUM
i586	e9ab9f9846bea2d0d0eb4514a4048d9365a07950
x86_64	6f49f3f7b6a3fab49514c73035bdfe42a8ca1416

• For the Go online with a phone test, you'll need the latest versions of NetworkManager and gnome-bluetooth
• A variety of gizmos that can be plugged into a computer. See above for a representative list of devices that might be good to test
• A good mood. Remember; while we are poking into things that may make us angry or frustrated, we are doing it to make things better

How to test

In this test day, we want to find small and large issues that ruin the user experience of working with devices that can be (hot-)plugged into your computer.

Test cases:

• Transfer music to a music player
• Get photos off a camera
• Transfer files to a phone
• Go online with a phone via Bluetooth, Go online with a phone (wired)
• Copy data onto a USB stick
• Setting up Bluetooth printers

Here are some things to look at:

• Does the desktop react in the right way if you plug in your device ?
• Is a suitable icon used to represent the device ?
• Do the relevant applications 'see' the device, e.g. does a music player appear in rhythmbox ?
• Do applications react appropriately to the device being unplugged ?
• Do things work in the same way if the device is already plugged in before boot or before login ?

Issues that were identified

Tester	Description	Bug references
pfps	Messages when inserting and unmounting/ejecting filesystems	#516739
hadess	Sony Ericsson K850i wired connection appears in NM, but can't connect	not yet
hadess	CUPS Bluetooth backend crashes when discovering a new printer	fixed in F11, rawhide
jlaska	Plugging in 2 USB keyboards, each with different keymaps, doesn't work as expected. Keypresses on the second keyboard diplays a character that doesn't correspond to the key pressed.
hadess	crash when closing the wizard after setting PAN	fixed in rawhide
hadess/robert__	pulseaudio warnings	#469416
mclasen	unplugging a webcam causes trouble	#516776
kparal	copying data to usb stick is very fast and then hangs on 100% for a very long time	TBD
hadess	Discovery for BT printers doesn't work	fixed in F11, rawhide
hadess	System-config-printer bug	#516787
mclasen	usb speakers show up as input, too	#516783
kparal	USB webcam does not work	TBD
kparal	Bluetooth preferences have editable box Friendly name with non-editable text, which is confusing	#516801
kparal	Error message in bluetooth transfers is hardly readable	#516807
kparal	Resizing windows in metacity using alt+middle mouse is cancelled with whell scroll	TBD
mclasen	Too many dialogs when plugging a camera in	#591454
mclasen	Camera icon does not go away	#591457
vbenes	using bluetooth mouse is not smooth enough (one stuck each 5s)	#516756
dpravec	there was no volume control applet in the panel	-

Things that work alright

Tester	Description
pfps	USB sticks work as usual (surprise!), except I see "Aug 11 09:11:29 localhost gnome-keyring-daemon[2253]: mount_added: assertion `identifier' failed" and "Aug 11 09:12:05 localhost gnome-keyring-daemon[2253]: no volume registered at: /media/CF" on unmount plus "Aug 11 09:13:40 localhost usb_id[3250]: unable to access '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/host12/target12:0:0/12:0:0:0/block/sdc'" on eject
pfps	USB to SATA disk works (and eject option available!), except I see the second and third messages from USB stick test above
pfps	USB multi card reader works, except I see the first and second messages from USB stick test above
mclasen	USB webcam works for both video and audio out of the box
kparal	USB stick works ok - auto mounting, auto showing contents, showing desktop icon, showing warning for too large files, informing user when is safe to eject device
pfps	PCMCAI to CF adaptor working as expected - modulo above messages
kparal	Accessing data on phone using Bluetooth works ok
pfps	Thinkpad T60p disk in bay (PATA->SATA!) works ok - modulo above messages
mclasen	Changing sound output devices moves streams without glitch
mclasen	Volume up/down keys on USB speakers bring up the OSD
pfps	eject on USB sticks (and CF cards in adapters) correctly unmounts all partitions
pfps	Filesystems with pictures correctly offer to import the pictures (Cameras are a different matter, though)
danw	USB ethernet adapter shows up in nm-applet when plugged in, and NM falls back to next device when you unplug it
vbenes	sending file to phone via bluetooth works fine