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Fedora Test Days
L10n Desktop

Date 2012-09-28
Time all day

Website QA/Fedora_18_test_days
IRC #fedora-test-day (webirc)
Mailing list test


Can't make the date?
If you come to this page before or after the test day is completed, your testing is still valuable, and you can use the information on this page to test, file any bugs you find at Bugzilla, and add your results to the results section. If this page is more than a month old when you arrive here, please check the current schedule and see if a similar but more recent Test Day is planned or has already happened.

What to test?

Today's installment of Fedora Test Day will focus on translations availability and accuracy in desktop applications

Who's available

The following cast of characters will be available testing, workarounds, bug fixes, and general discussion ...

  • Development -
  • Quality Assurance - Aalam (alam)
  • Localization - Ani Peter (apeter)
  • Localization - Manoj Kumar Giri (mgiri)

Prerequisite for Test Day

  • Bare metal or virtual machine. Start with Virtualization
  • Usb key, a virtualized guest or a burned CD/DVD with the test image. Please Change Video device for Virtual Machine before start running test image.

How to test?

Prepare Your System

  • Tests requiring physical media (e.g. DVD or CD images)
  • You may download a non-destructive Fedora 18 live image for your architecture. The specific live image for L10N tests can be found ( here). Tips on using a live image are available at FedoraLiveCD
  • Unless otherwise noted, you may use nightly Fedora 18 branch install images. Review for information on downloading and installing Branched.
  • If you are using a Alpha or pre-Alpha installation please keep in mind to update your system before running the tests.

How to run desktop in your language?

After booting from Live iso:
1. On desktop top right corner click on "Live System User"
2. From menu, select "System Settings"
3. In "System Settings" window, select "Region and Language"
4. Then in "Region and Language" window, under "Language", to add your language click plus (+) sign at the bottom.
5. In "Select a Language" window select your language, then click "select" button.
6. Close "Region and Language" window
7. Run command 'gnome-session-quit' to Logout (as there is no 'Log out' Button on system with Single User account (other than 'root'))

8. In confirmation box click on "Log Out" Button.
9. On gdm screen just click on user name "Live System User"
10. It will ask you to update folder name to your language, try your choice.

And start testing your language...

Nice to test

Bugs you might hit or additional situations that are nice to test:

Test Results

Specific L10N bugs like typos and translation mistakes should be directly reported to the local translation team mailing list or a bug report should be filed at Bugzilla against the related language. General bugs that affect all languages like strings not marked for translation, downstream patching that breaks translations and input method issues should be filed against the related package. If you are unsure about exactly how to file the report or what other information to include, just ask on IRC and we will help you.

How to file bugs

The following links helps you to guide to file both l10n and i18n related bugs:-

Fill one bug report by component and issue
You should fill only one bug report by component and by issue.Be sure to link the report here quickly then, to let people re-use it.

Translation teams are free to prioritize packages they find more important to test. We have made introduced a new test matrix from f18 l10n testing. Feel free to provide feedback/comments/suggestions to fltg@lists.fedoraproject.org.

  • The applications have been divided into Frequently Used Applications (FUAs) and non Frequently Used Applications (non-FUAs) for translation teams to prioritize packages for testing.
  • The test matrix table below takes you to individual pages application-wise for testing.
  • Each test page contains test cases for each application and can the test results can be provided in a table format like earlier.
  • Click on the link on the second column in the below test matrix, which directs you to the test result page where you can enter your language name, code (fail/pass), bug filed and comments, if any.

Test Matrix

Only Fedora component are tested
This time, we only test Fedora components, the one following the Fedora release cycle. Therefor, you should not report here GNOME issues for example.

NOTE:- If you find any strings in English, kindly confirm whether its 100% translated in upstream. Link for upstream is provided along with each packages. Accordingly please file your bugs, as in some cases latest translations might not be imported.


FUAs Application List

Package Provide Results L10n Resource Comments
example Link to test page This is a result example.
abrt QA-L10N:abrt transifex
anaconda QA-L10N:anaconda [OPTIONAL] transifex
firstboot transifex THIS IS CURRENTLY NOT READY TO TEST
authconfig QA-L10N:authconfig transifex
chkconfig QA-L10N:chkconfig transifex
comps QA-L10N:comps transifex
cracklib QA-L10N:cracklib transifex
fedora-preupgrade QA-L10N:fedora-preupgrade transifex
ibus QA-L10N:ibus transifex
im-chooser QA-L10N:im-chooser RHZanata?
im-setting QA-L10N:im-setting RHZanata?
iok QA-L10N:iok See the instructions at Upstream
kexec-tools QA-L10N:kexec-tools
passwd QA-L10N:passwd transifex
pulseaudio QA-L10N:pulseaudio I18n dead
setroubleshoot QA-L10N:setroubleshoot transifex
setuptool QA-L10N:setuptool transifex
smolt QA-L10N:smolt
system-config-audit QA-L10N:system-config-audit transifex
system-config-date QA-L10N:system-config-date transifex
system-config-firewall transifex THIS IS CURRENTLY NOT READY TO TEST
system-config-kdump QA-L10N:system-config-kdump transifex
system-config-keyboard QA-L10N:system-config-keyboard transifex
system-config-kickstart transifex THIS IS CURRENTLY NOT READY TO TEST
system-config-language QA-L10N:system-config-language RHZanata
system-config-printer QA-L10N:system-config-printer transifex
system-config-rootpassword QA-L10N:system-config-rootpassword transifex
system-config-services QA-L10N:system-config-services transifex
system-config-users QA-L10N:system-config-users transifex
usermode QA-L10N:usermode transifex
virt-manager QA-L10N:virt-manager transifex
firefox QA-L10N:firefox firefox teams
gdm QA-L10N:gdm gdm
gnome-shell QA-L10N:gnome-shell gnome-shell
control-center QA-L10N:gnome-control-center gnome-control-center
nautilus QA-L10N:nautilus nautilus
shotwell QA-L10N:shotwell shotwell
rhythmbox QA-L10N:rhythmbox rhythmbox
virt-viewer transifex THIS IS CURRENTLY NOT READY TO TEST

[Non-FUAs Application List]