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 instalment of Fedora Test Day will focus on new features in Gnome 3.8.
Read more.
Who's available
The following cast of characters will be available testing, workarounds, bug fixes, and general discussion ...
Prerequisite for Test Day
- bootable USB key or CD/DVD disk with latest Fedora 19 live image or:
- machine or VM with updated Fedora 19
Known issues
- There are two entries for the live image in the boot menu. This is a result of using a special non-debug kernel in the live image to make it run smoothly. I've no idea why it results in two entries on the boot menu, but never mind. Just use the one that's selected and it'll boot fine.
- It's known that the system doesn't wake up properly from the idle time out screen blank / lock at present. On the live image, pressing 'Esc' should wake it up. On an installed system, you can only escape by restarting GNOME Shell from a console. See bug #923364. To avoid this inconvenience, you can disable screen blanking and locking from the Power and Privacy panels in the control panel.
- If you have an Intel chipset system and find it freezes - possibly with a kernel trace visible - repeatedly during testing, try using the kernel parameter intel_pstate=disable. See bug #923102.
- There are known to be several problems in submitting crashes via the 'abrt' automated reporting tool. If you need to report a crash, someone in #fedora-test-day should be able to help you to report it manually.
How to test?
This Test Day has two parts. First part is covered by test cases and it's focused on initial setup and getting you familiar with basic functionality. Second is exploratory testing when you are free to use software how do you like. Don't worry and try to break Gnome in various ways which you expect to work.
Update your machine
If you're running Fedora 19, make sure you have all the current updates for it installed, using the update manager. Or:
Live image
Optionally, you may download a non-destructive live image for your architecture. Tips on using a live image are available at FedoraLiveCD.
Architecture |
SHA256SUM
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x86_64 |
bda651c2ddba6102cc04197b8345beef9d0e128aeb8df0074857f3a630817829
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i686 |
191a9fd5ada686909429b6dbfcaf4bfc882c442ec3d391385dd3d8fa5cc69cc9
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Installation not supported
The Test Day live image contains the Fedora installer, but Fedora 19 is in a very early (pre-Alpha!) state right now, so installing it is strongly discouraged on anything but a disposable test system. Additionally, testing suggests installation is broken on these particular Test Day images.
Software Rendering
Computers with obsolete graphics with buggy 3D drivers and VM hypervisors like KVM or VirtualBox don't have complete 3D support yet. But you can run Gnome Shell using software rendering (llvmpipe driver) on the CPU.
- You may need to uninstall your GPU driver by running
yum remove xorg-x11-drv-nouveau
for example to force enable llvmpipe driver. You will need to restart X by logging out and back in for this to take effect.
- Of lesser interest, but still worth checking, is whether GPUs already on the hardware blacklist work with their native driver instead. This can be checked by commenting out the appropriate entry from
/usr/share/gnome-session/hardware-compatibility
and logging out and back in to Gnome.
Check if Xorg uses software rendering, run: glxinfo
and check output for string: OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x300)
.
Or you can check if you are using software rendering in the Control Center -> Details (llvmpipe)
Test Cases
GNOME Shell
System Settings
Online Accounts
Applications
Test Results
If you have problems with any of the tests, report a bug to Bugzilla for the appropriate component. 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. Once you have completed the tests, add your results to the Results table below, following the example results from the first line as a template. The first column should be your name with a link to your User page in the Wiki if you have one, and the second should be a link to the Smolt profile of the system you tested. For each test case, use the result template to enter your result, as shown in the example result lines.
GNOME Shell
User
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Initial Setup
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Login Screen
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Activities
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Lock Screen
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Message Tray
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Extensions
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Accessibility
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Gnome Classic mode
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References
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Sample User
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none
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none
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none
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none
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none
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pass
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warn [1]
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fail [2]
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vrutkovs
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none
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none
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pass
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warn [1]
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none
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pass
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pass
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none
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fholec
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none
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warn [1]
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warn [3]
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none
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none
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warn [4]
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pass
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- ↑ Cannot change layout while logging in (not even using shortcut). Problem is when password contains characters not from current layout
- ↑ RHBZ #924266
- ↑ Option 'Brightness & Lock' is not present in System Settings
- ↑ System is very slow after zoom is turned on
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bnater
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none
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fail [1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
[6]
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warn [7]
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warn [8]
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none
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none
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none
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pass
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- ↑ step 2. Keyboard layout is not the same as I have selected on login screen RHBZ #924360
- ↑ I'm not able to continue working after idle/screen off (live image, Esc doesn't work)
- ↑ Keyboard layout have to be set for login screen separately??? RHBZ #924371
- ↑ Sometimes when I wanted to switch between users using "switch user" no user accounts are displayed, just gray screen. Then when I press ctrl+alt+F2, lock screen of current user is displayed RHBZ #924795
- ↑ When I unlock "User" dialog, root account is displayed. When I add regular user, root user account disappeare. Confusing. RHBZ #924800
- ↑ "User" dialog. There should be no option "enable account" when password is not set for user. When you select it, account is switched back to disabled. RHBZ #924813
- ↑ step 6. doesn't work for Shotwell application RHBZ #924808
- ↑ 1. login 2. lock screen 3. "log as another user" 4. click on currently logged user - you have to type password, then you have to type password to unlock screen again RHBZ #924816
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Jeff Bastian
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warn [1] [2]
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fail [3] [4]
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warn [5] [6] [7]
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none
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none
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none
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none
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warn [8]
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lzachar
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none
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pass [1]
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none
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none
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none
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none
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warn [2] [3]
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none
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- ↑ layout selection
- ↑ On screen keyboard has US layout only (no way to switch)
- ↑ high-contrast does nothing on gdm login screen
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Jan Scotka
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fail [1]
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warn [2]
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pass
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warn [3]
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none
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none
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none
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none
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- ↑ Unable to install to disc RHBZ #924229 propably EFI
- ↑ No created users via command adduser listed in gdm list of user, aviable only in case created password via passwd
- ↑ usability: Unlocking of screen is very unintuitive (no help that you have slide from bottom up)
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Jaroslav Škarvada
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pass
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pass
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none
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none
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none
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none
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Luya Tshimbalanga
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warn [1]
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pass
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pass
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inprogress
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inprogress
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inprogress
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pass
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pass [2]
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- ↑ Resuming temporarily froze on LiveUSB
- ↑ A right-click for opened applications on taskbar would be nice
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lbrabec
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none
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warn [1]
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warn [2]
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warn [3]
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none
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pass
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pass
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warn [4]
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- ↑ Cannot change layout while logging in
- ↑ Step 6. doesn't work for Shotwell application
- ↑ 1. login 2. lock screen 3. "log as another user" 4. click on currently logged user - you have to type password, then you have to type password to unlock screen again
- ↑ Session selection not shown when no password is set
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feonsu
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none
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pass
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pass
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warn [1]
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none
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pass
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pass
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pass
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- ↑ 1. login 2. lock screen 3. "log as another user" 4. click on currently logged user - you have to type password, then you have to type password to unlock screen again. I must type password twice, same with two logged in users and switching each other
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mkyral
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none
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fail [1][2][3][4]
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warn [5][6][7]
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pass
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inprogress
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pass
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inprogress
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pass [8]
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- ↑ In most cases, after "switch users" gdm displays just gray background with no user list.
- ↑ In most cases, gdm darkens display by ~50% for no reason. Darkened display prevails even in the started user session unless it is brightened manually (by shortcut. May be HW related, Asus K50IJ)
- ↑ When adding/removing user in the control center module, the root user disappears from the list. Can be added back by lock/unlock
- ↑ Unintuitive UI for adding keyboard layouts. No way to reorder keyborad layouts once added.
- ↑ 6. shotwell keeps opening on first screen
- ↑ Tap to click and two fingers scroll shall be enabled by default as using touchpad without these two features is a pain
- ↑ AVC denial message observed during gdm keyboard configuration "type=AVC msg=audit(1363951875.563:297): avc: denied { unlink } for pid=8414 comm="systemd-localed" name="00-keyboard.conf" dev="dm-0" ino=170071 scontext=system_u:system_r:systemd_localed_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:xserver_etc_t:s0 tclass=file" RHBZ #924776
- ↑ Right click in the taskbar would be very nice.
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pschindl
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none
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fail [1] [2]
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warn [3]
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pass
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pass
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none
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none
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none
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jsedlak
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none
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fail [1] [2]
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pass
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warn [3]
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none
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pass
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pass
|
pass
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jskladan
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fail probably [1]
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pass
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pass
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warn [2]
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none
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pass
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pass
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pass
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- ↑ RHBZ #924385
- ↑ Also seeing the "two passwords" behavior.
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mkrizek
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none
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pass
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pass
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warn [1]
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none
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none
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none
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none
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- ↑ Need two passwords to log in
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Igor Gnatenko
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none
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warn [1]
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warn [2]
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pass
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pass
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warn [4]
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pass
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- ↑ Create user with password in russian language.. In gdm there is no place to switch languages.
- ↑ 1. Run application; 2. Logout; 3. Login; 4. Not show application in "Recently applications"
- ↑ RHBZ #924816
- ↑ If long to increase scale - gnome crash
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Wutao85
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none
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none
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pass
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none
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none
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pass
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pass
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none
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satellit
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none
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none
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pass
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none
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none
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none
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pass
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pass [1]
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- ↑ f18-netinstall x86_64 yum distro-sync --releasever=19 --nogpgcheck --skip-broken
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System Settings
User
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System Settings
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Privacy Settings
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Sharing Settings
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Search Settings
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Color Settings
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References
|
Sample User
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none
|
none
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pass
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warn [1]
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fail [2]
|
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vrutkovs
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warn [1]
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pass
|
pass
|
pass
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none
|
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fholec
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warn [1][2]
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pass
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none
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warn [3][4]
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none
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- ↑ System froze while changing background (only once)
- ↑ Cannot drag & drop images to background images
- ↑ Search query responses were displayed 4 times the same window (only once)
- ↑ Search for Users -> 'use' string search displays three items from settings (Users item is not displayed since it is 4th item, would be better if more relevant were displayed first)
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vbenes
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warn [1]
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warn [2]
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none
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warn [3]
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none
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- ↑ print test page doesn't work RHBZ #924329
- ↑ after switching oon/off stealth mode the other options state is not preserved RHBZ #924343
- ↑ cannot turn on/off photos search RHBZ #924303
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kparal
|
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none
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none
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none
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none
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feonsu
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warn [1][2]
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pass
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pass
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pass
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none
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- ↑ print test page doesn't work RHBZ #924329.
- ↑ I can add only network printers, not local.
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jskladan
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fail [1]
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none
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none
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none
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none
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- ↑ OSD is not shown when changing volume with HW keys
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pschindl
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warn [1]
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none
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pass
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warn [2]
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none
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- ↑ [1] - nautilus crashes when setting background image
- ↑ cannot turn on/off photos search RHBZ #924303
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Igor Gnatenko
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warn [1]
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pass
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pass
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pass
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none
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- ↑ Drag'n'Drop background not working
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Online Accounts
Applications
User
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Web
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Documents
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Files
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Empathy
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Empathy (audio)
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Empathy (video)
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Evolution
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Boxes
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Font Viewer
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References
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Sample User
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none
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none
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none
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none
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none
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none
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pass
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warn [1]
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fail [2]
|
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vbenes
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none
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warn [1]
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none
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none
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none
|
none
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none
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none
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none
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- ↑ cannot zoom with numerical +/- RHBZ #924379
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vhumpa
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warn [1]
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warn [2]
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none
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none
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none
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none
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none
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none
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none
|
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kparal
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warn [1]
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none
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warn [2]
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none
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none
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none
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none
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none
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none
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lbrabec
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fail [1]
[2]
[3]
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none
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warn [4]
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pass
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none
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none
|
pass
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none
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warn [5]
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- ↑ Unable to find place, where one can enable extensions
- ↑ Webapp can be launched from popup after creation, but no such app can be found in shell
- ↑ Password is saved and works, but no such entry is shown in personal data
- ↑ gnome#696372
- ↑ application is slow
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jskladan
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none
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pass
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none
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pass
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none
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none
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none
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none
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none
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pschindl
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none
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pass
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none
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warn [1]
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none
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none
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pass
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none
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none
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- ↑ empathy is complaining about untrusted certificates when I add accounts from online accounts
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Igor Gnatenko
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none
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pass
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none
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warn [1]
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warn [2]
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pass
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pass
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none
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warn [3]
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- ↑ Empathy is complaining about untrusted certificates when I add accounts from online accounts
- ↑ Me don't hear
- ↑ Font do not installing
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Applications (2)