2011-04-21 GNOME3 Final

Fedora Test Days

GNOME 3 (pre-F15 Final)

Date	2011-04-21
Time	all day

Website	http://www.gnome3.org
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 instalment of Fedora Test Day will focus on GNOME 3. This is the final of the three Fedora 15 Test Days focusing on GNOME 3. The goal of these events is to test as much as possible of the functionality of GNOME 3 to ensure that it works correctly and provides the necessary features for a day-to-day usable desktop.

Big changes ahead
Remember, this ain't your momma's GNOME - the overall user experience of GNOME 3 is very different from GNOME 2. It's fine to ask about the changes and make feature requests, but before filing a bug on something that's 'missing' from GNOME 2, please ask in #fedora-test-day to make sure it's not an intended change. There should always be someone there who can answer your question. Thanks!

Yay, 3.0 out!
This time, as GNOME 3 has been released recently, today's test day can provide a nice way for you to get familiar with the final version of the new desktop, its looks and all the important functionality - especially if you are new to it.

Who's available

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

Development - Matthias Clasen (mclasen)
Quality Assurance - Adam Williamson (adamw), Vítězslav Humpa (vhumpa), Radek Lát (rlat)

Prerequisite for Test Day

An updated Fedora 15 pre-release, or the specific Test Day live image.
Your hardware profile uploaded to Smolt according to these instructions

For most testing, a graphics adapter capable of compositing: we are aiming to support all NVIDIA GeForce adapters, all Intel adapters except for GMA 500 (Poulsbo) and pre-i915 (i8xx) adapters, and all ATI/AMD Radeon adapters. If you are using an unsupported adapter, you can still help us with fallback testing - see below.

Unsupported adapters
Some adapters are known to be currently not working or problematic with the Shell. NVIDIA GeForce 400 series (Fermi / NVC0) adapters currently have no acceleration support and should fall back to compatibility mode (see the fallback testing section below). GeForce FX adapters may exhibit poor performance. Interaction may fail with GeForce 2 / GeForce 4 MX adapters, making the desktop effectively unusable.

Shell will not work in VirtualBox or virt-manager / KVM
Virtual machines without 3D acceleration pass-through support will not be suitable for most testing: the Shell will not run in these configurations. Also, even though some VirtualBox editions have passthrough support, the current Fedora implementation does not support it, so Shell will not work in VirtualBox either. If you are using a virtual machine, you can still help us with fallback testing - see below.

Also helpful, if you have or can get them:

Additional displays (monitors, TVs...)
As many storage devices as you can access
Optical media (burned, commercially pressed, and blank burnable, CDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays)
Wi-fi/bluetooth enabled networking devices
Graphics adapters, virtual machines, or driver configurations not capable of compositing, to test fallback support (see below)

How to test?

Live image

Verification
Please check the SHA256SUM is correct before booting!

You may download a non-destructive pre-Fedora 15 live image for your architecture. Tips on using a live image are available at FedoraLiveCD.

Architecture	SHA256SUM
i686	`9af0d24337a435d9c3f10fb34d1f16af7d6496b10ca0facf1a0630b45a66d544`
x86_64	`7d69f8324afc3de809144ff4104879c2240f3017e4db84cf5ed0d0259abb83e1`

Using the live image is the easiest way to participate in testing for most people, but alternatively you can:

Update your machine to Fedora 15

If you are already running or want to try the pre-release of Fedora 15, install Fedora 15 Beta and then update to the latest packages. Using the live image is easier and highly recommended.

Perform testing

Please perform as many of the test cases listed as you have the time and the resources to complete, and fill out your results in the table below. You do not need a Fedora account to fill in the table.

Network configuration problems
GNOME 3's network configuration interface is not yet feature complete and cannot handle some cases that GNOME 2's could. If a feature you need to set up your network is missing, use the nm-connection-editor tool. See this Common Bugs entry for more details.

Fallback testing

QA:Testcase_gnome3_fallback

This test case will test that GNOME falls back correctly to a 'classic' environment if your hardware does not support the GNOME Shell. If your hardware starts GNOME Shell correctly, please leave the fallback test column empty, and fill in the other test result columns. If your hardware is unable to start GNOME Shell, but falls back correctly to a classic environment, please mark the fallback test in the results table as 'pass', and leave the other test columns empty. If your hardware is unable to start GNOME Shell, and does not fall back correctly to a classic environment, please mark the fallback test in the results table as 'fail', file a bug against gnome-session, and leave the other test columns empty.

Regular tests

QA:Testcase_desktop_date
QA:Testcase_desktop_keyring
QA:Testcase_totem_basic
QA:Testcase_generic_video_multihead
QA:Testcase_desktop_uri NOTE: Use System Settings -> System Info -> Default Applications to configure your preferred applications
QA:Testcase_desktop_message_notification
QA:Testcase_gnome-shell_dash
QA:Testcase_gnome-shell_workspaces
QA:Testcase_gnome-shell_overview_search
QA:Testcase_desktop_login
QA:Testcase_gnome-terminal_profile
QA:Testcase_desktop_common_shortcuts
QA:Testcase_firefox_media

QA:Testcase_desktop_menus
QA:Testcase_gnome-bluetooth_send_file
QA:Testcase_firefox_browse
QA:Testcase_vino_vinagre_connect
QA:Testcase_gnome_desktop_background
QA:Testcase_desktop_non_gtk_apps
QA:Testcase_desktop_lock_screen
QA:Testcase_desktop_automount NOTE: there will is no file manager on the Desktop, see this mail for the design decision behind it
QA:Testcase_desktop_volume
QA:Testcase_evince_file_display - (kick out candidate)
QA:Testcase_brasero_burn - (kick out candidate)
QA:Testcase_generic_video_glx

Unplanned testing

As well as running the formal test cases, you can help simply by running GNOME 3 and reporting any problems you come across in the course of your typical use, even if they do not match up with any of the test cases. Please remember, though, that just being different from GNOME 2 is not necessarily a problem, and check in #fedora-test-day before you file a bug.

Test Results

If you have problems with any of the tests, try and report a bug. Most bugs in this event should be reported to GNOME Bugzilla. Bugs that are clearly issues in Fedora GNOME integration should be reported to Fedora Bugzilla. You will need an account to report bugs, but creating one is easy, and we will help you do this if you ask in IRC.

If you are not sure of the appropriate component, please check in IRC before filing, there are many possibilities. 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 describe your result, following the examples in the Sample user row.

User	Smolt Profile	Fallback	Date	Keyring	Totem	Multihead	URIs	Notification	Dash	Workspaces	Search	Login	Terminal	Shortcuts	References
Sample User	HW	none	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	warn ^[1]	fail ^[2]	↑ Test pass, but also encountered RHBZ #54321 ↑ RHBZ #12345
Andre Robatino	HW	pass	none	none	none	none	none	none	none	none	none	none	none	none
David Le Sage (Red Hat)	HW	pass	pass	warn ^[1]	none	warn ^[2]	pass	none	pass	fail ^[3]	pass	pass	fail ^[4]	pass	↑ Test pass, but abrt cannot save passwords: RHBZ #692340 ↑ Test pass for GNOME 3, but FWIW, KDE 4.6 cannot detect dual monitors. ↑ RHBZ #695222 RHBZ #695227 ↑ Making background transparent still doesn't work: RHBZ #683274
Tao Wu	HW	none	pass	pass	pass	none	pass	pass	pass	fail ^[1]	pass	pass	fail ^[2]	warn ^[3]	↑ RHBZ #698585 ↑ RHBZ #683274 ↑ The F1 shortcut doesn't work on my system: RHBZ #683274
Walter Justen	HW	none	pass	pass	pass	none	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	fail ^[1]	pass	↑ Making background transparent still doesn't work: RHBZ #683274
Pavol Celuch	HW	none	none	pass	pass	pass ^[1]	pass	pass	pass	fail ^[2]	pass	pass ^[3]	fail ^[4]	pass	↑ Test pass for GNOME 3. ↑ RHBZ #695222 ↑ RHBZ #680147 ↑ Transparent background doesn't work: RHBZ #683274
Nicolas Kaiser	HW	none	pass	pass	none	none	pass	pass ^[1]	pass	none	none	none	none	none	↑ Creating a new jabber.org account failed with "network error". Connecting to an existing jabber.org account worked nicely.
User	Smolt Profile	Fallback	Date	Keyring	Totem	Multihead	URIs	Notification	Dash	Workspaces	Search	Login	Terminal	Shortcuts	References

User	Smolt Profile	Web media	Menus	Bluetooth	Browse	VNC	Background	NonGtk	Lock	Mount	Volume	Evince	Burn	GL	References
Sample User	HW	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	warn ^[1]	fail ^[2]	↑ Test pass, but also encountered RHBZ #54321 ↑ RHBZ #12345
David Le Sage (Red Hat)	HW	pass	pass	none	pass	none	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	none	none
Tao Wu	HW	pass	pass	none	pass	none	pass	none	pass	none	none	none	none	none
Walter Justen	HW	pass	pass	none	pass	none	none	none	none	none	none	none	none	none
Pavol Celuch	HW	pass	pass ^[1]	fail ^[2]	pass	none	pass	pass	warn ^[3]	pass	pass	pass	none	pass	↑ system-config-authentication icon is fuzzy RHBZ #698244 ↑ RHBZ #698556 ↑ Doesn't lock the screen after set interval
Nicolas Kaiser	HW	none	none	none	none	none	none	none	none	none	none	none	none	none
User	Smolt Profile	Web media	Menus	Bluetooth	Browse	VNC	Background	NonGtk	Lock	Mount	Volume	Evince	Burn	GL	References

[1] Test pass, but also encountered RHBZ #54321

[2] RHBZ #12345

[3] Test pass, but abrt cannot save passwords: RHBZ #692340

[4] Test pass for GNOME 3, but FWIW, KDE 4.6 cannot detect dual monitors.

[5] RHBZ #695222 RHBZ #695227

[6] Making background transparent still doesn't work: RHBZ #683274

[7] RHBZ #698585

[8] RHBZ #683274

[9] The F1 shortcut doesn't work on my system: RHBZ #683274

[10] Making background transparent still doesn't work: RHBZ #683274

[11] Test pass for GNOME 3.

[12] RHBZ #695222

[13] RHBZ #680147

[14] Transparent background doesn't work: RHBZ #683274

[15] Creating a new jabber.org account failed with "network error". Connecting to an existing jabber.org account worked nicely.

[16] Test pass, but also encountered RHBZ #54321

[17] RHBZ #12345

[18] system-config-authentication icon is fuzzy RHBZ #698244

[19] RHBZ #698556

[20] Doesn't lock the screen after set interval

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