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Fedora Test Days
Gnome 3.6
Date 2012-11-08
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 instalment of Fedora Test Day will focus on new features in Gnome 3.6. 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 18 live image or:
  • machine or VM with updated Fedora 18

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 F18, 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
x86_64 ccad161340ee88d28e375074bfa73b9b0684d1e5ec832ec0a6e648d82ce494d5
i686 a0fcf67ebee0f4c547d351240a4fc3dc08359bd9f6d9a21d4d3d2e3ee10dfcb8

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 using soft rendering in Control Center -> Details (llvmpipe)

Test Cases

Under construction
The test cases marked 'still being written' are not yet written. Check back later and they may be available!

GNOME Shell

System Settings

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 Smolt Profile Login Screen Activities Lock Screen Extensions Accessibility References
Sample User HW
none
none
Pass pass
Warning warn
[1]
Fail fail
[2]
  1. ↑ Test pass, but also encountered RHBZ #54321
  2. ↑ RHBZ #12345
mkrizek [HW]
none
Pass pass
Pass pass
none
Pass pass
pschindl [HW]
none
Pass pass
none
none
none

System Settings

User Smolt Profile System Settings Online Accounts - Google Online Accounts - Facebook Online Accounts - Windows Live Online Accounts - MS Exchange Online Accounts - Kerberos References
Sample User HW
none
none
none
Pass pass
Warning warn
[1]
Fail fail
[2]
  1. ↑ Test pass, but also encountered RHBZ #54321
  2. ↑ RHBZ #12345
Dinyar no Smolt on F18
none
Warning warn
[1]
none
none
none
Fail fail
[2]
  1. ↑ Test pass, but encountered RHBZ #874569
  2. ↑ RHBZ #873759

Applications (part 1)

User Smolt Profile Web Documents Files Empathy Empathy (audio) Empathy (video) References
Sample User HW
none
none
none
Pass pass
Warning warn
[1]
Fail fail
[2]
  1. ↑ Test pass, but also encountered RHBZ #54321
  2. ↑ RHBZ #12345

Applications (part 2)

User Smolt Profile Evolution Boxes Disk Usage Disks Clocks Font Viewer References
Sample User HW
none
none
none
Pass pass
Warning warn
[1]
Fail fail
[2]
  1. ↑ Test pass, but also encountered RHBZ #54321
  2. ↑ RHBZ #12345
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