2020-02-20 Gnome 3.36 Test Day

Fedora Test Day

GNOME 3.36

Date	2020-02-20
Time	all day

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

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What to test?[edit]

Today's installment of Fedora Test Day will focus on GNOME 3.36

See Kalev's instructions video here: https://youtu.be/qbssBE6YB3s

Who's available?[edit]

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

Development - Kalev Lember (kalev), Allan Day (aday)
Quality Assurance - Adam Williamson (adamw), Sumantro Mukherjee (sumantrom), Kamil Páral (kparal), coremodule (coremodule)

Prerequisites for Test Day[edit]

A Fedora 32 Workstation 20200220.n.0 nightly image either on bare metal or in VM (please make sure you have no important data on that installation, things might go wrong -- don't do this on your production machine!).

Enough free space on HDD

How to test?[edit]

Do exploratory testing[edit]

Use the latest Fedora 32 Workstation that includes GNOME 3.35.91 and see if you can find anything that's crashing or not working right. In that case, file a bug!

What to focus on?[edit]

3.36 has quite a lot of changes, including:

New login/unlock UI - upstream test plan
Updated user settings - background, users, about, privacy, region & language (formats dialog)
New Do Not Disturb feature - can be activated from the calendar popover or Settings
App folders in the activities overview - new drag and drop functionality, and new UI for renaming each folder
System dialogs - have had a UI refresh, in particular it's worth checking the authentication dialog
Extensions - new app for managing shell extensions

More details on the changes can be seen here.

Run the tests[edit]

Visit the result page and click on the column title links to see the tests that need to be run: most column titles are links to a specific test case. Follow the instructions there, then enter your results by clicking the Enter result button for the test.

Reporting bugs[edit]

We have two separate places to file bugs. First, downstream in Fedora bug tracker. This is mostly useful for issues with packaging and for issues that need tracking downstream (blocker bugs for F32): Red Hat Bugzilla.

Second, there's upstream GNOME Gitlab that's useful for issues that are likely not Fedora-specific. If you file an issue downstream that looks like it needs a code fix, please file it upstream as well, to make sure all relevant people get notified of the issue.

If you are unsure about exactly how to file the report or what other information to include, just ask on IRC #fedora-test-day or #fedora-qa and we will help you.

Test Results[edit]

Basic[edit]

User	Profile	Gnome Accessibility	Gnome Classic mode	Gnome Initial Setup	Gnome Lock Screen	Gnome Login Screen	Gnome Maps	Gnome Music	Gnome Web	Gnome Terminal	Desktop update notification	References
aday			fail ^[1]	pass							pass ^[2]	↑ When I log into classic mode, it seems that only some of the extensions are active - I get the different theme and places menu, but I'm missing the application menu and window list. ↑ Do not disturb seems to work as expected. However, the switch in the control center is the wrong way round: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/issues/878 Media controls work in the calendar popover.
ankursinha	Gnome Boxes on F31	pass			pass		pass ^[1]					↑ No providers found for public transport in London :(
atim	CPU: Quad Core AMD Athlon X4 845; NVIDIA GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 6GB] driver: nvidia v: 440.59					warn ^[1]						↑ No entry field if type wrong password in 3.35.91 beta release. Filed upstream bug. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/issues/562
coremodule	Thinkpad T480S	pass			pass		pass	pass	pass
dgrigorev	qemu/kvm			pass ^[1]								↑ gnome-shell --mode=initial-setup -r fails with (gnome-shell:2432): mutter-WARNING **: 20:56:59.346: Failed to create backend: Could not take control: GDBus.Error:System.Error.EBUSY: Device or resource busy
msandy					pass ^[1]							↑ Therre was a small issue when it came to using the mouse to click and place the text cursor in the password field it doesnt place the cusor where you click it is off by several spaces.
msandy	Dell XPS 13 9380 16 gb ram core i7 Whisky lake				pass ^[1]							↑ Therre was a small issue when it came to using the mouse to click and place the text cursor in the password field it doesnt place the cusor where you click it is off by several spaces.
pnemade	WS ,KVM, mr_IN, x86_64	pass ^[1]	pass ^[2]	pass ^[3]	pass ^[4]	pass ^[5]		pass	pass	pass ^[6]		↑ tested all the a11y setting switches, working fine. ↑ able to login into Classic session ↑ g-i-s worked fine. However, the command given to force it again in test case is not working. ↑ I think just clicking on lock screen gives you password entry box, so no need to slide upwards ↑ worked fine gdm login screen, user switching and its preferences. ↑ Worked fine with all suggested changes in test case
roypen	Bare Metal - ThinkPad T430, i5-3320M, 8 GB RAM	pass ^[1]	pass ^[2]	pass	pass ^[3]	pass	pass	pass		pass		↑ All accessibility features are working as they should. ↑ "5. Check that nautilus shows icons on the desktop (Note: If the Tweak Tool is installed, this could be overridden regardless of being in classic mode)" Maybe I didn't understand that point... Nautilus only shows Desktop folder in Home but does not show its contents on the desktop. I didn't install Tweak Tool or Desktop Icons extension. ↑ "5. (...) Check "Show notifications" to enable notifications on lock screen." - Notifications are displayed on the screen, but without detailed content.
roypen	qemu/kvm (2 cores, 4GB RAM) on ThinkPad T430								pass		fail ^[1]	↑ The desktop didn't notify me about the updates. I executed pkmon, but the system didn't start downloading any updates. I forced it manually but still despite the available updates, the notification did not pop up.

Gnome Shell[edit]

User	Profile	Activities	Extensions	Dash	Extensions gnome org	Overview Search	Workspaces	References
ankursinha	Gnome Boxes on F31	pass	fail ^[1]	pass	pass	pass	pass	↑ RHBZ #1794890 Background logo extension does not work
atim	CPU: Quad Core AMD Athlon X4 845; NVIDIA GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 6GB] driver: nvidia v: 440.59					warn ^[1]		↑ Margins look weird in 3.35.91 beta release. Filed upstream bug. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/2234
bkdwt	Fedora 32 on Bare Metal / Xeon E3-1241v3 + RX 570 4GB Mesa 20		fail ^[1]					↑ 3.35.91 Regression, Extensions application problem (Note that this was working correctly on 3.35.90). When opening the new Extensions application and having at least one "Manually installed" extension, no extensions are shown, even if they're all disabled. After globally disabling/enabling them, the "Manually installed" extensions won't show up and the extension's settings won't open. The Tweaks application correctly shows the installed extensions, but the settings won't launch as well. Via: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/2240 Fix released. Merge on Fedora 32 branch.

Gnome Online Accounts[edit]

User	Profile	Add Facebook	Add Google	Add IMAP and SMTP	Add Kerberos	Add MS Exchange	Add Windows Live	Add ownCloud	References
roypen	qemu/kvm (2 cores, 4GB RAM) on ThinkPad T430		warn ^[1]						↑ Once you have logged in, the cancel button should disappear. - OK Once you have allowed access, the dialog should disappear and the new account should appear in the panel. 0 OK GMail should show up in Evolution. - OK Google Calendars should show up in Evolution. - FAIL . My Google calendars do not appear in the list of available calendars. Google Contacts should show up in Contacts and Evolution. - OK GTalk should show up in Empathy. - can't install Empathy. Is it still available? Google Documents should show up in Documents. - OK You should not be prompted for a password to use the applications unless you use 2-factor authentication. - OK

Disk Management[edit]

User	Profile	Basic	LVM	Modify	Multipath	Remote	References

Exploratory Testing[edit]

User	Profile	Exploratory Testing	References
edasantos	gnome-boxes running on rawhide	fail ^[1]	↑ changing wallpaper on the control center breaks the session, and the control center no longer works.
kparal		fail ^[1]	↑ users created from cmdline have extra large icons in gdm, reported as https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/issues/563
roypen		warn ^[1]	↑ I had to do some tests on virtual machine due to dnf metadata download error on bare metal. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1806256

[1] When I log into classic mode, it seems that only some of the extensions are active - I get the different theme and places menu, but I'm missing the application menu and window list.

[2] Do not disturb seems to work as expected. However, the switch in the control center is the wrong way round: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/issues/878 Media controls work in the calendar popover.

[3] No providers found for public transport in London :(

[4] No entry field if type wrong password in 3.35.91 beta release. Filed upstream bug. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/issues/562

[5] -shell --mode=initial-setup -r fails with (gnome-shell:2432): mutter-WARNING **: 20:56:59.346: Failed to create backend: Could not take control: GDBus.Error:System.Error.EBUSY: Device or resource busy

[6] Therre was a small issue when it came to using the mouse to click and place the text cursor in the password field it doesnt place the cusor where you click it is off by several spaces.

[7] Therre was a small issue when it came to using the mouse to click and place the text cursor in the password field it doesnt place the cusor where you click it is off by several spaces.

[8] tested all the a11y setting switches, working fine.

[9] to login into Classic session

[10] -i-s worked fine. However, the command given to force it again in test case is not working.

[11] I think just clicking on lock screen gives you password entry box, so no need to slide upwards

[12] worked fine gdm login screen, user switching and its preferences.

[13] Worked fine with all suggested changes in test case

[14] All accessibility features are working as they should.

[15] "5. Check that nautilus shows icons on the desktop (Note: If the Tweak Tool is installed, this could be overridden regardless of being in classic mode)" Maybe I didn't understand that point... Nautilus only shows Desktop folder in Home but does not show its contents on the desktop. I didn't install Tweak Tool or Desktop Icons extension.

[16] "5. (...) Check "Show notifications" to enable notifications on lock screen." - Notifications are displayed on the screen, but without detailed content.

[17] The desktop didn't notify me about the updates. I executed pkmon, but the system didn't start downloading any updates. I forced it manually but still despite the available updates, the notification did not pop up.

[18] RHBZ #1794890 Background logo extension does not work

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