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GNOME 46 Apps

Date 2024-02-22 to 2024-02-26
Time all day

Website QA/Test Days
Matrix #workstation:fedoraproject.org
IRC #fedora-workstation (webirc)
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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, 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?[edit]

This Test Day will focus on GNOME 46 Apps.

Who's available?[edit]

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

You can chat with us on Matrix or IRC. See the infobox on top of the page to learn where to join.

Prerequisites for Test Day[edit]

  • Fedora 40 Workstation nightly ISO image installed on either bare metal or in a virtual machine. (Make sure you have no important data on that system. Things might go wrong -- don't do this on your production machine!)
  • If you already have Fedora 40 Workstation installed, there's no need to reinstall, but just make sure you have the latest updates installed.

How to test?[edit]

Visit the results 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.

Please also try to experiment and explore and perform tasks not mentioned in any of the pre-defined test cases.

Fedora 40 and GNOME 46 include a number of new features that would benefit from additional testing. These include:

  • New camera app: snapshot

Reporting bugs[edit]

Perhaps you've found an already-reported bug. Please look at:

All new bugs should be reported into the GNOME bug tracker. A less-preferred alternative is to file them into Red Hat Bugzilla. Each application has its own separate project, just search for it.

We really need bug reports!
Please note that just mentioning your problem into the comments section on the results page is not very helpful. Very often those problems only happen in specific circumstances, or with specific steps taken. We need the logs and screenshots, and we need to be able to ask you followup questions. Please file bug reports, it's much more useful than a short comment. Thank you!

When filing the bug, it's very helpful to include:

  • exact steps you've performed (and whether you can reproduce it again)
  • screenshots or videos, if applicable
  • system journal (log), which you can retrieve by journalctl -b > journal.txt
  • all output in a terminal, if started from a terminal
  • your system description

If you are unsure about exactly how to file the report or what other information to include, just ask us.

Please make sure to link to the bug when submitting your test result, thanks!

Test Results[edit]

Apps in need of a LOT of testing[edit]

User Profile Calendar Contacts Maps Photos References
Groogee Intel® Core™ i3-3217U × 4
Fail fail
[1]
Pass pass
Pass pass
Pass pass
Warning warn
[2]
  1. Intel® Core™ i3-32
  2. Had to install photos app. No photos from picture folder displayed.
Remsum Dell M4800 - Intel® Core™ i7-4710MQ - Intel® HD Graphics 4600 (HSW GT2) + VERDE - Fedora SilverBlue 40.20240221.n.0
Pass pass
Pass pass
Pass pass
adriend i5-8259U + UEFI + Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-40-20240219.n.0.iso
Pass pass
Pass pass
Pass pass
[1]
Pass pass
  1. City Geolocation OK + OSM Account OK
bittin Fedora 40 - gnome-boxes
Fail fail
[1]
Pass pass
Warning warn
[2]
Fail fail
[3]
  1. did not get any calendar notifications
  2. Shows my location outside of Borås, when i am in Täby outside of Stockholm
  3. Pictures from the photos folder does not show up at all
geraldosimiao Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-40-20240220.n.0 on KVM-Qemu-Virtmanager
Pass pass
Pass pass
Pass pass
Fail fail
[1]
  1. Gnome-photos is not installed, only loupe. Loupe didn't showed images I have on the images folder, must search manually.
jonasp UTM app - ISO install
Pass pass
[1]
Warning warn
[2]
Pass pass
[3]
Fail fail
[4]
  1. All functions passed. Missing i18n in several locations.
  2. App crashed directly after saving a new contact to google account with phone number +4791234567 (correctly formatted mock number). Contact was stored correctly.
  3. Location services does not open from the pop-up message. Works fine after manually enabling from settings.
  4. Photos App was not installed. Photos from Google Account was not added. Photos from photos folder was not added.
lepolau dell vostro 5515 fedora 40 sur dd externe
Pass pass
[1]
Pass pass
Pass pass
[2]
Fail fail
[3]
  1. need to install google calendar. Works great.
  2. test favorites, routes, openstreetmap account, ok
  3. photo is not installed. It starts up, but it's impossible to view the photos in the images folder, or those in online accounts, or to import photos. (org.gnome.Photos:7416): gnome-photos-WARNING **: 14:36:32.490: Unable to fetch the list of available renderers: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Could not activate remote peer: unit failed.
trugul Lenovo Thinkpad T450s, Intel i7-5600U x 4, Mem: 8,0 GiB
Pass pass
Pass pass
Pass pass
[1]
  1. But: after enabling Automatic Device Location, location services pointed to my service providers address, not my home address. Say, if I want to travel a different route, I am unable to change the route between two points.

Apps requiring a bare metal machine[edit]

User Profile Boxes Cheese Disks References
Groogee Intel® Core™ i3-3217U × 4
Pass pass
Pass pass
Remsum Dell M4800 - Intel® Core™ i7-4710MQ - Intel® HD Graphics 4600 (HSW GT2) + VERDE - Fedora SilverBlue 40.20240221.n.0
Pass pass
[1]
Pass pass
[2]
  1. Video recording ok, effects ok
  2. Mount ok, performance test ok, smart test ok
adriend Toshiba Satellite C660 + i3-2330M + NVidia GeForce 315M (nouveau) + Wayland
Pass pass
adriend i5-8259U + UEFI + Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-40-20240219.n.0.iso
Pass pass
[1]
Pass pass
[2]
  1. Download Alpine 3.18 Extended : OK - Install Alpine : OK
  2. Create : OK - Format (ext4) : OK - Image + Restore part : OK - Check FS (ext4) : OK - Edit mount options : OK
bittin Fedora 40 - gnome-boxes
Pass pass
Warning warn
[1]
Pass pass
  1. Cheese works Snapshot only showed a Pink screen when i shared my webcamera into gnome-boxes with the version it ships with but worked with the version from GNOME Nightly Flatpak
geraldosimiao Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-40-20240220.n.0 live session on Acer Aspire V3-571(i7-3632QM CPU)
Pass pass
Warning warn
[1]
Pass pass
  1. Cheese is not installed, used "camera" app. Indeed the live display shows only a pink image when webcam is enabled, but snapshots and recording works as expected and I can browse the files and see them successfully.
jonasp M1 Mac - UTM app - ISO install
Fail fail
[1]
Pass pass
  1. Passing Logitech hd902 webcam from the laptop to the virtual machine the input is glitching. Neither video, nor pictures work as intended.
lepolau dell vostro 5515 fedora 40 sur dd externe
Fail fail
[1]
  1. Only pink screen in Camera, but recording video and image capture still work.

More apps to cover[edit]

User Profile Text Editor Document Viewer Help References
Groogee Intel® Core™ i3-3217U × 4
Fail fail
[1]
Pass pass
Pass pass
  1. App crashed when I tried to save file. Reloaded app and it had recovered file, but then crashed again.
Remsum Dell M4800 - Intel® Core™ i7-4710MQ - Intel® HD Graphics 4600 (HSW GT2) + VERDE - Fedora SilverBlue 40.20240221.n.0
Pass pass
[1]
Pass pass
Pass pass
  1. Test on sh script, coloration ok, no issues on saving
adriend i5-8259U + UEFI + Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-40-20240219.n.0.iso
Pass pass
[1]
Pass pass
Pass pass
  1. gnome-text-editor tested (installed by default), not gedit. Autodetection of PERL code OK and saving file name the editor added .pl extension, great !
asciiwolf Fedora 40 - gnome-boxes
Fail fail
[1]
Pass pass
  1. RHBZ #2265559
bittin Fedora 40 - gnome-boxes
Fail fail
[1]
Pass pass
Pass pass
  1. RHBZ #2265559 when you try to save a .txt file in gnome-text-editor 46 Beta it instantly crashes
geraldosimiao Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-40-20240220.n.0 on KVM-Qemu-Virtmanager
Pass pass
Pass pass
Pass pass
jonasp M1 Mac - UTM app - ISO install
Fail fail
[1]
Pass pass
Pass pass
  1. Editor crashes when saving
lepolau dell vostro 5515 fedora 40 sur dd externe
Fail fail
[1]
Pass pass
Pass pass
  1. crashed when I tried to save file. Reloaded app and it had recovered file, but then crashed again.

Exploratory Testing[edit]

User Profile Exploratory Testing (of any part of GNOME) References
adriend i5-8259U + UEFI + Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-40-20240219.n.0.iso
Pass pass
[1]
Pass pass
[2]
Pass pass
[3]
  1. gnome-system-monitor : OK - Killing process OK
  2. gnome-clocks : OK - Dual clock Dijon, FR/Los Angeles, CA, US - OK in gnome-shell bar
  3. gnome-weather : OK - Displaying in gnome-shell weather OK - memory the city : OK
geraldosimiao Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-40-20240220.n.0 live session on Acer Aspire V3-571(i7-3632QM CPU)
Warning warn
[1]
  1. Missing some pt-BR translations.
godfried i7-2670QM x 8 + Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-40-20240219.n.0.iso
Warning warn
[1]
  1. 1. gnome-characters : Some Punctuation, Currencies, Letters Not OK 2. Missing plugin: gstreamer|1.0|totem|H.264 (Main Profile) decoder|decoder-video/x-h264
jonasp
Warning warn
[1]
  1. Missing translation of "Skip" in Welcome app. When installing with Norwegian localisation the "Skip" button is not translated. Suggested translation "Hopp over"
lepolau dell vostro 5515 fedora 40 sur dd externe
Pass pass
[1]
  1. TESTS libreoffice, weather, clock, video, evolution, keepassXC, printing (HP wifi), simple-scan (HP wifi), disk, ok.