Re: Testing Fedora15 beta ...

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 00:28:14 +0200
John Obbele <john.obbele(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  Hi !
>  
>  I'm just yet another anonymous Fedora user. If possible, I'd like
>  to help testing this F15 release. 
Cool. Welcome. 

>  But before I expose my problems I would like to know if there is
>  a webpage listing commonly reported bugs for XFCE and their
>  status or a magic bugzilla button for this ? (AFAIK, there is
>  only https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-17_Xfce ) 
We do have a tracker bug.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678916

and a blocker bug: 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678917

Things that block release or are nice to have for release depend on
those. 

>  As for my experience in testing both the alpha.TC1 and the beta,
>  I've mostly noticed:
>  
>  [known bugs]
>  * some applications are ugly (I presume they are Gtk+3 programs:
>    nm-applet, evince, …) 
yeah. 

>  * lack of a correct DM (LXDM is really awful with dual-screen and
>    I would gladly help you patch or test a replacement). 
See thread earlier in this mailing list. ;) 

>  * keyring is not automagicaly unlocked. 
Make sure you check the 'run gnome-services on startup' checkbox in
session advanced. 

>  [not so known bugs ?]
>  * some icons are missing in some menus. e.g. when right-clicking
>    on the desktop, icons for the sub-categories "Preferences",
>    "Development" and "Games" are missing. (and strangely, when
>    using the 'start here' button, default icons are provided for
>    these entries -_-) 
Yeah, we still need to clean up all those. 

>  * same problem with panel->Add new items. 4 icons are missing :(
Some of these should now be fixed. 

>  * the systray is sometimes blinking. Does anyone notice the same
>    problem or is it due to an issue with my systray applications ? 
The entire tray? I have not seen that here. 

>  * streaming music or video over sftp is still not working with
>    parole. 
Please file a bug on that. ;) 

>  Otherwise, everything seems good. My ATI card is working
>  (including Xv and OpenGl!), Thunar-gio does the job, FF4 & webM
>  runs smoothly, xmonad is still stable and GHC 7.x wonderful. 
Cool. 

kevin