Testing Fedora15 beta ...

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 00:28:14 +0200
John Obbele <john.obbele at gmail.com> 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
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