Test Day, March 7

This is the test day results page for March 7 2016. Guidelines on how to conduct the tests can be found on the test days page.

Testers: it will be useful to refer back to the results from the previous two test days, held on February 8 and February 22.

Testers

Tests conducted by:

• AndreasNilsson

• AllanDay

• KunalJain

Results

Initial setup

• Shortlist of input methods is terrible - mostly obscure keyboard layouts that no one will ever want to use.

• Keyboard layout preview windows aren't modal to the parent - you can click next and leave it visible during subsequent stages.
• Privacy - privacy policy window isn't quite modal - the parent window becomes insensitive, but it isn't shaded and you can move the dialog window around.

• Privacy - privacy policy window includes navigation links, which means you can navigate away from the policy text with no way to get back. You can also navigate to external sites, like the Google Play store.

• Time zone - if I search for a location and then cancel, the automatically determined location isn't restored.

• Web view scroll bars aren't looking great. They're similar to regular scroll bars, but much chunkier and positioned too close to the edge of the view. (Screenshot.) - SHOULD BE FIXED

• Online accounts - authentication windows have the same modality issue as privacy policy ones.

• Online accounts - unnecessary padding around web view. Window can be moved around, doesn't look modal to the window below.

• Online accounts Google log in: GNOME logo is malformed

• Wasn't automatically logged into a new session after completing initial setup - was taken to the login screen where I had to enter a password.

Login screen

• Gear button isn't displayed next to the sign in button (you can still keynav to it and open the menu though).

• Wayland session is just called "GNOME" in the menu. Is that correct?
  • AFAIK, yes. gnome-session default to wayland now, falling back to Xorg if there is any problem

Software

• Health ratings sections - Polari only has "system integration" highlighted. Maps doesn't have anything. - THIS IS A CONTINUOUS ISSUE
• Launch buttons don't do anything.

• Post review dialog - no internal padding inside the text box. (Screenshot.) - FIXED

• Post review dialog - post button doesn't become sensitive until you've typed 60 characters. This is confusing and it looks broken - there's no feedback why you can't post a short review. - FIXED

Files

• Path bar button looks super bad. (Screenshot.)

• Folder icons look a bit washed out - almost insensitive.

• Templates folder info bar is indecipherable! What's the "New Document" menu? (Screenshot.) Bug report. Needs strings changes in string freeze period, deferred to next release.

• Other locations - no spinner next to Networks heading.

• Floating status bar is too tall (screenshot). FIXED

Toolkit/theme

• Popover shadows are clipped. (Screenshot.)

Calendar

• Huge week numbers displayed in year view, overlap off the edge of the view. Why are these being shown, anyway? (Screenshot.)

• Empty search popover obscures the search entry box. (Screenshot.)

Shell

• System starts with volume at 0

• When I pressed the super key, the overview shows window thumbnails over the apps grid. (If I then pressed the apps grid button, the window thumbnail is hidden.) (Screenshot.) This happened for a while, and then stopped.

• Location access dialogs don't differentiate the app provided reason

Characters

• Filter dropdown menu has too much padding

Notes

• Notes have lost their background colour.

• Font size and spacing is all off (screenshot).

Settings

• Choose background dialog is oddly constrained (screenshot).

• Sound Settings: When changing out volume using the bar, clicking on area above and below the bar, results in outputting the current volume (not the volume according to point where clicked), but doesn't move the progress bar to that point.

• Privacy - various UI issues with the location services window

Polari

• If you are already connect to a server, it isn't able to connect until you have manually entered a different nick into the server settings dialog.

Photos

• Export in-app notification - "Open" and "Exports Folder" buttons seem a bit ambiguous. Also, having two options in a single transient notification could be frustrating - if you try one, there's no option to try another. Maybe it should just be "Open Exports Folder"?

• Thumbnail in Photos view wasn't updated to match edits.

Maps

• Identifies location even though Location is turned off - Might be a continuous issue?

Web

• scroll bar looks out of place

Videos

• Completely blank when I open it for the first time. (Screenshot.)

• Channels section only includes one channel. Quite disappointing. How do I add more?

• I click through the Rei.tv channel to find a video, get to one, select it: the busy indicator in the top bar spins forever and nothing happens. The video doesn't play and the thumbnail grid stays in place.

• I can still activate selection mode, despite there not being any videos. I can also search.

• Previous, play and next buttons aren't linked (screenshot). Also, there's a slightly awkward layout in the play controls elsewhere.