This test day is part of the Fit and Finish initiative.
| DATE | TIME | WHERE |
| Tue July 7, 2009 | From 12:00 to 21:00 UTC (8am -> 5pm EDT) | #fedora-fit-and-finish) |
What to test?
Today's instalment of Fedora Test Day will focus on user experience issues of display configuration, including multi-monitor setups, monitor hotplug, projectors, etc. We explicitly want to focus on user experience issues here, which means we want to find problems where typical user tasks that involve display configuration don't work as expected, not test an individual feature in depth.
The primary tool for display configuration on the desktop spin is gnome-display-properties, in the menus under System → Preferences → Display. Another important interface to the display configuration system is the 'display' hotkey (the key that produces the XF86Display keysym) that many laptops have. On Thinkpads, this is the key combination Fn-F7, on HP laptops it is Fn-F4.
Who's available
The following cast of characters will be available for testing, workarounds, bug fixes, and general discussion: Matthias Clasen, Adam Jackson, Dave Airlie
Prerequisites for Test Day
- An uptodate rawhide installation or a recent desktop spin live cd (provided we can produce working rawhide live cds in time). If you don't have a rawhide installation, your input will still be valuable if it is based on F11.
- A variety of display hardware: external monitors, projectors, etc.
- A good mood. Remember; while we are poking into things that may make us angry or frustrated, we are doing it to make things better
How to test
Here are some tasks involving displays and their configuration:
- Boot with multiple displays
- Does the desktop 'fall apart' when a new display is plugged in ?
- Do fullscreen apps handle extra displays in a good way ?
- Does presentation software do the right thing with projectors ?
- Does gnome-display-properties show the right names for your displays ?
- Does gnome-display-properties let you arrange the monitors in the way you want ?
- Do laptop display-switch keys do something sensible ?
- Do multiple successive configuration changes work ?
- Does rotation behave as expected with 3D apps, video, etc ?
- Are there rendering issues when using large desktop configs with a compositor like gnome-shell or compiz ?
- Are all expected outputs detected ?
- Are any unexpected outputs detected ?
Issues that were identified
| Tester | Description | Bug references |
| mclasen | Label colors in capplet and status icon don't match | #586193 |