GNOME 46 Testing

[joebonrichie]

Known Issues or WIPs

• Mouse cursor is blurry over GTK4 applications when display scaling is enabled
• You may experience visual artifacting with the new gtk4 renderer with older hardware (set GSK_RENDERER=gl in environment to use the old renderer)
• snapshot is laggy

New Applications

• gnome-connections

Testing List

Testing Notes:

1. This list may not be comprehensive. Feel free to report other things!
2. github may indicate something is complete even if it isn't explicitly checked off. Ignore that and only look for the checkbox.

• [x] Bluetooth
  • Tested with Bluetooth pairing in GNOME Control Center with phone.
• [ ] Desktops
  • [ ] Budgie Desktop
    • [x] GDM (when co-installed with GNOME Shell)
    • [ ] LightDM + slick-greeter
  • [x] GNOME Shell
  • [x] GDM
• [x] Geolocation
  • Tested with GNOME Weather
• [ ] IBUS
• [x] Networking
  • [ ] Shares (Samba via Nautilus)
  • [x] Wireless
  • [x] Wired
• [ ] Applications
  • [x] Baobab (Disk Usage Analyzer)
  • [x] Celluloid
  • [x] D-Spy
  • [x] Dconf Editor
  • [x] Evince
  • [x] Evolution
  • [x] Eye of GNOME
  • [x] File Roller (archive)
  • [x] Four-in-a-Row
  • [x] GEdit
  • [x] GHex
  • [x] GNote
  • [x] GNOME 2048
  • [ ] GNOME Boxes
  • [ ] GNOME Builder
  • [x] GNOME Calculator
  • [x] GNOME Calendar
  • [x] GNOME Characters
  • [x] GNOME Clocks
  • [x] GNOME Connections
  • [x] GNOME Console
  • [x] GNOME Contacts
  • [ ] GNOME Control Center (Settings)
  • [x] Background
  • [x] Bluetooth
  • [ ] Devices
    • [ ] Color
    • [x] Displays
    • [ ] Keyboard
    • [ ] Mouse & Touchpad
    • [ ] Printers
    • [x] Removable Media
  • [x] Networking
    • [x] Wi-Fi
    • [x] Wired
  • [x] Notifications
  • [x] Online Accounts
  • [x] Power
  • [x] Search (only applies to GNOME Shell)
  • [ ] Sharing
  • [x] Sound
  • [ ] Accessibility
    • [ ] Seeing
    • [ ] Hearing
    • [ ] Typing
    • [ ] Pointing and Clicking
    • [ ] Zoom
  • [x] Privacy and Security
    • [x] Screen Lock
    • [x] Location (tested via gweather)
    • [x] File History & Wastebasket
    • [x] Cameras (tested via disabling snapshot camera access)
    • [x] Device Security
  • [ ] System
    • [x] About
    • [ ] Region & Language
    • [x] Secure Shell
    • [ ] Remote Desktop
    • [ ] Users
    • [ ] Date & Time
  • [x] GNOME Disks
  • [x] GNOME Help / Yelp
  • [x] GNOME Image Viewer (loupe)
  • [x] GNOME Logs
  • [x] GNOME Nibbles
  • [x] GNOME Mines
  • [x] GNOME Mahjongg
  • [x] GNOME Maps
  • [x] GNOME Music
  • [ ] GNOME Pomodoro
  • [ ] GNOME Power Statistics (GNOME Power Manager)
  • [x] GNOME Shell features
  • [x] Screencast recording selection
  • [x] Screencast recording whole screen
  • [x] Take a screenshot selection
  • [x] Take a screenshot window
  • [x] Take a screenshot wholescreen
  • [x] Night Light
  • [x] Dark theme toggle
  • [ ] GNOME Remote Desktop
  • [ ] GNOME Sudoku
  • [ ] GNOME Sushi
  • [x] GNOME Text Editor
  • [x] GNOME Tweaks
  • [x] GNOME Weather
  • [x] GNOME Web (epiphany)
  • [ ] GNOME Videos (Totem)
  • [x] Nautilus
  • [ ] Orca
  • [ ] Polari
  • [ ] Quodlibet
  • [ ] Rhythmbox
  • [x] Seahorse
  • [ ] Simple Scan
  • [x] snapshot (laggy)
  • [ ] sysprof
  • [x] Tecla (on-screen keyboard)
  • [ ] Transmission

[sebo505]

As I have already mentioned in the packaging room, simple-scan 46 has an issue where you can neither start a new scan with ctrl+1 nor stop/abort a scan with Esc after you have set a cropping area via right-click context-menu. This persists until you either click on scan button to scan another page or click on the cropping button (missing icon) at bottom. Also, after you have set cropping area via right-click context menu while scanning, cropping area sometimes can only be moved via dragging after several attempts.

[malfisya]

📣 False alarm: adjusting Font sizes fix all my problem. My bad

The problems : - Apps icon is slightly bigger than before - Panel size and icon is smaller than before

[malfisya]

Working so far :

• [x] Bluetooth
  • Tested with Bluetooth pairing in GNOME Control Center with phone.
• [x] Desktops
  • [ ] Budgie Desktop
  • [ ] GDM (when co-installed with GNOME Shell)
  • [ ] LightDM + slick-greeter
  • [x] GNOME Shell
    • [x] GDM
• [x] Geolocation
  • Tested with GNOME Weather
• [ ] IBUS
• [ ] Networking
  • [ ] Shares (Samba via Nautilus)
  • [x] Wireless
  • [ ] Wired
• [x] Baobab (Disk Usage Analyzer)
• [x] Celluloid
• [x] Dconf Editor
• [x] D-Spy
• [x] Four-in-a-Row
• [x] GEdit
• [x] GHex
• [x] GNote
• [x] GNOME 2048
• [ ] GNOME Boxes
• [ ] GNOME Builder
• [x] Evince
• [x] Evolution
• [x] File Roller (archive)
• [x] GNOME Calculator
• [x] GNOME Calendar
• [x] GNOME Characters
• [x] GNOME Clocks
• [ ] GNOME Connections
• [x] GNOME Console
• [x] GNOME Contacts
• [ ] GNOME Control Center
  • [x] About
  • [x] Background
  • [x] Bluetooth
  • [x] Date & Time
  • [x] Devices
    • [x] Color
    • [x] Displays
    • [x] Keyboard
    • [x] Mouse & Touchpad
    • [x] Printers
    • [x] Removable Media
  • [ ] Networking
    • [x] Wi-Fi
    • [ ] Wired
  • [x] Notifications
  • [x] Online Accounts (Tested with a Google Account)
  • [x] Power
  • [x] Privacy
  • [x] Region & Language
  • [x] Search (only applies to GNOME Shell)
  • [ ] Sharing
  • [x] Sound
  • [x] System
  • [ ] Accessibility
    • [ ] Seeing
    • [ ] Hearing
    • [ ] Typing
    • [ ] Pointing and Clicking
    • [ ] Zoom
• [x] GNOME Disks
• [x] GNOME Help / Yelp
• [x] GNOME Image Viewer (loupe)
• [x] GNOME Logs
• [x] GNOME Nibbles
• [x] GNOME Mines
• [ ] Eye of GNOME
• [x] GNOME Mahjongg
• [x] GNOME Maps
• [x] GNOME Music - [ ] GNOME Nibbles Mentioned twice
• [ ] GNOME Pomodoro
• [ ] GNOME Power Statistics (GNOME Power Manager)
• [x] GNOME Shell features
  • [x] Screencast recording selection
  • [x] Screencast recording whole screen
  • [x] Take a screenshot selection
  • [x] Take a screenshot window
  • [x] Take a screenshot wholescreen
  • [x] Night Light
  • [x] Dark theme toggle
• [ ] GNOME Remote Desktop
• [ ] GNOME Sudoku
• [ ] GNOME Sushi
• [x] GNOME Text Editor
• [x] GNOME Tweaks
• [x] GNOME Weather
• [x] GNOME Web (epiphany)
• [x] GNOME Videos (Totem)
• [x] Nautilus
• [ ] Orca
• [ ] Polari
• [ ] Quodlibet
• [ ] Rhythmbox
• [ ] Seahorse
• [ ] Simple Scan
• [ ] snapshot
• [ ] sysprof
• [x] Tecla (on-screen keyboard)
• [ ] Transmission

[endumiuz]

Remote Login with RDP does not work; it just gives me an empty settings page. Steps to reproduce: Open GNOME Settings, Go to System, Click Remote Desktop.

[sebo505]

Restarting GNOME shell in Xorg with Alt+F2, r, Enter leads to crash of session, if any window is open. We had same behaviour intoducing GNOME45, which then got fixed.

[sebo505]

Anyone else has observed absurd huge window bars for some programs in X11? I have seen this for example for SimpleScreenRecorder and Nheko. See screenshots below, always gnome-terminal window as reference:

Wayland:

X11:

[joebonrichie]

Remote Login with RDP does not work; it just gives me an empty settings page. Steps to reproduce: Open GNOME Settings, Go to System, Click Remote Desktop.

Do you have gnome-remote-desktop installed?

[joebonrichie]

Anyone else has observed absurd huge window bars for some programs in X11? I have seen this for example for SimpleScreenRecorder and Nheko. See screenshots below, always gnome-terminal window as reference:

Wayland:

X11:

Does mutter/gnome-shell 46.1 help?

[sebo505]

Does mutter/gnome-shell 46.1 help?

Not sure about how to Interpret that question. I am on unstable and thus mutter/gnome-shell 46.1 are installed.

[endumiuz]

Remote Login with RDP does not work; it just gives me an empty settings page. Steps to reproduce: Open GNOME Settings, Go to System, Click Remote Desktop.

Do you have gnome-remote-desktop installed?

No, I did not; now that I have that installed, I can go to that page. It feels like it should have some kind of hint that you need to install additional software for it to work.

[endumiuz]

Remote Login with RDP does not work; it just gives me an empty settings page. Steps to reproduce: Open GNOME Settings, Go to System, Click Remote Desktop.

Do you have gnome-remote-desktop installed?

No, I did not; now that I have that installed, I can go to that page. It feels like it should have some kind of hint that you need to install additional software for it to work.

I should have checked GNOME Control Center's issue tracker; they seem to be aware of the issue: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/issues/2977

[sebo505]

Is it known and intended behaviour that man nautilus won't bring up a man page?

[ReillyBrogan]

Is it known and intended behaviour that man nautilus won't bring up a man page?

Should be there now

[sebo505]

Should be there now

Can confirm. Nautilus man page now present.

[sebo505]

Does mutter/gnome-shell 46.1 help?

Regarding window/title bar size: turned out I had Materia Theme enabled for legacy applications. Switching to Adwaita or Adw-gtk3 solved this.

[sebo505]

Regarding top panel height and icon size and text size, there is cleary something going on. Best I could do was to install Solus 4.5 GNOME, update, put a post it on screen where panel ends, switch to unstable GNOME46 and compare. With the same fonts, there is a significant difference between GMOME 45 and 46:

GNOME45

GNOME46

[sebo505]

Also be aware of this graphics issue. Turns out it only occurs after switching to unstable and updating to Gnome 46.

[endumiuz]

Regarding top panel height and icon size and text size, there is cleary something going on. Best I could do was to install Solus 4.5 GNOME, update, put a post it on screen where panel ends, switch to unstable GNOME46 and compare. With the same fonts, there is a significant difference between GMOME 45 and 46:

I took some screenshots in a VM for easier comparison.

GNOME 45:

GNOME 46

Both are using the same font sizes with no scaling.

[sebo505]

Also be aware of this graphics issue. Turns out it only occurs after switching to unstable and updating to Gnome 46.

Did some research here. This issue seems to be related to a newly introduced GTK renderer.

Returning to classic OpenGL renderer by adding GSK_RENDERER=gl to /etc/environment as described here solves this issue for me. Using classic OpenGL renderer is advised for older hardware, which I am using.

[TraceyC77]

It was reported in the forums that Desktop Sharing and Remote Login are missing in the Control Center. On the user's system, the preference panel is blank.

rygel and gnome-user-share need to be included in the default package list.

David mentioned that " @EbonJaeger has made a fix that will be part of the next sync: https://github.com/getsolus/packages/pull/2796"

[EbonJaeger]

It only needs gnome-remote-desktop, which has been added as a runtime dependency of gnome-control-center.