Re: Hello, I'm Martin
On 09/27/2016 07:38 AM, Martin Wimpress wrote: Hi, Today is my second day at Canonical. I've joined the Desktop Team and I'm absolutely delighted to be here! I'm working from home in Hampshire, England and connected to the Internet via shortwave radio. My recent professional background has been in large scale server infrastructure and the transmission and analytics of "black box" flight data. In my spare time I'm a MATE Desktop core team member and the lead for Ubuntu MATE. I am a massive fan of film and cinema, all genres except horror. I'm a podcaster and co-present the Ubuntu Podcast. I like to unwind by cooking good food :-) -- Regards, Martin Wimpress. Martin, wonderful to see you on this side of the fence! A hearty welcome to you. Nicholas -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Call for Testing: Mir multi-monitor
The Mir team is calling for a round of testing for Mir and multi-monitor support specifically starting today through August 28th. Help us during this round of testing to make sure Mir and features are thoroughly tested on as many devices as possible. You can find all the details you need on this wiki page. The tests will use the *ppa:mir-team/system-compositor-testing ppa. *Full instructions can be found on the wiki page. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mir/MultiMonitorTesting Please report your results good or bad on the provided wiki results page or the package tracker. Thanks for helping make ubuntu better! Nicholas -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: Automatic GUI Testing on Ubuntu
On 10/27/2012 11:40 PM, Ma Xiaojun wrote: I guess a very basis of automatic GUI testing is the ability to get texts of a particular window through a script / program. As I used Windows previously, I'd say I miss GetWindowText function and Spy++ utility somehow. I noticed a tool called Dogtail, which seems to be the right tool for my need. https://fedorahosted.org/dogtail/ http://www.redhat.com/magazine/020jun06/features/dogtail/ However, python-dogtail package in Ubuntu repository is ridiculously outdated; it is not upgraded since 8.04: http://packages.ubuntu.com/python-dogtail It doesn't even start on 12.04. It is a package from Debian. It doesn't surprise me that much since Debian develops few, if any, real GUI apps. Ubuntu is different in a sense that Ubuntu develops Unity, Software Center, Ubuntu One, ... in addition to package whatever upstream offers. I wonder, does Ubuntu developer have better tools I don't know or they simply don't bother to do automatic testing. Have a look at xpresser and autopilot. These tools are both used to do automated testing along with testing frameworks like UTAH. If your interested in doing testing within ubuntu, I'd encourage you to come check us out on the ubuntu quality team: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam Nicholas -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: Automatic GUI Testing on Ubuntu
On 10/30/2012 04:30 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: On 10/27/2012 11:40 PM, Ma Xiaojun wrote: I guess a very basis of automatic GUI testing is the ability to get texts of a particular window through a script / program. As I used Windows previously, I'd say I miss GetWindowText function and Spy++ utility somehow. I noticed a tool called Dogtail, which seems to be the right tool for my need. https://fedorahosted.org/dogtail/ http://www.redhat.com/magazine/020jun06/features/dogtail/ However, python-dogtail package in Ubuntu repository is ridiculously outdated; it is not upgraded since 8.04: http://packages.ubuntu.com/python-dogtail It doesn't even start on 12.04. It is a package from Debian. It doesn't surprise me that much since Debian develops few, if any, real GUI apps. Ubuntu is different in a sense that Ubuntu develops Unity, Software Center, Ubuntu One, ... in addition to package whatever upstream offers. I wonder, does Ubuntu developer have better tools I don't know or they simply don't bother to do automatic testing. Have a look at xpresser and autopilot. These tools are both used to do automaty ed testing along with testing frameworks like UTAH. If your interested in doing testing within ubuntu, I'd encourage you to come check us out on the ubuntu quality team: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam Nicholas My apologies; the links in question: https://launchpad.net/utah https://launchpad.net/autopilot http://xpresser.com/ -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: ClickPads and Click Actions
Chase, I already had 2 finger tapping for right click in oneiric... This would be a regression, unless I'm mistaken. The multitouch click and drag is huge on the these devices, so I would have to say that's the more important one. Are you saying you can do that along with allowing right click by pressing the right side of the pad? If I didn't want to split my clickpad, how else could I right click under your scenario? Nicholas On 02/29/2012 05:18 PM, Chase Douglas wrote: On 02/29/2012 02:11 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: Chase, I would try and make the use case of clicking and dragging along with 2 finger clicking work. The other scenario could possibly be worked out via a ppa or script for users who wish to change or otherwise enable the split clickpad. I personally don't like the split clickpad idea and I think making things standard for all users would be best. Aka, 1 finger tap/click = left click 2 finger tap/click = right click multitouch click and drag = just works :-) Well, the point of this thread is that we can't do all three :). We're past the feature freeze, and I don't have the time to hack up a solution that enables them all at the same time :(. Do you have a preference between having multitouch click and drag vs 2 finger click for right click? It's late and I'm failing to remember.. is tap to click configurable for this? IE, I can tap the clickpad for a click, or I have to depress the clickpad to register a click. Tap to click is still possible, and a two touch tap will still trigger a right click. However, tap to click is not enabled by default. Check in the mouse and trackpad settings for the option. Thanks, -- Chase -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: Looking for application testcases
Thomas, this list is for the desktop team. The ubuntu QA team is involved with QA activities inside ubuntu. See more about what we do and who we are here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/ Hope that helps, Nicholas On 02/25/2012 10:37 AM, Thomas Prost wrote: Am Freitag, den 24.02.2012, 11:24 +0100 schrieb Sebastien Bacher: Le 24/02/2012 01:33, Nicholas Skaggs a écrit : As part of the precise cycle, the ubuntu QA team has been looking to increase manual application testing. As part of this, I have extended Sorry, but: Who or what is the ubuntu QA team ? What kind of people are here else ? Users ? Developers ? What kind of discussion takes place here ? I´m new here and BTW: Is my subscription correct ? Even a look at the archives didn´t help dissolve my confusion :-( Regards from -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Looking for application testcases
As part of the precise cycle, the ubuntu QA team has been looking to increase manual application testing. As part of this, I have extended checkbox to serve up manual tests to testers to test ubuntu applications post installation. We need your help! If your an application developer who wants testing on his application I would like your testcases included in the checkbox application tests for beta1. If your interested in contributing a a testcase, please do so by adding a checkbox job to this repository and submitting a merge request. I plan on placing this in a ppa to be distributed to those folks who are willing to help test applications during beta1. bzr branch lp:~nskaggs/+junk/checkbox-app-testing Not sure how to make a checkbox test? Have a look at the following wiki documents in addition to the example.txt.in file in the jobs directory inside the repository. Create a new file named yourapp.txt.in, and submit a merge request. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Automation/Checkbox https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Automation/Checkbox/WritingTestsHowTo https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Automation/Checkbox/Walkthrough The format is very simple, and there are several examples inside the repository. If you have any questions or issues, let me know. I would be happy to help make sure your tests are included. Thanks everyone for helping make the ubuntu experience better! Nicholas P.S. If your interested in helping test applications by running these tests, instructions for doing so will go out next week with the beta1 release. Thanks! -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
