desktop August 2004

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How to install HP LaserJet 1010 printer in Fedora
by malik malik 08 Aug '04

08 Aug '04

Dear members I want to install HP LaserJet 1010 printer in my fedora linux. How can i install it in fedora.? plz let me know in brief. guna. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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new fedora logos, wallpapers, access to resources
by Bart Kalita 06 Aug '04

06 Aug '04

Hi All, I'm thinking about creating some new wallpapers for FC3. I've made some for FC2 and had some if minimal response. Still I'm interested in a possibility to access to FC logos for FC3 even in a test 1 version. Can anybody help and tell me where to find those logos may it be on the ISOs or ftp? And by the way is there any particular reason why there are so few FC wallpapers? -- __________________________________________________________ Bart Kalita MCP Registered Linux user #347493 Fedora Core 3 test 1 www.bart-domain.com www.astradine.no-ip.org

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enable the 256 colors support in xterm?
by Dan Nicolaescu 05 Aug '04

05 Aug '04

Can the FC3 xterm be compiled with support for 256 colors enabled? (i.e. configure with --enable-256-color) This would enable applications to take advantage of a higher number of colors. For example, the next version of Emacs will have support for 256 color xterms. (This support is not present in emacs-21.3 but it can probably be easily backported, if desired. It would probably be an ~200 lines patch). With that support, syntax coloring in emacs running in an xterm looks almost identical to emacs running in X11. This is great for using emacs over slow connections. Thanks. --dan

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How can I Installation of Fedora Core2 through NFS?
by malik malik 05 Aug '04

05 Aug '04

Dear friends I have 4 systems. I am not willing to spend more time to install each and every system. I heard we can install fedora core2 through NFS. plz let me know, how we can install fedora core2 through the NFS? plz let me in brief.. guna. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages!

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Re: test plans
by Kyrre Ness Sjobak 03 Aug '04

03 Aug '04

> On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 04:35:01PM -0400, Christopher Aillon wrote: > > Mozilla's basic functionality test suite (smoketest) which includes > > plugins testing is at http://www.mozilla.org/quality/smoketests/index.html > > Similiarly OpenOffice has a qadev cvs module which has lots of qa tests, and > there is a quicker smoketest 10erTest_680.sxw document which runs through some > basic sanity tests. With OOo UNO interface its relative trivial to write > tests in e.g. python to automate OOo specific tests like document load/convert > comparisons. > > C. Yep. But wouldn't it be good to include a pointer to these instructions high up in the release-notes of the test-releases, or/and somewhere that is easyly seen (motd+users desktops?) I tested fc2-t3, but heard nothing of such instructions. Kyrre Ness Sjøbæk

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test plans
by Havoc Pennington 03 Aug '04

03 Aug '04

Hi, I'd like to see some more detailed test plans for the Fedora desktop. These need not be complicated or long, just a set of basic things we want to try out in each of the major apps and in the OS itself. Here are some notes I have on things we might include. I know that some of these tests would not pass at the moment, no need to point that out ;-) - basic run through a login session; log in, log out, launch some apps; does anything embarassing happen - install previous version of the OS; log in to a user account, play with some things, change settings; tar up and save the user home directory; install current version of the OS, and unpack same user home directory; repeat the above basic run through a login session - develop list of major apps that must be tested, check basic functionality of each. e.g. browser, office, mail, IM, etc. - input methods work in these apps - printing works properly in all 10 languages from these major apps - Windows printers are detected and shown automatically in print dialog - CUPS printers are detected and shown automatically in print dialog - in Nautilus, verify that Windows file shares appear automatically and the files there can be opened on double click, specifically check MS Office files - verify that plugging in several representative USB storage devices results in them appearing on the desktop and working - verify that if a local USB printer is plugged in, it is automatically configured and made available - verify that on plugging a network cable the link is automatically brought up and dhcp run - verify that wireless networking can be used without resorting to the command line at all - login to FC1/2, login to FC3 same homedir, run through major apps and check for confusion with shared NFS homedir - login on two different machines, same homedir, with same FC version, check for badness - login twice on same machine same user and check for badness - test lockdown of settings, ensure desktop behaves properly and user can't avoid the lockdown - test X on some list of video hardware; automated smoke test - accessibility, e.g. test screen reader and onscreen keyboard - correct fonts used in 10 languages for set of common font names - suite of Microsoft documents to be imported correctly (screenshots of correct appearance?) - suite of web pages to render correctly - cut-and-paste to/from a big matrix of sources/targets - out of disk space, behavior on login and when saving from the major apps - set date/time backward, see if desktop or login breaks - run any test suites we have for specific components - verify that all browser plugins work (including the proprietary ones available from third parties) - verify important MIME associations, e.g. .doc opens in OpenOffice.org, etc. - test use of an Active Directory account for Linux login As you can see from the list, the plans need to be more specific, and point to the files (tarred up homedirs, web pages, office documents, etc.) to be used. Havoc

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