Call for testing mattermost-desktop

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A new version (5.9.0) of mattermost-desktop was just pushed to the latest/candidate channel in the snap store. The following revisions are available.

CPU Architecture	Revision
amd64	762
arm64	763

Automated testing

If configured, the snap will be installed in a VM, and any test results or screenshots will be posted to this issue as a comment shortly.

How to test it manually

1. Stop the application if it was already running
2. Upgrade to this version by running

snap refresh mattermost-desktop --channel latest/candidate

3. Start the app and test it out.
4. Finally, add a comment below explaining whether this app is working, and include the output of the following command.

snap version; lscpu | grep Architecture; snap info mattermost-desktop | grep installed

How to release it

Maintainers can promote this to stable by commenting /promote <rev>[,<rev>] latest/stable [done].

For example

• To promote a single revision, run /promote <rev> latest/stable
• To promote multiple revisions, run /promote <rev>,<rev> latest/stable
• To promote a revision and close the issue, run /promote <rev>,<rev> latest/stable done

You can promote all revisions that were just built with:

/promote 762,763 latest/stable done

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The following screenshots were taken during automated testing:

[arif-ali]

Mostly works

The top right of the window with minimise, maximise and close don't work for me

❱❱ snap version; lscpu | grep Architecture; snap info mattermost-desktop | grep installed

snap    2.63+24.04ubuntu0.1
snapd   2.63+24.04ubuntu0.1
series  16
ubuntu  24.04
kernel  6.8.0-39-generic
Architecture:                         x86_64
installed:          5.9.0            (762) 120MB -

[jnsgruk]

Seems this was changed in the upstream for this release.

Changed the window buttons on the Linux client to use the native ones provided by Electron, removed the frame.

Do you get any denials or logs in the journal when using the buttons? Are you able to test the deb and see if that also suffers?

[arif-ali]

Seems this was changed in the upstream for this release.

Changed the window buttons on the Linux client to use the native ones provided by Electron, removed the frame.

Do you get any denials or logs in the journal when using the buttons? Are you able to test the deb and see if that also suffers?

All my logs when I start it up, a couple of denials, and one error

https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/b93pS6gBNY/

[jnsgruk]

Do the buttons work if you run Mattermost outside of confinement (e.g. by running /snap/mattermost-desktop/762/opt/Mattermost/mattermost-desktop in a terminal)?

[arif-ali]

/snap/mattermost-desktop/762/opt/Mattermost/mattermost-desktop

minimise and close work

maximise/restore doesn't work. Another item, when double-clicking the bar usually would restore to a window, and then maximise.

So, better, but still some issues

[jnsgruk]

Hmm, weird. I can't reproduce. @jugmac00 I know you gave this a test - do the window controls work for you?

[jnsgruk]

Another item, when double-clicking the bar usually would restore to a window, and then maximise

I think this is just a change to behaviour by the upstream adopting the native Electron window controls - so not something we can control in the packaging.

[jnsgruk]

Done some more testing on another machine, and in a VM - window controls seem to be working and confirmed with Jurgen they're also working for him. @arif-ali you might try a snap remove mattermost-desktop --purge and reinstall perhaps? Or login/logout and try in a new session?

/promote 762,763 latest/stable done

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The following revisions were released to the latest/stable channel: 762,763.

[arif-ali]

@arif-ali you might try a snap remove mattermost-desktop --purge and reinstall perhaps? Or login/logout and try in a new session?

Yup, complete purge, and install, and all good, and everything works as expected :)