- Install Epidermis using the .deb downloaded from launchpad, or from the PPA.
- Make sure you can access Epidermis from the following places:
- Your desktop environment's menu, on GNOME, Applications, System Tools, Epidermis. Make sure the icon is correct.
- From the terminal, typing epidermis and then enter should launch Epidermis
- Launch Epidermis. Set the repo to http://downloads.tuxfamily.org/epidermis/ghns/downloads.xml , as it should be by default.
- Click About, the version displayed should be the version you expect to see. If you're using Epidermis in a language other than English, make sure the translators have been credited in the About dialog.
- Click 'Find More', and install one or two skins, if not all of them, from the repository.
- Go to installed, and apply each of the skins in turn, activating all the pigment types (including usplash, gdm and grub themes). Make sure that they have been activated.
- Click 'Find More' and look for any pigments that have not been yet downloaded and installed, example: Artic Penguin wallpaper is not included in any skins, so you need to install it manually.
- In 'Installed', customise a skin by changing one of the linked pigments to a newly downloaded one. Verify that if you change a skin back to how it was originally, the custom skin automatically disappears. Apply the custom skin.
- Save the customised Skin, close and reload Epidermis, and make sure it's still there.
- Delete a few skins from 'Installed' view.
- Download a few pigments manually from http://downloads.tuxfamily.org/epidermis/ghns/ and install them manually by opening Epidermis and clicking 'Open'.
- Delete all your pigments by clicking on 'Find More' and unticking them.
- Check that Epidermis' manpage has been installed correctly, type 'man epidermis' in a terminal, and make sure the displayed version number matches the version of Epidermis.
- Check that the gconf schemas have been installed correctly by open gconf-editor to /apps/epidermis .
- Uninstall Epidermis.
If you encounter any bugs, you know where to report them.. If you complete the entire test case without any errors, send me a line, I'll be interested to know (David D Lowe).