Bug 1931342

Summary: gnome-shell is missing dependencies required for screencasting
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: warningnonpotablewater
Component: gnome-shellAssignee: Florian Müllner <fmuellner>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 33CC: fmuellner, gnome-sig, jadahl, klember, otaylor, philip.wyett, warningnonpotablewater
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Fixed In Version: gnome-shell-40.0~alpha.1.1-9.20210212git829a096ba.fc34 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Last Closed: 2021-02-22 10:25:23 UTC Type: Bug
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Description warningnonpotablewater 2021-02-22 08:44:20 UTC
Created attachment 1758573 [details]
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Description of problem:

The gnome-shell package is missing xdg-user-dirs-gtk and gstreamer1-plugins-good as dependencies, which breaks the built-in screencaster when GNOME wasn't installed as a part of the GNOME Desktop group (@gnome-desktop).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

* Fedora 33
* Both GNOME 3.38 and 40 alpha

How reproducible:

100% of the time

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Install Fedora Minimal
2. Install gnome-shell and GDM manually via dnf install gnome-shell gdm
3. Attempt to record a screencast using the built-in key combination

Actual results:

The screencast either doesn't begin or hangs until you manually install xdg-user-dirs-gtk and gstreamer1-plugins-good. See the attached logs for the error messages.

Expected results:

The screencast starts.

Additional info:

See the linked gnome-shell issue for more info.