From 6769d079dc37d914054e249d48c4cab2f5dd0952 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: spacedandy-agents-simplex
 <342056592+spacedandy-agents-simplex@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:39:19 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] ci: stop the release smoke test at the chat list, require the
 directory row on the branch

Run 38712854507 showed that the released app (v7.1.0-beta.6) has no search field after onboarding: with no chats its left pane is empty and the centre shows "Talk to someone", while the branch shows the search bar in that state. The chat list is now recognised by "Talk to someone", which both show; the release job stops there (onboarding mode), and the branch run again requires the "Search in Directory" row after typing.
---
 .github/workflows/desktop-linux.yml    |  2 +-
 scripts/ci/desktop-linux/smoke-test.sh | 22 ++++++++++++----------
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/desktop-linux.yml b/.github/workflows/desktop-linux.yml
index fa1f7df16d..d794a0c07a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/desktop-linux.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/desktop-linux.yml
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ jobs:
           dpkg-query -W xvfb xdotool openbox imagemagick tesseract-ocr
 
       - name: Run smoke test
-        run: scripts/ci/desktop-linux/smoke-test.sh "$RUNNER_TEMP/release/app/opt/simplex" "$RUNNER_TEMP/smoke-test"
+        run: scripts/ci/desktop-linux/smoke-test.sh "$RUNNER_TEMP/release/app/opt/simplex" "$RUNNER_TEMP/smoke-test" onboarding
 
       - name: Upload smoke test results
         if: ${{ !cancelled() }}
diff --git a/scripts/ci/desktop-linux/smoke-test.sh b/scripts/ci/desktop-linux/smoke-test.sh
index cee0a871f3..1708958ca8 100755
--- a/scripts/ci/desktop-linux/smoke-test.sh
+++ b/scripts/ci/desktop-linux/smoke-test.sh
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
 # Starts the desktop app on a virtual display and runs the scripted UI cases with the ui helper:
-# onboarding to the chat list, and typing in the chat list search field.
-# Usage: scripts/ci/desktop-linux/smoke-test.sh <app dir> <output dir>
+# onboarding to the chat list, and typing in the chat list search field, which offers the directory.
+# Usage: scripts/ci/desktop-linux/smoke-test.sh <app dir> <output dir> [onboarding]
+# With "onboarding" it stops at the chat list: releases before directory search show no search field without chats.
 # Each step saves a numbered screenshot and the text read from it to the output dir, prints the text to the log,
 # and adds a line to steps.log there. The app keeps running for later steps of the job, which get UI_OUT.
 
@@ -10,6 +11,7 @@ set -euo pipefail
 
 app_dir=$1
 export UI_OUT=$2
+cases=${3:-all}
 search_text="ci smoke"
 ui=$(dirname "$0")/ui
 mkdir -p "$UI_OUT"
@@ -56,18 +58,18 @@ trap finish EXIT
 "$ui" shot network-commitments
 "$ui" click-text "Accept"
 
-"$ui" wait "Search or paste SimpleX link" 60
+"$ui" wait "Talk to someone" 60
 sleep 3
 "$ui" shot chat-list
+if [ "$cases" = onboarding ]; then
+  echo "smoke test passed: onboarding reached the chat list"
+  exit 0
+fi
 
+# typed text that is not a SimpleX link offers the directory
 "$ui" click-text "Search or paste SimpleX link"
 "$ui" type "$search_text"
 "$ui" wait "$search_text" 15
-# builds with directory search offer it for typed text that is not a SimpleX link; releases before it don't
-if "$ui" wait "Search in Directory" 10; then
-  directory_row=shown
-else
-  directory_row="not shown"
-fi
+"$ui" wait "Search in Directory" 15
 "$ui" shot search-typed
-echo "smoke test passed: onboarding reached the chat list, its search field shows \"$search_text\", and the \"Search in Directory\" row is $directory_row"
+echo "smoke test passed: onboarding reached the chat list, and its search field shows \"$search_text\" and the \"Search in Directory\" row"