Outdated Totem documentation describes and mentions features absent from the software

[Moses Moore]

'man totem' mentions "F9 toggle display of the playlist" and the Help document in totem often describes choosing the "sidebar" option from the "View" menu.

Pressing F9 does nothing. There is no "sidebar" option in the "View" menu.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04
Package: totem 3.24.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-26.30-generic 4.10.17
Uname: Linux 4.10.0-26-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu4.5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Tue Jul 25 18:47:38 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-06-05 (415 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
SourcePackage: totem
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to zesty on 2017-04-13 (103 days ago)

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

See also bug 1717658

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the documentation being outdated is a known issue upstream
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729766

[corrado venturini (corradoventu)]

the problem still remains
corrado@corrado-p9-cc-0506:~$ apt policy totem
totem:
  Installed: 3.26.0-0ubuntu6
  Candidate: 3.26.0-0ubuntu6
  Version table:
 *** 3.26.0-0ubuntu6 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
corrado@corrado-p9-cc-0506:~$

[Moses Moore (moses-ubuntu)]

Problem is still present in Ubuntu 18.04 , totem 3.26.0

man page still mentions the 'F9' key, but pressing F9 does nothing.
and the Help document still talks about things "in the sidebar," but there is no sidebar.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Now tracking in:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/totem/issues/108

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Upstream report closed 20190131 as user docs updated in version 3.32
I can't check with totem 3.32 in Ubuntu 19.04 but...
Online help and man page both updated in Ubuntu 19.10 with totem 3.34.1