August 2012 - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [opensuse-factory] Re: Infinality Fonts
by Marguerite Su 31 Aug '12

31 Aug '12

在 2012-8-28 下午9:23， <pgajdos(a)suse.cz>写道： > And intinality subpixel hinting algorithm in this patchset isn't patented > until 2019? If yes, this is completely useless for me. > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/2012-June/004177.html > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/2012-June/004178.html > > Petr > The answer is no. It's not patented from 2010. Let's understand the case in common sense and technically. the common sense is infinality comes after 2010. so at least the algorithm it use is not patented. or its author goes into jail before us. technically, when its early release, I have to manually add the codes into freetype source code to remake an openSUSE patch...it's a very bad memory...but luckily I found its author just modify freetype's sub-pixel rendering a little bit for some fonts. eg render-y-direction-only instead of x and y. there's no new algorithm introduced, its just a freetype's autohint technology variant. this patch only applies on specific sets of fonts. if your fonts are not in the list. you are actually using freetype. freetype and most of the distros dont include it by default.is because its fonts list focus on proprietary fonts from MS and Apple which dont be on linux distros thus not the type of freetype and linux distros. it's nothing related to patent. since freetype also starts using its autohint in our own freetype package. And the color stuff patent didnt exist in infinality at all if I remember it correctly. because I dont think I saw any other color except for the common word RGB in its source.will check it again tomorrow. Anyway in short you guys can take it as a patch set that patch nothing to freetype using the same technology freetype uses. because the English.fonts it supports are mainly the long known bad ones like Arial in fontconfig tweak world. you have already have better ones like liberation or google.fonts. unless you decided to use Apple's fonts like monaco. But it will improve a lot for CJK fonts. as you may know, we have a lot of characters. each of them needs design. so open source community are in fact not able to provide good fonts. And free rendering solution always be bad on proprietary fonts. That's why we need it and I notice it because seems it's the only fix for such gap by now Marguerite -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] 12.2 and GRUB2
by Basil Chupin 31 Aug '12

31 Aug '12

Will 12.2 have a fully working version of GRUB2 or would we still have to rely on Grub Legacy when installing 12.2? Thanks for any advice or info as to where I can find the answer. BC -- Using openSUSE 12.2 x86_64 KDE 4.8.4 & kernel 3.5.3-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX550Ti 1GB DDR5 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] how do I boot to a text console in 12.2?
by lynn 31 Aug '12

31 Aug '12

In 12.1 I just type 3 at the prompt. In 12.2 I don't seem to have the opportunity to type 3 anywhere. Thanks, L x -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-packaging] Re: [opensuse-factory] Changes in the openSUSE Review team
by Alin M Elena 30 Aug '12

30 Aug '12

On Thu 30 Aug 2012 23:29:53 you wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Andreas Jaeger <aj(a)suse.com> wrote: > > What exactly is not clear? > > Maybe he wants to know what kind of package go to what kind of devel > repository. what I would like to see clear... a list with the official devel packages (indeed in practice one can find them when branching... osc is smart enough on that) and person who should be pinged in case of ignored sr, duplicated packages and other troubles... for example project A needs packages from project B to be updated and pushed to factory... before development of project A continues... delays usually in this (again my experience) lead to duplications of packages over different repos... once a complete list with the official devel packages for factory exists, one can start building the list of duplicates... Alin -- Without Questions there are no Answers! ______________________________________________________________________ Alin Marin ELENA Advanced Molecular Simulation Research Laboratory School of Physics, University College Dublin ---- Ardionsamblú Móilíneach Saotharlann Taighde Scoil na Fisice, An Coláiste Ollscoile, Baile Átha Cliath ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://alin.elenaworld.net ______________________________________________________________________ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Changes in the openSUSE Review team
by Andreas Jaeger 30 Aug '12

30 Aug '12

The review of packages to openSUSE Factory and the released openSUSE distributions have been done in the past by an SUSE internal team. Sascha Peilicke, who's currently on paternal leave, did the vast majority of reviews in the past months. We have now properly formed a review team and started discussing our guidelines and best practices. We created a couple of wiki pages to describe what we are doing (use http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Factory_submissions). If you like to reach the review team directly, please send an email to review(a)opensuse.org. In general, policy discussions and changes will happen on the opensuse-packaging mailing list. The team currently consists of Andreas Jaeger, Berthold Gunreben, Craig Gardner, Dominique Leuenberger, Lars Vogdt, Marcus Rückert, Michal Vyskocil, Rüdiger Oertel, Sascha Peilicke. We'd like to grow the team slowly over time with packagers that have shown good review and packaging skills. Our goal is to document our guidelines - and do a good review to improve the quality of openSUSE's packages. If we err, please tell us - we cannot know everything and might sometimes be too cautious if we do not understand what and why something gets changed. Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger aj(a){suse.com,opensuse.org} Twitter/Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn,Jennifer Guild,Felix Imendörffer,HRB16746 (AG Nürnberg) GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Status: Distribution
by Stephan Kulow 30 Aug '12

30 Aug '12

Hi, Build0167 is the last we'll do for openSUSE 12.2. Maintenance team is already piling up updates and Factory will soon get a new glibc. All as it should be, thanks for your patience ;) Greetings, Stephan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-factory] Throw "apper" out of 12.2?
by Dominik Baumann 29 Aug '12

29 Aug '12

Hi, first: sorry for inducing such a long thread, hope it wasn't in vain at the end ;-) On 18.08.2012 07:42, Will Stephenson wrote: > I've been silently going ballistic :). It's buggy but throwing it out without > fixing the bugs gives no way for a regular user to install updates without > becoming root, as Martin points out. Don't understand that: Both apper and yast ask me to authenticate as root when i want to install updates, so i see no advantage for apper here. On 17.08.2012 15:35, Martin Schlander wrote: > Removing Apper means having no updater applet, no notification > about available updates. There's no alternative to Apper for this. In my opinion notifications don't help a lot when apper isn't able to install the notified updates (the buggy behaviour mentioned in my original post i can't reproduce now, but instead bug [1] appeares again). Shouldn't it be easy for someone who knows how to access the notification area, to do something similar to the following crontab entry?: 10 10 * * 2 ( export DISPLAY=:0 ; kdialog --msgbox "`zypper --quiet patch-check`" ) db [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=658934 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] package update: Modules
by Alin M Elena 29 Aug '12

29 Aug '12

can someone please review this https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/131985 Alin -- Without Questions there are no Answers! ______________________________________________________________________ Alin Marin ELENA Advanced Molecular Simulation Research Laboratory School of Physics, University College Dublin ---- Ardionsamblú Móilíneach Saotharlann Taighde Scoil na Fisice, An Coláiste Ollscoile, Baile Átha Cliath ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://alin.elenaworld.net ______________________________________________________________________ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] openSUSE 12.2 branch is frozen
by Ismail Doenmez 29 Aug '12

29 Aug '12

Fellow developers; Starting this second we are freezing the package submissions to openSUSE 12.2 branch (Factory is fine). As the co-release manager for this release I would like to thank each of you who submitted fixes to the upcoming release. From new gcc to brand new X.org stack it was a bumpy ride but I believe we managed to stabilize to the point we can finally release it. So, on September 5 we will unveil the new openSUSE 12.2 release. But it doesn't stop here, Factory is now ready for heavy breakage^^^^^^development. Just remember to have fun and start sending your Factory submit requests right away. Thanks. -- Ismail Dönmez - openSUSE Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Call for help: 12.2 feature collection
by Christopher Hofmann 28 Aug '12

28 Aug '12

Hi all, openSUSE 12.2 will be released on Sept 5th, so there are only about 3 weeks left. To prepare a proper press release we need to collect the most interesting new features of 12.2. For collecting them we need help. So if you know of any super-duper-high-end-brand-new things that are on 12.2 and should go into a press release feel free to add them to http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Major_features A good source for finding more product highlights might be http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss/ChangeLog If you are coltish, feel free to read http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Product_highlights_writing and help us to bring the collected items in a proper form Sorry for the cross post, Christopher -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner(a)opensuse.org

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