June 2017 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[openFATE 308163] Add mc (midnight commander) to selected packages by default during installation
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 13 Jun '17

13 Jun '17

Feature added by: Yuri Baranow (ybaranow) Feature #308163, revision 1 Title: Add mc (midnight commander) to selected packages by default during installation openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Yuri Baranow (ybaranow) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: During installation, after selecting desktop type (gnome or kde) by defaultthe packageMC (Midnight Commander) is always turned off. Add MC package to be selected for installation by default. Thank you. Use Case: Every installation from any media Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: From year to year, from version to version when I install suse, after selecting desktop type (gnome or kde) I always MUST go into detailed package selection to turn on MC (Midnight Commander) to be installed also. This become very anoying for me. :-( Oh, Please... Add MC package to be selected for installation. Thank you. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308163

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[New: openFATE 313002] KDE4: widget for battery shows remaining time in popup
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 13 Jun '17

13 Jun '17

Feature added by: Philipp Niehues (cotrinox) Feature #313002, revision 1 Title: KDE4: widget for battery shows remaining time in popup openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Philipp Niehues (cotrinox) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Since KDE 4.3 the battery widget does neither provide the remaining time nor a GUI way to change it. openSUSE follows upstream while other distributions patch this. It is only shown in the popup, after you click on the widget. It is not shown directly and not shown mouse-over. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: There was discussion about it. I think the time is more concrete and therefore useful. There is lots of room, so I don't see the point removing it. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313002

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[New: openFATE 321935] To play Rammstein's samples on installation process :)
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Jun '17

12 Jun '17

Feature added by: Mikhail Kasimov (k_mikhail) Feature #321935, revision 1 Title: To play Rammstein's samples on installation process :) openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Mikhail Kasimov (k_mikhail) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Operation system installation process is very silent, and sometimes it becomes boring a little bit. Let openSUSE has an option (checkbox) "Sing Rammstein's songs" during the installation process. :) Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Just-for-fun. :) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/321935

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[New: openFATE 316439] User Management/Parental Controls
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Jun '17

12 Jun '17

Feature added by: John Moore (Johnfm3) Feature #316439, revision 1 Title: User Management/Parental Controls openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: John Moore (johnfm3) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: As technology becomes more in family lives, the ability to manage is important. As a parent, what is needed is some way to govern computer usage. Parents are not the only ones who could use this. But would be the primary ones who would appreciate it. Currently KChildLock is the only decent which is a KDE App, the newest Opensuse its written for is 12.2. It allows for one to choose between what times a user can log into KDE, an for how long that user can be logged on. KChildLock has one more really cool feature of governing how long a user uses a paticular app while logged on, but that a bit over kill for what I would like request be added to the Yast User module. It would be really convient to add this to the User yast module. With a longterm plan of administration via setting from LDAP. This way its not a 3rd party app, but part of the OpenSuse distrbution default install for those who want to use it. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: If you google/bing search for Parental Control's, you will find some purchasable pieces of software which you can install on Windows systems. What you will also notice is this is a common issue for parents an some system adadministrators of all OS types. Mac users have this built in thier OS by default. An now 1 Ubuntu version is now available. Many have had to come up with creative solutions to achieve this goal including cron jobs an scripts. This feature would make OpenSuse/Novel Suse more of a family friendly OS which would be recommended to those who want a solid OS with parental control available. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/316439

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[openFATE 307418] Parental control module
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Jun '17

12 Jun '17

Feature added by: Jean Cayron (jeancayron) Feature #307418, revision 1 Title: Parental control module openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Jean Cayron (jeancayron) Description: It would be fine to have a GUI in YaST similar with Mandriva's Parental Control "Drakguard". Parental control is something more en more important for safety with computing in family and Linux can't avoid to be distributed into the families. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307418

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[openFATE 302047] Integrated package searching for YaST and build service
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Jun '17

12 Jun '17

Feature changed by: Tomáš Chvátal (scarabeus_iv) Feature #302047, revision 43 Title: Integrated package searching for YaST and build service openSUSE-10.3: Rejected by Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) reject date: 2007-10-05 14:30:28 reject reason: still open partly - postpone the rest. Priority Requester: Important Projectmanager: Important openSUSE-11.0: Rejected by Michael Loeffler (sprudel24) reject date: 2008-06-10 14:01:45 reject reason: not done for 11.0 Priority Requester: Important Projectmanager: Important openSUSE-11.1: Rejected by Adrian Schröter (adriansuse) reject date: 2008-09-04 18:17:10 reject reason: No time for it, but we have the one-click installation supported from web interface. Priority Requester: Important Projectmanager: Desirable openSUSE-11.3: Rejected by Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) reject date: 2010-11-08 16:58:51 reject reason: Not done for 11.3. Priority Requester: Desirable - openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed + openSUSE-11.4: Done Priority Requester: Desirable - openSUSE Distribution: New + openSUSE Distribution: Done Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Duncan Mac-Vicar (dmacvicar) Product Manager: Michael Loeffler (sprudel24) Engineering Manager: Juergen Weigert (jnweiger) Technical Contact: Andreas Bauer (abauer12345) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: You perhaps remember the hacks Benjamin did to support "click and install" packages (similar to Click'n run) [1] Benjamin has another article in his blog that is worth to read. He has been providing a wepage to search packages from repositories like packman and build service. Now he presents an architecture to desentralize the system, using web services an indexers, and he shows working prototypes of YaST modules for searching, and others like web and irc-bot clients http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/bweber/entry/package_search_developments/ I hope we can provide a strategy and roadmap to integrate these cool ideas and _code_. [1]: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/bweber/entry/next_generation_package/ Discussion: #1: Juergen Weigert (jnweiger) (2007-05-03 15:29:13) see also 300898 For 10.3 the installer should be able to make use of an external list of repositories. I suggest to host such a list at http://packages.opensuse-community.org/ together with the search engine, which is already there. #3: Klaas Freitag (kfreitag) (2007-07-12 10:46:54) Implementation on openSUSE BS already started, Adrian knows the details. #4: Adrian Schröter (adriansuse) (2007-07-12 11:30:04) We work on two approaches atm: * YaST will support (thanks to mvidner) additional repository offers during installation. The list gets hosted on our servers, the open question is how to maintain this list. * The build service End-User interface will offer .ymp files based on pattern submissions for easy installation. #5: Stanislav Visnovsky (visnov) (2007-07-30 20:13:09) (reply to #4) Adrian, please, drive this. The feature for YaST should be done now (let me know if anything is missing). #6: Michael Loeffler (sprudel24) (2007-11-22 11:26:30) This sounds like very useful. And it might be possible the community (in this case Benji) helps implementing this. #7: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) (2008-06-06 10:56:28) Apparently not done - please reject and postpone for 11.1. #9: Adrian Schröter (adriansuse) (2008-06-18 17:08:16) This is something what we should bind to the new upcomming software portal. The software portal will be the End-User interface for searcing and installing software and replace http://software.opensuse.org/search . However it is still in development and not yet set up. Therefore I am unsure if this can happen in time for 11.1. On the other side, the 1-click-installation and integration into the web interface is done since quite some time. The user can use the cool technologies from Benjamin since 10.3. #10: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) (2010-12-02 15:31:30) This should be done with a software portal. #11: Martin Seidler (pistazienfresser) (2012-03-19 09:09:39) (reply to #10) And a software portal with this features is now in the testing/implantation phase(s). See for more information on the mailing list of the buildservice: [opensuse-buildservice] Reworking the software search (http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-buildservice/2012-03/msg00001.html) started at Thu, 01 Mar 2012 12:05:35 +0100 [opensuse-buildservice] Reworking the software search, part II (http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-buildservice/2012-03/msg00053.html) stared at Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:41:26 +0100 Thanks to all involved! Martin -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/302047

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[openFATE 300689] TabletPC: Support Touchscreen and Wacom devices during installation
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Jun '17

12 Jun '17

Feature changed by: Tomáš Chvátal (scarabeus_iv) Feature #300689, revision 47 Title: TabletPC: Support Touchscreen and Wacom devices during installation - openSUSE Distribution: New + openSUSE Distribution: Rejected by Tomáš Chvátal (scarabeus_iv) + reject reason: We now support all the input devices via libinput. So + mostly this feature is done. Otherwise on touchscreens if specific + drivers are needed it is mostly needed to be done by per device thus + fill bugs about those. Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Stefan Behlert (sbehlert) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Tablet PCs are normally produced in two kinds of flavours: Convertibles, which have a keyboard, and Slates, which have none (only pens or touchscreens). If a user installs a Slate, he has no keyboard and no (pohysical) mouse device, only the touchscreen. We should on TabletPCs automatically recognize that it is a TabletPC and configure the Wacom or other Touchscreen device where possible. Thus would enhance the usability of the product on TabletPCs. Relations: - Show virtual keyboard on TabletPC during installation (feature/id: 300688) Discussion: #1: Gary Ekker (gekker) (2007-07-17 11:24:05) Stefan, do you see this as work that your team would do, something that needs to be done by the YaST installer, or both? #6: Matthias Nagorni (mnagorni) (2009-08-24 13:17:30) As long as there is a different way to install it, this appears only like a "nice to have". #7: Daniel FAIVRE (geomaticien) (2009-10-24 07:03:07) There's now really few things to do that for 11.2 : see http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Howto_install_OpenSuSE_on_HP_tx2-xxxx_laptops Furthermore, for 11.3, it should be mandatory ! To get this support for 11.1 or 11.2, we need to : - replace hid-ntrig.c from 2.6.31 kernel by the up-to date version : just copy/paste. - patching linuxwacom : 4 lines to change. - adding a sax2 profile for these devices in the sax2 cdb file. (11.1 needs a kernel upgrade to a kernel from HEAD repository before) #8: Daniel FAIVRE (geomaticien) (2009-10-24 07:28:09) (reply to #7) Read too fast : my post concern support AFTER installation. Please take care. #9: Stephan Kulow (coolo) (2010-03-02 13:00:45) (reply to #8) feel free to work on it and do submit requests against the devel projects. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/300689

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[New: openFATE 308878] Add KDE Info Center to System Settings
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Jun '17

12 Jun '17

Feature added by: Roman Bysh (Romanator) Feature #308878, revision 1 Title: Add KDE Info Center to System Settings openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Roman Bysh (romanator) Description: I propose adding the KDE Info Center to System Settings or even Sysinfo. It provides more information than sysinfo provides at this time. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308878

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[New: openFATE 311661] provide a LiveCD/USB image to crowd-source a HCL
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Jun '17

12 Jun '17

Feature added by: Bernhard Wiedemann (bmwiedemann) Feature #311661, revision 1 Title: provide a LiveCD/USB image to crowd-source a HCL openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Bernhard Wiedemann (bmwiedemann) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: SUSE manually maintained a Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) but this has disadvantages: - it covers a limited range of hardware - parts of it can be outdated or inaccurate - it is a lot of effort to maintain On the other hand, people want an easy way to know if their hardware works with the current or next release of openSUSE. This is why a Live image is proposed that can easily be put to CD or USB-mass-storage and has an easy way (e.g. icon on desktop) to test access to different types of hardware: - graphics - sound - network - input ... This software could then upload the test results to a public online database in anonymous form. This DB could be the smolt DB or something similar in spirit. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311661

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[openFATE 306762] Implemens tool like apt-listbugs of Debian
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Jun '17

12 Jun '17

Feature added by: Vicenç Juan Tomàs Monserrat (vtomasr5) Feature #306762, revision 1 Title: Implemens tool like apt-listbugs of Debian openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Vicenç Juan Tomàs Monserrat (vtomasr5) Description: For system administrators to know the open bugs in the packages is very important to know whether to install or not. Would be a good feature! -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306762

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