Feature changed by: Stephan Binner (Beineri) Feature #306634, revision 2 Title: Grey out services in Yast not installed - Buildservice: Unconfirmed - Priority - Requester: Desirable openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable - Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed - Priority - Requester: Desirable Requested by: Drew Kwashnak (dragonbite) Description: Yast lists a lot of configuration options, such as in the Network services section, which users may not necessarily use or knows what it does. This is most likely with newer users to Linux and/or those who are not as involved with system/network administration. I am suggesting that if the related service is not installed (like Samba Server for example) then the configuration option in Yast should be greyed out. It gives a visual indicator of what you don't need to worry about configuring while lets you know what is installed and can be configured. Perhaps users clicking on the greyed-out icons can be greeted with a message giving a brief description of what the service does and offers a chance to install it at that point if they are interested. At that point it could drop them into the software manage screen with the required and recommended services filtered in the package list and the required ones to be already checked off so all the user has to do is click to Accept/Install them. Ultimately when I was trying to configure my openSUSE for the network, for which I am still very new to even though I've learned a lot so far, I was confused by all of the choices and ended up making a bigger mess than accomplishing what I was trying to do. PS: This is my frist openFATE entry. If I am going about this incorrectly please let me know. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306634