[opensuse-factory] What is new on 13.2?
Hi people of Factory I am prepairing an article about 13.2 beta release so I would like to know what is new and what changed since 13.1, please share. I am interested in everything, expecialy in changes that has ben made in the GUI's, server, extra/improved tools, new programs that people will get in the standard 13.2 beta installation and any extra stuff, anything that you guys worked in the last year and believe is important for people to know. Thanks in advance for your help Kostas -- --- \m/ --- If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative. --- \m/ --- me I am not I --- \m/ --- Time travel is possible, you just need to know the right aliens -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
2014-09-18 8:33 GMT+03:00 denisart benjamin2 <p.drouand@gmail.com>:
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On 09/18/2014 08:19 AM, Kostas Koudaras wrote:
Sure there is more, but this should be useful https://news.opensuse.org/2014/07/31/mate-1-8-1-available-on-opensuse/ You can find a lot of inspiration and bits of information just going through the news.o.o archives. Cheers.
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2014-09-18 9:25 GMT+03:00 Ancor Gonzalez Sosa <ancor@suse.de>:
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On Fri, 19 Sep 2014, 20:21:02 +0200, denisart benjamin2 wrote:
you've mentioned that link several times now and I actually looked at this URL and also the Portal link <https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:MATE>. To be honest, I find this rather confusing. Here are my observations: a. <https://news.opensuse.org/2014/07/31/mate-1-8-1-available-on-opensuse/>: "That means that next openSUSE version, 13.2, will include MATE Desktop officially! ... We have changed our repository scheme to avoid people having to change their repositories for each update. Everything is now unified in only one repository, X11:MATE:Current, so you don’t have to go through the repo-changing hassle every release." and "To install MATE, visit our Portal and utilise the one click install ymp files (simply click on the icons next to the appropriate version)." If I read and understand this correctly, a user would have to use the "X11:MATE:Current" repository, and installing Mate as a desktop environment must be done by using the one click ymp files (unless you already know which packages must/should be installed). On the Portal site then: b. <https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:MATE>: There are only ymp files for 12.3, 13.1 and Tumbleweed, but none for Factory (or the upcoming 13.2). As a user wanting to try out Mate, I now would have to download the ymp file closest to Factory and find out, which packages I should install, but not from the "X11:MATE:Current" repository, instead rather using the Factory (or later the 13.2) repository. Or is there another way to install it? FWIW, there are no mate related patterns, which I had expected... TIA, cheers. l8er manfred
Am 23.09.2014 um 18:26 schrieb denisart benjamin2:
Strange answer since it does not match the question. Let me tell you another story: I've tried to switch my Factory installation from Gnome to Mate and broke it apparently. I can choose mate from the selection but nothing then it's stuck. There is nothing coming up. Since there is no pattern at all for Mate (why???) I had to choose packages manually and apparently failed. Seems that dependencies are broken. Also tried to find some documentation what I actually need to install but failed again. Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
Le 23/09/2014 18:33, Wolfgang Rosenauer a écrit :
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On Tue, 23 Sep 2014, 18:58:04 +0200, denisart benjamin2 wrote:
hmm, I thought it was pretty clear, but obviously not. Like Wolfgang confirmed, there is no (at least no obvious) way to get Mate installed so that it works afterwards. I tried to "zypper install --recommends ..." all the packages listed in the 13.1 ymp (but from the Factory repositories, of course), but the desktop wasn't really usable afterwards (Gnome main menu doesn't want to start, leaving the Mate desktopn *without* a main menu!). It is my understanding that, for something that should be documented as "xxx is now available in 13.2", we should make sure to make it installable in the first place. Right now it's not, and if you say, "the issues have been fixed", we need to know how and where. FWIW, as I mentioned before, I tried to install the Mate packages as of yesterday, but I really didn't succeed. FWIW2, I'm currently using XFCE as my desktop session, so I don't know if there are any of XFCE related session services in conflict with Mate. In any way, there ought to be a pattern-mate-desktop or something similar, otherwise we'll end up in a bad situation for users who aren't familiar with .ymp files (which don't exist for 13.2 or even Factory!) or even the command line. HTH, cheers. l8er manfred
Le 23/09/2014 19:20, Manfred Hollstein a écrit :
Wolfgang, you clearly don't know how is working releasing of openSUSE. Of course there is no 13.2 repositories on Current, as it's not stable for the moment. If you wan't to test Mate for 13.2, there are in the OFFICIAL REPOSITORIES, you don't have to add any repo for getting packages. Regards. Benjamin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
Am 23.09.2014 um 20:08 schrieb denisart benjamin2:
You are sure you are addressing me here? Most probably not because I never claimed something in that direction. Also saying that I wouldn't know how the openSUSE development model works is a bit of an interesting assumption. I said that I tried to switch my Factory installation from Gnome to Mate and that failed and still is failing. Meanwhile I've got the same result as Manfred with at least a panel coming up but still no main menu available. I don't expect everything to be perfect for 13.2beta or Factory but having a desktop where apparently some experienced people are failing to install correctly should just give a sign that something is weird and should be improved. You said you are working on patterns. That's good. Please do. I'll come back and test once there is a real way to install that beast. Thanks, Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
Le 23/09/2014 20:29, Wolfgang Rosenauer a écrit :
I tested it and don't have any troubles. Regards. Benjamin PS: Sorry, it's me who probably didn't understand :) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
Am 23.09.2014 um 23:07 schrieb denisart benjamin2:
It's just not there. I only have some stuff at the right side of the panel and a note application on the left. But no menu there. Also no error message. (Actually I haven't checked the Xsession logs.) Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
Hi, Am 24.09.2014 um 22:40 schrieb denisart benjamin2:
finally I found some time. Looking at .xsession-errors showed that nothing provided "marco" and "caja". Given that marco is the window manager I'm wondering why nothing required it :-( Now .xsession-errors is basically fine: Some warnings about gnome-keyring-daemon and nm-applet but still I don't have a main menu. Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
Le 05/10/2014 17:38, Wolfgang Rosenauer a écrit :
I tried 13.2 + full Mate environment, and main-menu works for me so, honestly, I can't help you :(. About branding, I opened a bug with a draft and am waiting for an answer from maitainers of opensuse-branding. Regards. Benjamin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
Am 05.10.2014 um 17:44 schrieb denisart benjamin2:
I still doubt that I have the "full Mate environment" since so important things as the window manager wasn't pulled in I expect more components to be missing. So basically I'm waiting for your pattern still. Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
The Mate patterns have been added in Factory and will probably be available soon in 13.2 repositories. Regards. Benjamin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
Thank you Benjamin! Alexandros On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 1:06 AM, denisart benjamin2 <p.drouand@gmail.com> wrote:
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On Tuesday 23 September 2014 20.08:37 denisart benjamin2 wrote:
Benjamin, sometimes its good to take 3 minutes to check with who you're interacting :-) I guess you just do it after this unfortunate "too quick Enter kick gesture" :-) -- Bruno Friedmann Ioda-Net Sàrl www.ioda-net.ch openSUSE Member & Board, fsfe fellowship GPG KEY : D5C9B751C4653227 irc: tigerfoot -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
Hello guys ! I come back to you. I tested Mate with latest snapshot. I noticed the trouble with StickyNotes, and will fix it as soon as possible. For the rest, it runs just fine, just a trouble with default theme. But that's it. Regards. Benjamin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
About SitckyNotes problem, please ensure mate-menus is installed. I'm still working on patterns. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
And mate-applets -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
Kostas Koudaras wrote:
I am prepairing an article about 13.2 beta release so I would like to know what is new and what changed since 13.1, please share.
KDE Frameworks 5 (libraries) and Plasma 5 (workspace), offered as an option for the people who want to test the newer software offerings from KDE. -- Luca Beltrame - KDE Forums team KDE Science supporter GPG key ID: 6E1A4E79 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
2014-09-18 8:43 GMT+03:00 Luca Beltrame <lbeltrame@kde.org>:
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In data giovedì 18 settembre 2014 09:25:08, Kostas Koudaras ha scritto:
Cool, can you also tell me the exact KDE version that 13.2 beta will be available in stock?
It will have the latest stable versions of the KDE Development Platform and Applications: currently we have 4.14.0 in 13.2. As for the (optional!) Plasma 5 workspace, the plan is (up to the release team's acceptance) to offer version 5.1. -- Luca Beltrame - KDE Forums team KDE Science supporter GPG key ID: 6E1A4E79
Op maandag 22 september 2014 14:33:04 schreef Luca Beltrame:
Now 4.14.1 is available and I have it installed. It solved a severe bug in KMail with some types of IMAP servers. After making a change in the configuration of an IMAP account, KMail ends with an error and it can't be used anymore. Maybe I have to configure KDE from scratch. It is not clear to me how to configure only Kontact from scratch. -- fr.gr. Freek de Kruijf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
Hallo Freek, Can you indicate what the error is that you get ? If you want to configure kmail from scratch you have to delete some files (e.g. ~/.kde4/share/config/ kmail*, ~/.kde4/share/config/akonadi*, ~/.kde4/share/apps/kmail*). Also check in ~/.local/share for any akonadi directories. If there are, then you could delete them to really cleanup everything. I am not sure if these are all files, but I guess it would at least cleanup the kmail configuration. Regards Raymond On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 9:28 PM, Freek de Kruijf <f.de.kruijf@gmail.com> wrote:
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Hello, Am Montag, 22. September 2014 schrieb Freek de Kruijf:
touch -d yesterday ~/timestamp find ~/.kde4 -newer timestamp Look for files related to KMail in the find output, and move them away or restore a known-working version from your last backup. Finally, delete ~/timestamp ;-) (~/.local might also be a candidate to check if you don't find anything suspicious in ~/.kde4) BTW: the exact error would be interesting - please open a bugreport about it, and also attach the non-working config files. Regards, Christian Boltz --
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El Jueves, 18 de septiembre de 2014 08:32:04 Kostas Koudaras escribió:
Hi. If anyone cares, LXDE has been revamped: - LXDE has no version number for the desktop itself, but all the programs have been updated and packages are up to date. Others programs included in the default installation have also been updated (galculator, Parcellite, Xarchiver -with new xz and RAR5 support-). - A lot of bug fixing has been done recently thanks to one of the developers, Andriy Grytsenko. - There are new features in some programs: ~ PCManFM: split panel, integrated system menu editor, breadcrumb navigation, ... ~ LXPanel: new weather plugin, support for custom gtk themes, drag buttons in the taskbar, ... ~ LXRandR: new monitors positioning settings. ~ LXCC (control center) has translations available. ~ Some more new features are to come like in place tabs renaming for LXTerminal. I'm sure there are more features, but I can't remember them all now. - Adwaita replaces Clearlooks as the default GTK theme. This provides an uniform appearance for both GTK2 and GTK3 programs. If using the Qt GTK GUI style, Qt applications are nicely integrated too (not perfect, but it's fine). - Openbox uses a theme that matches Adwaita. - The panel background image has been replaced with a color so it is more integrated with the global appearance. - xfce4-screenshooter is used to take screenshots instead of mtPaint. - gcolor2 (color picker) has been introduced in the pattern. The future replacement for LXDE, LXQt, has a repository available at https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/X11:lxde:lxqt. Greetings. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
2014-09-18 12:35 GMT+03:00 jcsl <trcs@gmx.com>:
Thanks
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On Thursday 2014-09-18 07:32, Kostas Koudaras wrote:
== Multimedia == cdrtools is available. This provides the original mkisofs, cdrecord, and a few other utilities related to optical media writing and extraction. cdrecord supports DVD-, DVD+ and BluRay all in one program, and there are numberous bugfixes over cdrkit(-cdrtools-compat), which last used the same program invocation names. == Development == gcc-4.9 is available as a preview feature (package name: gcc49) and can be installed concurrently with the default gcc that is shipped (4.8). Furthermore, cross compiler packages are now shipped for 4.9. For example, "cross-ppc64-gcc49" permits building of powerpc kernels from other platforms. (There is also an "icecream backend" for it, but it is not sufficient for build real programs directly like the mingw suite would.) LMDB is shipped as an alternative to BerkeleyDB (bdb/libdb). Developers alike are encouraged to switch to it. With only few API changes, it is significantly more performant, and also has a license that is more comfortable with developers. LibreSSL is provided as a preview. == Desktop == KDE5. Qupzilla browser: slim Webkit-based browser in classic style. == Hardware/Scientific == InfiniBand support libraries have been added back. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
Hi Kostas! On Thu, 2014-09-18 at 08:32 +0300, Kostas Koudaras wrote:
I have started documenting a list of new and updated packages in openSUSE 13.2 related to science and education. A draft is here [1]. The list is expected to grow, but I hope this proves at least a little useful for the Beta announcement. Thanks a lot. [1] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Science_New_and_Updated_in_13.2 -- Atri Bhattacharya -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
On September 18, 2014 1:32:04 AM EDT, Kostas Koudaras <warlordfff@gmail.com> wrote:
If anyone cares: Plaso is new to 13.2 http://plaso.kiddaland.net/ It is a major new computer forensic tool supported by Google. It combines the concepts initially developed in log2timeline with the libyal low level digital forensics libraries also supported by Google. The code for plaso has been developed in python over the last 2 years and led to the standalone development of dfVFS (digital forensics virtual file system) as a major dependency of plaso. Bringing plaso to 13.2 required adding approximately 30 new packages (including numerous members of the libyal library family) to 13.2 to satisfy its dependencies. Plaso is developed in security:forensics. Greg -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
On 09/18/2014 07:32 AM, Kostas Koudaras wrote:
Here you are some paragraphs about Yast. https://public.pad.fsfe.org/p/yast-13.2-beta1 -- Ancor González Sosa openSUSE Team at SUSE Linux GmbH -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
2014-09-18 21:30 GMT+03:00 Ancor Gonzalez Sosa <ancor@suse.de>:
Now if some of you guys could send me a bunch of things about: - KDE(all I have right now is "The KDE comes in the new 4.14.1 version" -Gnome -Xfce -Any other cool feature you think worths mentioning It would be great Have fun Kostas -- --- \m/ --- If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative. --- \m/ --- me I am not I --- \m/ --- Time travel is possible, you just need to know the right aliens -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
On Fri, 19 Sep 2014 09:10:50 +0300 Kostas Koudaras <warlordfff@gmail.com> wrote:
Just a warning from me, a mere user, to backup .kde4 before switching. In my experience it has been necessary to start without a .kde4 folder and rebuild the KDE settings from scratch. It may be possible to copy some configuration files and folders from the backup .kde4 but at least one, Dolphin, has a new format for the files in the share/config/session folder. I like to keep a lot of Dolphin windows and tabs open and the change in format results in loss of all tabs. I had to recreate by hand using the old file to use as a memory aid. My favourite "new" feature so far is that YaST Software Management window stays open after installations are completed. I've been using SUSE for long enough to remember when this feature was last available and I'd missed it. I don't know whether this rates as "cool", certainly not with me, but Network Settings in YaST has replaced "ifup" with "wicked". I have been told that "wicked" is nothing to do with WICD (pronounced "wicked"). "Network Settings" is now the only setup option under "Network Devices" in YaST so I assume the others are defunct? GRUB has been removed as a boot management option. Sadly for me, this removal coincides with a reintroduction of an old bug in GRUB2 for which GRUB would have been a very useful alternative. -- Graham Davis, Bracknell, Berks. openSUSE 13.2-m0 (64-bit); KDE 4.14.0; AMD Phenom II X2 550 Processor; Kernel: 3.16.1; Video: nVidia GeForce 210 (using nouveau driver); Sound: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
On 19/09/14 18:32, Graham P Davis wrote:
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And that "old bug in GRUB2" is........?! BC -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.14.0 & kernel 3.16.2-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Graham P Davis <hacker@scarlet-jade.com> wrote:
Please be more specific. Or better, file bug report and post number here. You say "reintroduction", which means, bug was fixed once? Please include as detailed information when this bug was present and when this bug was fixed. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
On September 19, 2014 2:10:50 AM EDT, Kostas Koudaras <warlordfff@gmail.com> wrote:
Wicked should be in your core list too, but I don't know enough to write anything. Greg -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
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