October 2009 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[openFATE 306412] Easy and unified way to enable/disable optional/experimental features
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 03 Dec '16

03 Dec '16

Feature added by: Tejun Heo (teheo) Feature #306412, revision 1, last change by Title: Easy and unified way to enable/disable optional/experimental features openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Tejun Heo (teheo) Description: When new things are introduced, it always generates certain amount of controversy. It's sometimes due to the quality of the initial implementation; other times, the feature itself isn't appealing to large subset of the userbase. Examples of this type of features include compiz, beagle and pulseaudio. Given that features which generate a lot of controversies are desktop related as they are the most visible and that as a distro openSUSE wants to ship and experiment with new features, having an easy and unified way to opt in and out of controversial features would resolve a lot of griefs without harming test coverage too much. I suggest installing new features by default and ask whether the user wants to opt in and out of those features from ggreeter. It wouldn't add another step while still providing choices upfront. Also, the same selection should be available through control pannel. This feature would be superset of fate#305296. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306412

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[openFATE 307844] Aria2c as DEFAULT Download Manager
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Dec '16

02 Dec '16

Feature added by: John Shand (jshand2008) Feature #307844, revision 1 Title: Aria2c as DEFAULT Download Manager openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Mandatory Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: John Shand (jshand2008) Description: Since in openSUSE 11.2 aria2c is going to be the main download manager, wouldn't it make sense to also have a GUI for this application for KDE or GNOME? -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307844

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[openFate 305556] rpm -q --whatrecommends foobar
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 29 Nov '16

29 Nov '16

Feature added by: Stephan Binner <stbinner(a)novell.com> Feature #305556, revision 1, last change by Title: rpm -q --whatrecommends foobar openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Stephan Binner <stbinner(a)novell.com> Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: For debugging purporses why a package is installed it would be nice to have a "--whatrecommends" query option for rpm and not only "--whatrequires". -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305556

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[openFATE 306848] Provide firmware package ( non-oss )
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 25 Nov '16

25 Nov '16

Feature added by: Denny Beyer (lumnis) Feature #306848, revision 1 Title: Provide firmware package ( non-oss ) openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Denny Beyer (lumnis) Description: We should provide a firmware package for all drivers requiring one, eg. many tv cards or scanners etc. Even better would be if this package would be automatically installed (or the user will be prompted to install) if a device has been plugged in for the first time. Firmware files are relatively small compared to harddisk size, so one package for all tv cards, one for scanners etc. should do. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306848

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[openFATE 307465] Enable zypper to auto-complete package names
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 25 Nov '16

25 Nov '16

Feature added by: Sven Burmeister (rabauke) Feature #307465, revision 1 Title: Enable zypper to auto-complete package names openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Sven Burmeister (rabauke) Description: I think it would be handy if zypper could auto-complete package names as the shell can do for commands, i.e. if there is more than one possible match, show a list, if not auto-complete. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307465

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[openFATE 307942] change YaST PKGMGR_ACTION_AT_EXIT beavier from EXIT to RESTART
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 20 Nov '16

20 Nov '16

Feature added by: andrea florio (anubisg1) Feature #307942, revision 1 Title: change YaST PKGMGR_ACTION_AT_EXIT beavier from EXIT to RESTART openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: andrea florio (anubisg1) Description: YaST actually looks to crasch after an installation is end. according to /etc/sysconfig/yast2 # The summary dialog is always displayed when an installation error has occured. so set that value to summary is un-useful, since the only time i need to read a summary is when something fail. i think the best way is just to do as any other package manager i used on debian/ubuntu, mandriva, fedora. just go back to "package search/selection" screen. that means set the value PKGMGR_ACTION_AT_EXIT="restart" -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307942

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[openFATE 306917] Improvements to restricted-multimedia codecs installer
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 20 Nov '16

20 Nov '16

Feature added by: Atri Bhattacharya (badshah400) Feature #306917, revision 1 Title: Improvements to restricted-multimedia codecs installer openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Atri Bhattacharya (badshah400) Description: At the moment the execution of opensuse-codecs-installer leads to a rather unnerving chain of events for beginners starting with the webpage. http://software.opensuse.org/codecs?client_version=10.3.1&lang=en_GB.UTF-8&… 11.1 (x86_64)&kernel=2.6.27.23-0.1-default&gstreamer=gstreamer-utils-0.10.21-3.13& The request is to either have a different implementation of codec-installer itself (for example, clicking the search for codecs button on the codec installer automatically starts a one-click-installer for installing required multimedia packages), or improve the codec-installer website to make things easy (reduce number of clicks required to just 1 or 2) and trivial (ie. no decision-making about fluendo/community, etc). Use Case: New user (openSUSE virgin ;) , i.e., any MAN or WOMAN who hasn't used openSUSE yet, possibly only has used windows till now) tries to play an mp3 file. Then the following sequence starts: 1) Codecs-installer pops up. 2) User clicks on install codecs (preferably call it restricted-multimedia support). 3) Browser opens, shows up website with version of opensuse and desktop environment detected. 4) User clicks to start one-click installer. 5) Installatin completes, user retries playing mp3 file, it works, user happy. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306917

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[openFATE 308043] Use Open Video drivers
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 20 Nov '16

20 Nov '16

Feature added by: Piotrek Juzwiak (BenderBendingRodriguez) Feature #308043, revision 1 Title: Use Open Video drivers openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Piotrek Juzwiak (benderbendingrodriguez) Description: It would be very desirable if the open video drivers (nouveau, ati and intel) were used by default BUT in the presence of the closed drivers (as we know they still have a better quality and allow 3d operations) switch to them. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308043

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[openFATE 308017] Show languages at first in booting from instalation DVD/CD or Live CD
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 19 Nov '16

19 Nov '16

Feature added by: Mindaugas Baranauskas (embar-) Feature #308017, revision 1 Title: Show languages at first in booting from instalation DVD/CD or Live CD openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Mindaugas Baranauskas (embar-) Description: In booting from Ubuntu Live CD, language selection is the fist task. Can OpenSUSE do this too in Live CD or in installation DVD/CD? -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308017

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[openFATE 307769] remove X-KDE-SubstituteUID and edit Exec on YaST2 .dekstop files
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 15 Nov '16

15 Nov '16

Feature added by: andrea florio (anubisg1) Feature #307769, revision 1 Title: remove X-KDE-SubstituteUID and edit Exec on YaST2 .dekstop files openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: andrea florio (anubisg1) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: All YaST .destop files in /usr/share/applications/YaST2 use the "X-KDE-SubstituteUID" to make them running as root. X-KDE-SubstituteUID is a KDE only "workaround" for that only KDE is supposed to be able to understand. Really, also GNOME as very famous DE understand that. All the others DE like XFCE, LXDE, Icewm and so on do not understand that (and they are not supposed to do that) so they run all yast2 modules as NON root user. all that Desktop files should edit their exec line and maybe remove X-KDE-SubstituteUID exactly as has been done with /usr/share/applications/YaST.desktop into yast2-control-center package. /usr/share/applications/YaST.desktop content: [Desktop Entry] X-SuSE-translate=true Type=Application Categories=Settings;System;SystemSetup;X-SuSE-Core-System;X-SuSE-ControlCenter-System; Name=YaST Icon=yast GenericName=Administrator Settings Exec=/usr/bin/xdg-su -c /sbin/yast2 #OnlyShowIn=KDE;GNOME; #X-KDE-SubstituteUID=true X-KDE-RootOnly=true X-KDE-System-Settings-Parent-Category=system X-KDE-ServiceTypes=KCModule Encoding=UTF-8 as you can see use /usr/bin/xdg-su -c in Exec line, made the .desktop file DE independent Test Case: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=540627 Use Case: any user running a DE different that KDE/GNOME will run al yast2 modules as non root user with all the warnings/errors that came from that Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: That will increase openSUSE usability for users running a different DE like XFCE and LXDE, and will be a great step to have that feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307729 perfectly working -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307769

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