November 2009 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[New: openFATE 308357] Replacement for Sax2 in 11.3
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 11 Nov '11

11 Nov '11

Feature added by: Tara Ikeda (TaraIkeda) Feature #308357, revision 1 Title: Replacement for Sax2 in 11.3 openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Tara Ikeda (taraikeda) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: We need a replacement for sax2 in 11.3, as a safety measure for when auto configuration fails to detect certain monitors/keyboards/mice. Relying on the Desktop Environment for this is not the best idea, as some DE's or window managers dont provide config tools for what you might need to work. So I propose instead of relying on xrandr, Hal, devicekit or whatever there should be a GUI to configure graphics cards, mice, and keyboards without depending on the DE or a WM to provide a tool for the end user. I mention this as I have had KDE 4 fail to detect my resolutions and sometimes keyboard, luckily SAX2 is there to aid me but if its going the way of the dodo then I propose a relacement tool so that the end user wont have to make a xorg.conf and spend some time setting it up. It takes skill to make edits to a xorg.conf file and one can easily mess it up So having a helpful GUI tool is needed sometimes. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Because of new users mainly, because we dont want them to install openSUSE and have it fail to detect their proper monitor resolution and default to a much smaller one. The goal here is ease of use, but also to have a a safety net just in case. With openSUSE being more geared toward KDE a tool like Sax2 becomes even more needed. KDE4's monitor detection tool sucks, its always given me headaches in Ubuntu, in Mandriva, in many other KDE4 distros. It has no feature to remember monitor settings, nor does it do a good job with enabling my resolution. But i am not doing this just for me, many others have issues with KDE4's monitor tool -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308357

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[openFATE 306578] Zypper integration with BuildService
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

Feature added by: Brent McConnell (everettemcconnell) Feature #306578, revision 1 Title: Zypper integration with BuildService Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Brent McConnell (everettemcconnell) Description: Integrate zypper with Buildservice so that users can install packages from BuildService directly from zypper without having to leave the commandline. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306578

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[openFATE 307220] Make YaST Software Management settings persistant
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 06 Oct '11

06 Oct '11

Feature added by: Dean Hilkewich (deanjo13) Feature #307220, revision 1 Title: Make YaST Software Management settings persistant openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Dean Hilkewich (deanjo13) Description: One thing I would really like to see in 11.2 is having YaST's Software Management module retain the view selections of whether or not to show the devel and / or the debug packages. In 11.1 you have to set it upon every load up of the module. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307220

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[openFATE 305859] Make installation history accessible from Yast GUI
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Oct '11

05 Oct '11

Feature added by: Atri Bhattacharya (badshah400) Feature #305859, revision 1, last change by Title: Make installation history accessible from Yast GUI openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Atri Bhattacharya (badshah400) Description: As there is now (since openSUSE 11.1) a way to access the history of installed packages and their dependencies, it would be very useful if this history could be accessed from the Yast GUI. In the present implementation, zypper saves the history in a file (/var/log/zypp/history) which is very obscure. The history thus shown from yast should be able to show official-updates and non-official upgrades in different categories. Use Case: 1. Install new software, software not working (or not liked), look-up history start yast, look-up history, uninstall software and installed dependencies. 2. Online update, something goes wrong (upgraded software not working or something), look-up history to see recent updates and revert (all from yast). -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305859

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[openFATE 306982] Create an open SLES
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 03 Oct '11

03 Oct '11

Feature added by: Stephen Shaw (decriptor) Feature #306982, revision 1 Title: Create an open SLES Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Stephen Shaw (decriptor) Description: It would be great to have something like centos but that is based off of SLES. This would give people the abililty to use openSLES (for example) and move over to SLES if needed. I believe it would help to grow our user base in the enterprise as well by allowing small companies to start and grow and later move to a supported model. I don't think we would loss customers as these are the people that probably wouldn't be buying licenses in the first place. As they grow this could completely change and they would be well positioned to buy support from Novell. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306982

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[New: openFATE 308389] Zypper - ingore All
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 20 Sep '11

20 Sep '11

Feature added by: Josef Reidinger (jreidinger) Feature #308389, revision 1 Title: Zypper - ingore All openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Josef Reidinger (jreidinger) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: I think it would nice to have use same answer for similar questions. Like if repository is not accessible or recently synced, then ignore all problems instead of individual answers. Use Case: For example if factory is synced and package is no longer available, then use ignore all and after run refresh and repair via verify problems. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: If update contain many packages and user testing factory, then manual ignoring problems takes too much time and decrease time to testing. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308389

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[New: openFATE 308378] Add simple selection of partitions in installation process
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 15 Sep '11

15 Sep '11

Feature added by: Mindaugas Baranauskas (embar-) Feature #308378, revision 1 Title: Add simple selection of partitions in installation process openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Mindaugas Baranauskas (embar-) Description: Need option for simple partitions asigning to mount points in installation. In openSUSE installation from DVD, the selection of partitions of system – isn't friendly to new user. We could add option to simple (and more grafical) management of partitions. Now in comparing this installation step in openSUSE, Fedora, Mandriva and Ubuntu: our openSUSE is most uncomfortable (a lot of mouse clicks)! Ubuntu 9.10 and Fedora 12 provides simpler management; And Mandriva 2010.0 surprized – is the clearest for beginig user. The Mandriva way: Press "Use existting partition" and "Next" See collumn of partitions and near the collumn of mount points, that can be changed by click :) That's all! The partition with mount point "/" – will be automaticaly formated. I expect, that for most users – this is the most desireble way. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308378

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[openFATE 305932] testfeature
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

Feature added by: Chin-Hui Ho (tomcat) Feature #305932, revision 1, last change by Title: testfeature Requested by: Christopher Hofmann (cwh) Description: test 123 please delete me -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305932

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[openFATE 307777] Package Phoronix Test Suite
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 31 Aug '11

31 Aug '11

Feature added by: Ted Bullock (meiqur) Feature #307777, revision 1 Title: Package Phoronix Test Suite Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Ted Bullock (meiqur) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Phoronix is a moderately popular linux related website which has compiled a series of tests into a suite they call the Phoronix Test Suite. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: It would be interesting for users to be able to observe the changes in the performance of their systems from release to release. Also, it would useful to actually bring some numbers to discussions in bug reports rather than just vague statements like "computer is slow" -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307777

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[openFATE 307491] php5-qt
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 30 Aug '11

30 Aug '11

Feature added by: Dean Hilkewich (deanjo13) Feature #307491, revision 1 Title: php5-qt Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Dean Hilkewich (deanjo13) Description: It would be nice if php5-qt could be included with the php modules in the build service. There should be no legal issues with this now as qt now has a free licence. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307491

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