November 2009 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[New: openFATE 308419] FPC & Lazarus
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 13 Jun '12

13 Jun '12

Feature added by: Matthias Klumpp (lintns) Feature #308419, revision 1 Title: FPC & Lazarus Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Matthias Klumpp (lintns) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Please create a FPC and a Lazarus package for openSUSE so that applications programmed using Free Pascal can be compiled on openSUSE without troubles. You can take the Fedora package as starting point. http://freepascal.org http://lazarus.freepascal.org Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Some applications like WinFF, easyMP3Gain or Listaller need the Pascal development environment to be compiled. Pascal is also an ideal language for education and for writing powerful cross platform applications. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308419

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[New: openFATE 308280] wqy font integration
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 13 Jun '12

13 Jun '12

Feature added by: Mingxi Wu (Mingxi_Wu) Feature #308280, revision 1 Title: wqy font integration Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Mingxi Wu (mingxi_wu) Description: Current fonts used in openSuSE for chinese users uming is somehow out of date. Most other distros like Ubuntu now use wqy as a replacement, and give a use better look&feel. wqy font is already existing in BuildService now, so there is no techinal problem for the integration. So I recommend wqy as a default font for Chinese users in openSuSE 11.3 -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308280

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[openFATE 306648] iiimf
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 13 Jun '12

13 Jun '12

Feature added by: Ailin Nemui (ailin_nemui) Feature #306648, revision 1 Title: iiimf Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Ailin Nemui (ailin_nemui) Description: I would love for someone to package the IIIMF - Internet/Intranet Input Method Framework, so I can use some input methods like Chinese Character Recognition "wtpen" in OpenSUSE. The program doesn't compile out of the box. IIIMF can be found at http://svn.openi18n.org:8081/repos/im-sdk/trunk/ -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306648

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[openFATE 306928] Better integration of YaST webpin client into openSUSE
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 09 May '12

09 May '12

Feature added by: Katarina Machalkova (kmachalkova) Feature #306928, revision 1 Title: Better integration of YaST webpin client into openSUSE Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Katarina Machalkova (kmachalkova) Description: <p><a href="http://hedgehogpainter.livejournal.com/#asset-hedgehogpainter-4686">YaST webpin client</a> is done and usable since quite some time already, yet its integration into platform is far from being smooth. openSUSE users have very few chances to learn about it in order to use it. This feature consists of two parts:<ul> <li> Webpin search client will be accessible and launchable from menu entry, added to Qt/Gtk/Ncurses package selectors </li><li> New package yast2-packager-webpin will be splitted off yast2-packager, containing webpin module, client + additional .desktop file </li></ul>The purpose of the latter is not to clutter YaST control centre with too many icons, installed along with yast2-packager (which is in default installation). This way, user will get extra icon only if yast2-packager-webpin</p> -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306928

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[openFATE 306624] voting mechanism for membership approval on users.o.o
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 08 May '12

08 May '12

Feature added by: Hendrik Vogelsang (hennevogel) Feature #306624, revision 1 Title: voting mechanism for membership approval on users.o.o Hackweek IV: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Hendrik Vogelsang (hennevogel) Description: To be better able to vote on membership approvals the openSUSE board is looking for some ruby hacker willing to implement a voting mechanism in users.opensuse.org. users.o.o is a ruby on rails application. Pepple that want to become openSUSE members fill out an application form in users.o.o. This is then evaluated by the openSUSE board. Each application is voted upon. What is missing in users.o.o is the possiblity to vote on those applications. This would need a couple of things: Each application needs a state attribute with the following content: * New * To be Accepted * Accepted * To be Rejected * Rejected Also the respective listings in the interface are needed. And for each board member an voting field. (+1,0,-1) coupled with a free text field. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306624

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[openFATE 307436] Backup utility
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 07 May '12

07 May '12

Feature added by: Alin M Elena (ealin) Feature #307436, revision 1 Title: Backup utility openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Alin M Elena (ealin) Description: Hi, Would be nice if we can have an user backup application by default in kde4. I propose back-in-time http://backintime.le-web.org/ it has both kde4 and gnome interfaces and is relatively simple to use. regards, Alin -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307436

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[openFATE 305881] Add a simple way to access the rpmlint report
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 17 Apr '12

17 Apr '12

Feature added by: Vincent Untz (vuntz) Feature #305881, revision 1, last change by Title: Add a simple way to access the rpmlint report Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Vincent Untz (vuntz) Description: Right now, to see the rpmlint report of a build, you have to get the complete build log, which can be slow (because it's big). Having a faster way to read the rpmlint report could result in some tools to highlight what should be fixed, and therefore in better packages. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305881

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[openFATE 307621] Provide public interface to submit patchinfos
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 17 Apr '12

17 Apr '12

Feature added by: Dirk Mueller (dirkmueller) Feature #307621, revision 1 Title: Provide public interface to submit patchinfos Buildservice: New Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Dirk Mueller (dirkmueller) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: For openSUSE 11.2 it should be possible for external community members to submit maintenance updates. It is already possible to submit the changed packages itself, however the patchinfo file can not be submitted by external members. The feature would be to allow to attach the information needed for a patchinfo file (maybe except for a swampid) to be submitted by an external community member. One possible implementation method would be a new submitrequest type in the buildservice API. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Make use of community members for providing updates -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307621

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[openFATE 306849] Drop requests comment have to be public/archived
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 17 Apr '12

17 Apr '12

Feature added by: Stephan Binner (Beineri) Feature #306849, revision 1 Title: Drop requests comment have to be public/archived Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Stephan Binner (beineri) Description: Comments of accepted drop requests should appear in opensuse-commit mails which inform about the package being dropped. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306849

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[openFATE 306232] Quality Classification Of Projects
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 17 Apr '12

17 Apr '12

Feature added by: Adrian Schröter (adrianSuSE) Feature #306232, revision 1, last change by Title: Quality Classification Of Projects Buildservice: Evaluation Priority Requester: Important Projectmanager: Important Requested by: Adrian Schröter (adriansuse) Description: A Project should get a classification, set by the project owner about the general quality. This classification should have an influence to the software search for the end user (by default he wants stable stuff, but he might also looks for latest snapshots). Possible classifications are: * STABLE -- project is considered to be ready to use for End-Users * TESTING -- project should work from point of developer view, but needs verification * DEVELOPMENT -- project is random state, it might work. * BROKEN -- project is known to be not working atm. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306232

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[openFATE 305907] Support Update Repo Generation
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 17 Apr '12

17 Apr '12

Feature added by: Adrian Schröter (adrianSuSE) Feature #305907, revision 1, last change by Title: Support Update Repo Generation Buildservice: Evaluation Priority Requester: Desirable Projectmanager: Desirable Requested by: Adrian Schröter (adriansuse) Description: The Build Service should offer update repos as repository channel. It is unclear right now, how we will carry in the extra update information texts. This should maybe designed together with a new changelog handling. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305907

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[openFATE 307727] Do not install Apparmore per default
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 03 Apr '12

03 Apr '12

Feature added by: Carsten Hoeger (choeger) Feature #307727, revision 1 Title: Do not install Apparmore per default openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Carsten Hoeger (choeger) Description: Do not install AppArmor per default. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307727

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[openFATE 307748] autokey
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 06 Mar '12

06 Mar '12

Feature added by: Erik Luijten (luijten) Feature #307748, revision 1 Title: autokey Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Erik Luijten (luijten) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: I very much would like the autokey package (currently only on Ubuntu) to be included in openSuSE. URL: http://autokey.sourceforge.net/ Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: There seems to be no other general keyboard macro/textexpansion utility available for Linux, even though this is an important productivity tool. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307748

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[openFATE 306367] Boot fast (not just faster)
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 09 Feb '12

09 Feb '12

Feature added by: Stephan Kulow (coolo) Feature #306367, revision 1, last change by Title: Boot fast (not just faster) openSUSE-11.2: Evaluation Priority Requester: Mandatory Projectmanager: Important Requested by: Stephan Kulow (coolo) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Booting fast Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Everyone loves fast boot. Other distributions claim to maintain the crown. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306367

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[openFATE 307522] Improove font rendering on openSUSE
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 04 Jan '12

04 Jan '12

Feature added by: Andres Linares (satoshi-takao) Feature #307522, revision 1 Title: Improove font rendering on openSUSE openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Andres Linares (satoshi-takao) Description: It would be great if font rendering in openSUSE looks like Mac OS X's or Windows' with Cleartype. Ubuntu has improoved it a little. I think this could be important for openSUSE interface. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307522

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[openFATE 307416] add low latency kernel to OSS repo
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 30 Dec '11

30 Dec '11

Feature added by: Sergio Gabriel (Dahool) Feature #307416, revision 1 Title: add low latency kernel to OSS repo Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Sergio Gabriel (dahool) Description: Having rt flavour kernel would be very useful for people like me who use linux for making music, today I have to reboot with ubuntustudio everytime I need to use this. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307416

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[New: openFATE 308353] get rid of mandb cron job
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 15 Dec '11

15 Dec '11

Feature added by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Feature #308353, revision 1 Title: get rid of mandb cron job openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Description: /etc/cron.daily/suse-do_mandb runs every day to create the man page indexes and the whois databae even if no package was installed. This exercises the hard disk quite a bit. A smarter solution would be to update the index and whois db each time a manpage gets added or removed, just like it's done with info pages. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308353

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[openFATE 306625] automatic email alias, irc cloak, lizards data generation on users.o.o
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Dec '11

05 Dec '11

Feature added by: Hendrik Vogelsang (hennevogel) Feature #306625, revision 1 Title: automatic email alias, irc cloak, lizards data generation on users.o.o Hackweek IV: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Hendrik Vogelsang (hennevogel) Description: To be able to maintain the list of @opensuse.org email aliases, freenode irc cloaks and lizards.o.o logins for members the openSUSE board is looking for a ruby hacker willing to implement automatic generation of aliases/cloaks in users.opensuse.org. users.o.o is a ruby on rails application. Each opensuse member has 2 email aliases (login(a)opensuse.org, forename.surname(a)opensuse.org) an freenode IRC cloak and a wordpress login to lizards.opensuse.org. At the moment this data is exported and imported manualy to the different systems. What we would need is a way to make this automatic and have the data changeable by the user. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306625

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[New: openFATE 308360] use lockdev
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 25 Nov '11

25 Nov '11

Feature added by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Feature #308360, revision 1 Title: use lockdev openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Description: Ever since resmgr was dropped there is no way for unprivileged users to lock a device file such as /dev/ttyS0 even if the user has access to the device. A similar problem exists for usb devices in /dev/bus/usb. RedHat uses lockdev to solve the problem. It's a setgid 'lock' binary that manages the lock files. /var/lock is writeable by group 'lock' only. To be really useful the lockdev code needs to be cleaned up so a library is used to call the 'lockdev' helper binary. That way rpm would automatically catch the dependency. Any program accessing serial ports or usb devices as user could make use of lockdev, e.g. libgphoto2 minicom ppp sane-backends screen uucp ... References: http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/devel/lockdev/ http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/lockdev http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#VARLOCKLOCKFILES -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308360

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[openFATE 306188] request for RAID metadata version specification option in Partitioner's install interface
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 23 Nov '11

23 Nov '11

Feature added by: Arvin Schnell (aschnell) Feature #306188, revision 1, last change by Title: request for RAID metadata version specification option in Partitioner's install interface openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: pgnet _ (pgnet) Description: Allow setting of software raid superblock version in YaST. Relations: - request for RAID metadata version specification option in Partitioner's install interface (novell/bugzilla/id: 483973) https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483973 -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306188

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[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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