November 2009 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[openFATE 307482] Alien on Opensuse DVD
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Feature added by: Mircea Kitsune (MirceaKitsune) Feature #307482, revision 1 Title: Alien on Opensuse DVD openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Neutral Requested by: Mircea Kitsune (mirceakitsune) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: The Alien package converter would be a useful application to include on the Opensuse DVD, for easy installing on offline systems and including among other important tools that come with the distro (if licences allow distribution with Opensuse). Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Some Linux programs may not come with a .rpm installer. I believe portability and easy installation of software is important in any OS. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307482

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[openFATE 306571] Make project and package maintainers easily accessible
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Aug '10

12 Aug '10

Feature added by: Susanne Oberhauser (froh) Feature #306571, revision 1 Title: Make project and package maintainers easily accessible Buildservice: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Susanne Oberhauser (froh) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: obs automatically creates aliases package-$package@... , project-$project@... , maybe @hermes.opensuse.org . The mail should get a additional subject tag [pkg:$package] ... or [prj:$project] ... , and is Cc: ed to o-factory(a)o.o with this tag. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Currently it's a pita to reach package maintainers, either for the whole developer community on factory (because the mails are private and not archived) or for the maintainers (as they drown in the signal / noise ration on factory. Discussion: #1: Susanne Oberhauser (froh) (2009-06-25 14:46:16) Caution is needed to avoid spam What strategies do we have for this? can we benefit from the spam filtering that's done for o-factory@... ? #2: Susanne Oberhauser (froh) (2009-06-25 14:52:39) How do we deal with non o-factory@... subscribers? I see two alternatives: Block them from using the aliases (with a corresponding automatic reply). Or allow the posts, as they come from hermes.o.o --- and make hermes deal smartly with replies, e.g. by appropriately adding the original autor of the message to the bounced message. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306571

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[openFate 305267] Installation using Orca (screen reader) to Improve Accessibility
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Feature added by: Lukas Ocilka <locilka(a)novell.com> Feature #305267, revision 1, last change by Title: Installation using Orca (screen reader) to Improve Accessibility openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Darragh Ó Héiligh <d(a)digitaldarragh.com> Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Original title: Accessibility for installation could be automated with better results. Users can currently press F9 at the boot screen to hear the boot options spoken. THis is a fantastic new feature and is one that OpenSuSE is the first to add. For this you should be very proud. However, I would ask that you further build upon this success by recognising that accessibility at the boot menu has been enabled and automatically start the Orca screen reader with also setting gnome accessibility to enabled. One further consideration should be taken into account. To enable Orca to access the installation screen, Orca must be run as root. However, if Orca is run as root, the rest of the desktop is not accessible due to permissioning issues. Therefore, the installation should be run automatically if the f9 key si pressed. Note, a similar feature excluding the accessible boot menu has also been added to Ubuntu 8.04. Note that they also have a key press (F5) to automatically enable assistive technologies for installation on their live CD. References: See bnc #417874 (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=417874) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305267

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[openFATE 307985] MozillaSunbird-devel
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 06 Aug '10

06 Aug '10

Feature added by: Henrik Kaare Poulsen (kaarposoft) Feature #307985, revision 1 Title: MozillaSunbird-devel Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Henrik Kaare Poulsen (kaarposoft) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Development package with header files for MozillaSunbird needed Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Needed to build mozilla-sync plugin for OpenSync -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307985

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[openFate 305589] Checkbox "include user home projects in search"
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 30 Jul '10

30 Jul '10

Feature added by: Pavol Rusnak <prusnak(a)novell.com> Feature #305589, revision 1, last change by Title: Checkbox "include user home projects in search" Buildservice: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Pavol Rusnak <prusnak(a)novell.com> Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Here's one idea to start with: on the search page, have a checkbox labeled "Include user home projects in search" which defaults to OFF. Then at least you have one level of separation (between "official" and home projects) that is clear to both developers and users. And developers will be motivated to move their generally useful packages into an "official" project by the fact that the default checkbox is OFF. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-buildservice/2008-12/msg00088.html -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305589

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[openFATE 306968] rewrite yast in C#
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 29 Jul '10

29 Jul '10

Feature added by: Sharque uddin Ahmed Farooqui (safknw) Feature #306968, revision 1 Title: rewrite yast in C# openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Sharque uddin Ahmed Farooqui (safknw) Description: Yast is the best control panel for any ditro. It has become quite big and it has alot of modules and many more to come Since yast is wrriten in its own language ( http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Research/Make_YaST_Independent_of_YCP ) which quite few people know, so it is difficult others to get involved. I think we should start thinking about rewriting yast in a popular and advanced () language like C++, python or C#.... It will make development of yast faster and people find it easy to write modules according thier own requirements. My suggestion is to write it in C#. Writting it in such an advance can make app arch much simpler and also make it easy to maintain. My target relase is 12.0, sisnce it is not in option so I'm selecting 11.3 -- Sharique -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306968

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[openFATE 306646] add option to yast to disable tcp window scaling
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 13 Jul '10

13 Jul '10

Feature added by: Jose Ricardo De Leon Solis (derhundchen) Feature #306646, revision 1 Title: add option to yast to disable tcp window scaling openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Jose Ricardo De Leon Solis (derhundchen) Description: I live in Guatemala and like most people in countries like mine I don't have a broadband connection, so everytime I install openSUSE I see myself opening a terminal to disable tcp window scaling and opening kate with root permisions to edit /etc/sysctl.conf to make the change permanent. Though is not complicated to do, it has become an expensive operation to perform. So it would be nice for me and for those of us who need to disable this feature to have an option to disable it in yast. It would be nice to see it in the same tab in which one can disable ipv6. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306646

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[openFATE 306766] Show new and updated package versions in zypper/yast
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 13 Jul '10

13 Jul '10

Feature added by: Vincent Petry (PVince81) Feature #306766, revision 1 Title: Show new and updated package versions in zypper/yast openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Vincent Petry (pvince81) Description: After refreshing a repository, it would be nice to have a feature that allows to see which new packages have appeared and which package version has changed since the last refresh, like smart does. This could be done by adding an extra information in the package list row, either as icon or color, or field. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306766

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[openFATE 306903] Ship Xorg 7.5 / x-server 1.7
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 23 Jun '10

23 Jun '10

Feature added by: Michael Löffler (michl19) Feature #306903, revision 1 Title: Ship Xorg 7.5 / x-server 1.7 openSUSE-11.2: Evaluation Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Michael Löffler (michl19) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Xorg 7.5 / x-server 1.7 (due: mid august) By the time 11.2 arrives in mid november the x-server 1.6 will already be over six months old, and X.org 7.4 itself will be over a year old. The inclusion of X.org 7.5 and kernel 2.6.31 will keep 11.2 fresh and relevant throughout its nine month life, and prevent the perception of staleness among suse enthusiasts in 2010. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: The inclusion for X.org 7.5 will keep 11.2 fresh and relevant throughout its life time and prevent the perception of staleness among SUSE enthusiasts in 2010. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306903

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[openFATE 308036] GNOME Icons
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '10

22 Jun '10

Feature added by: belal mandurah (belal_mandurah) Feature #308036, revision 1 Title: GNOME Icons openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: belal mandurah (belal_mandurah) Description: Why the sonar-icon-theme.rpm is not installed as a default? I think it blends more nicely with the Sonar theme than the current icons. The current icons are blueish which i think clashes with the green theme and wall paper. but the soar icons are green. I hope you can make it available for the comming opensuse 11.2. (ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/opensuse/factory/repo/oss/suse/noarch/sonar-ico…) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308036

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