December 2009 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[openFATE 307556] Provide an easy way to find Factory devel package with unsubmitted project.diff
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 10 May '10

10 May '10

Feature added by: Ralf Haferkamp (rhafer) Feature #307556, revision 1 Title: Provide an easy way to find Factory devel package with unsubmitted project.diff Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Ralf Haferkamp (rhafer) Description: It would be very helpful to have an overiew in the webfrontends that shows which factory-devel packages are "out-of-sync" with factory. I.e. they have uncommited (not submitted to Factory) projects.diffs in their file list. This could e.g. be part of the "My Projects" page. (Or hermes could sent regular notification about uncommited changes.) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307556

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[openFATE 307915] Project source link (forwarder)
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 03 May '10

03 May '10

Feature added by: Adrian Schröter (adrianSuSE) Feature #307915, revision 1 Title: Project source link (forwarder) Buildservice: Candidate Priority Requester: Mandatory Projectmanager: Mandatory Requested by: Adrian Schröter (adriansuse) Description: For preparing maintenance updates we need a way to allow references to the :Update projects, even if a certain package does not exist there yet. This need to work for source check outs and source links. However, not for building (:Update shall not build all packages by default). A proposal to support this would be via a so called "project source link" with additional flags. Something like this for the project xml meta data: <link project="$PROJECT" /> This could be later extended to enable entire shadow builds (aka our former BETA distributions: <link project="$PROJECT"> <build repository="$REPOSITORY" arch="$ARCH"> </link> -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307915

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[New: openFATE 308261] Include Bibus, a bibliography tool that interacts with Openoffice via UNO
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Apr '10

26 Apr '10

Feature added by: Sven Burmeister (rabauke) Feature #308261, revision 1 Title: Include Bibus, a bibliography tool that interacts with Openoffice via UNO Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Sven Burmeister (rabauke) Description: OpenOffice lacks a decent bibliography support which is mandatory for scientific writing. Bibus is a python tool available for all platforms, i.e. Windows users can use the same tool when switching to Linux. It can interact with Openoffice via the UNO api, i.e. it does not only export its data, but inserts it into the OO document. It can even be used with a central database, i.e. for companies that want to share their bibliogrphic data. The projects website is: http://bibus-biblio.sourceforge.net/ -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308261

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[New: openFATE 308468] Video Podcast help icon (to internet page) for new install
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 16 Apr '10

16 Apr '10

Feature added by: Lee Matheson (oldcpu) Feature #308468, revision 1 Title: Video Podcast help icon (to internet page) for new install openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Lee Matheson (oldcpu) Description: Link on desktop (or part of help menu) to general openSUSE Linux podcasts prepared by SuSE-GmbH or community members. The video podcasts should be very basic tutorials in openSUSE linux. They do not have to be openSUSE version specific, nor openSUSE linux specific. By making them general they can stay current for several openSUSE releases, reducing the maintenance work load. Video Podcasts should be done in an "open" format/codec such that they can be run immediately after a fresh install. Subjects could include: * OpenSUSE basics tour (yast, internet community ... ) * KDE desktop tour * Gnome destkop tour * openSUSE software Package Management * Linux file system hiarchy * Linux terminal/bash shell introduction Of course the above podcasts would have to be created first :) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308468

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[openFATE 306502] Disable automount
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 14 Apr '10

14 Apr '10

Feature added by: Jakub Rusinek (liviopl) Feature #306502, revision 1 Title: Disable automount openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Jakub Rusinek (liviopl) Description: When repartitioning HDD, automount can hurt. The same when installing system. At least for partitioners and installers "lifetime", automount should be disabled. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306502

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[New: openFATE 308474] Only install a recommended subset of screensavers by default
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 07 Apr '10

07 Apr '10

Feature added by: Vincent Untz (vuntz) Feature #308474, revision 1 Title: Only install a recommended subset of screensavers by default openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Vincent Untz (vuntz) Description: At the moment, a default openSUSE install gets all the screensavers from xscreensaver. While it's quite nice, for most people, that's way too much. I believe a selection of 10-15 screensavers should be made, and then the xscreensaver package should be split in: * xscreensaver: would contain the binary, and its data files * xscreensaver-recommended: would contain the recommended screensavers * xscreensaver-extras: would contain all the other screensavers Note that we'll also need to adapt the gnome-screensaver packaging for this, but that should be easy. Also, this would make it possible to install xscreensaver-recommended without xscreensaver itself, which is useful for GNOME, but probably also for KDE. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308474

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[New: openFATE 308598] Samba Description Field
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 31 Mar '10

31 Mar '10

Feature added by: Malvern Star (Solaris444) Feature #308598, revision 1 Title: Samba Description Field openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Malvern Star (solaris444) Description: The Samba Server YaST UI should allow users to edit the description field that is visible to the network for each machine. The Samba Server configuration component in YaST allows users to set shares, workgroup, netbios identifier and WINS server for the machine, however it does not allow the user to set the description field. The is somewhat inconvenient as the default description is always the Samba version string, meaning that Windows machines (which display the description string FIRST when viewing the network) will group all Linux machines on the network together. It would be helpful to be able to set this field without enabling swat or editing the Samba config file. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308598

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[openFATE 307552] Cups 1.4 RPM's
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

Feature added by: Dean Hilkewich (deanjo13) Feature #307552, revision 1 Title: Cups 1.4 RPM's Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Dean Hilkewich (deanjo13) Description: It would be nice if the cups packages could be upgraded to 1.4 in 11.2. I realize it's a bit late in the development stage but it just went final on Aug 28th and does carry a large number of improvements. http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/whatsnew.html -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307552

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[New: openFATE 308407] Simplify debranding in Kiwi and SUSE Studio
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 29 Mar '10

29 Mar '10

Feature added by: M. Edward (Ed) Borasky (znmeb) Feature #308407, revision 1 Title: Simplify debranding in Kiwi and SUSE Studio openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: M. Edward (Ed) Borasky (znmeb) Description: I build appliances based on openSUSE. I've done some of them in SUSE Studio, and some of them on my workstation using Kiwi, VirtualBox OSE, Xen or VMware Workstation. I am starting to get some that I'd like to distribute. In order to distribute them, I need to be able to re-brand some packages - remove the openSUSE branding and replace it with upstream branding or my own. See http://en.opensuse.org/Making_a_SUSE_based_distribution (http://en.opensuse.org/Making_a_SUSE_based_distribution) for the details. I've tried to do this using SUSE Studio, since it's a lot more convenient, but I have been unable to create a de-branded appliance because of package conflicts in the built-in patterns. See http://n2.nabble.com/Branding-distributing-etc-tp4030350p4030350.html (http://n2.nabble.com/Branding-distributing-etc-tp4030350p4030350.html) The essential difficulty, both in SUSE Studio and in Kiwi is that the base patterns which define package lists contain unremovable branding packages. For these patterns, I need to 1) Find a list of all the packages in the patterns and their dependencies 2) Acquire the source for the branded packages, de-brand them at the source level, and then rebuild binary RPMs. That's a significant amount of labor with no value added to the recipients of the redistributed software. So what I am requesting is that the openSUSE project 1) Make the base patterns ("default", "kde4", "gnome", "xfce", etc.) branding-free, and create a new "branding-openSUSE" pattern to replace the upstream branding with openSUSE branding, and 2) Create de-branded RPMs for the few packages that don't have a "branding-upstream" equivalent. I haven't done the research to identify all of these, but I believe most of them are in the YaST infrastructure. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308407

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[New: openFATE 308344] archive mounter
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

Feature added by: Andrew Jorgensen (ajorgensen) Feature #308344, revision 1 Title: archive mounter openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Andrew Jorgensen (ajorgensen) Description: GVFS supports mounting archives like iso, zip, tar.gz, etc. Making a menu entry to mount archives is trivial. Ubuntu has had this for a while now and it's very handy. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308344

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