December 2009 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[openFATE 306940] NX/NeatX remotable desktop sessions
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 11 Feb '10

11 Feb '10

Feature added by: Tin Blaskovic (canobix) Feature #306940, revision 1 Title: NX/NeatX remotable desktop sessions openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Tin Blaskovic (canobix) Description: Since the NX server (http://www.nomachine.com) libraries are GPL-ed, there is now a Google project Neatx (http://code.google.com/p/neatx/) that provides a free clean and stable NX server implementation. Together with FreeNX client libraries and a standalone client (http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/freenx/trunk/freenx-client/nxcl/) , all the components are now available for adding out-of-the-box support for a remotely usable personal Linux desktop. Right now it can be achieved by manually loging into a failsafe X session and starting an NX session to a local server. That session can then be detached and resumed remotely, exhibiting the characteristics (including the speed) comparable to, if not better, than an MS windows terminal (remote desktop) session. It would be handy if creating a "remotable" session that works as described above would be automated and could be chosen from the login screen, so in addition to "KDE", "GNOME", "Failsafe" and other session types, there would be a "KDE remotable","GNOME remotable" or similar types of sessions. Since many of business users still primarily work at their desktops, this would enable them to more easily work remotely, as well as bring Linux desktop features on par with that from the Windows world. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306940

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[openFATE 306933] Integrate Social Desktop into our Desktop
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 10 Feb '10

10 Feb '10

Feature added by: Michael Löffler (michl19) Feature #306933, revision 1 Title: Integrate Social Desktop into our Desktop openSUSE-11.2: Evaluation Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Michael Löffler (michl19) Description: Social interaction between people becomes more important than ever. Communicating over the Internet via mails, forums and internet platforms is just normal. Just think of Facebook, Flickr, BitTorrent... One of the strongest assets of the free software community is its worldwide community of contributors and users who believe in free software and who work hard to bring the software and solutions to the mainstream. Core idea of the Social Desktop is to connect to your peers in the community, making sharing and exchanging knowledge easier to integrate into applications and the desktop itself. The concept behind the Social Desktop is to bring the power of online communities and group collaboration to desktop applications and the desktop shell itself. This feature is about the integration of such a social desktop into our desktop. If integrated it should be simply to use its functionalities but everybody needs to have free choice to use it or not. The targetgroup of the new community / social network is not only developers but also the end users who are not familiar with technical stuff and can with an integrated social desktop get easily in contact with people in the same area or people with same interests or software issues. Creation of some kind of facebook for openSUSE may stimulate the openSUSE adoption and bind existing users to the distribution. This could be beneficial for the marketshare of openSUSE. Another aspect is that this kind of communities can transform users into contributors. References: http://www.open-collaboration-services.org/ http://www.opendesktop.org -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306933

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[openFATE 308184] canon dr 2080 c dokument scanner driver
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 10 Feb '10

10 Feb '10

Feature added by: Veit Mischel (vminov) Feature #308184, revision 1 Title: canon dr 2080 c dokument scanner driver Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Veit Mischel (vminov) Description: It is possible to write a driver for canon dr 2080 c document scanner . This scanner could be controlled over scsi card or usb. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308184

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[openFATE 307753] Share files with others remotely - Dropbox by default
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 10 Feb '10

10 Feb '10

Feature added by: Rastislav Krupansky (ra100) Feature #307753, revision 1 Title: Share files with others remotely - Dropbox by default openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Neutral Requested by: Rastislav Krupansky (ra100) Description: Seeing that openSUSE is focusing on social networks, or the web applications like YAST elements - WebYAST, i think it would be great to offer something for synchronization files, sharing and work with others remotely. I think good choice might be Dropbox, which is multiplatform. Nautilus has already extension - nautilus-dropbox, but i don´t know whether any plugin is available under Dolphin, XFCE, etc.. I haven´t found yet. The one of ways could be here - http://antrix.net/journal/techtalk/dropbox_kde.comments -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307753

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[openFATE 307200] Replace ifconfig by iproute2 - add warning messages to old tools
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

Feature added by: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) Feature #307200, revision 1 Title: Replace ifconfig by iproute2 - add warning messages to old tools openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) Description: Because Novell once again cannot be convinced, I am putting https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492665 to public vote here. net-tools (/sbin/ifconfig, /sbin/route, arp, etc.) has numerous problems, not to mention that it is not developed since April 2001 anymore. Since April 2004, iproute2 is available as a replacement for ifconfig, but users still use the old tools with the seemingly-crippled functionality. I propose printing a warning message upon invocation to try and educate users to finally use the modern tools. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307200

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[New: openFATE 308396] Quick "insert new sheet" tab
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Feb '10

05 Feb '10

Feature added by: Kohei Yoshida (kohei_yoshida) Feature #308396, revision 1 Title: Quick "insert new sheet" tab Requested by: Kohei Yoshida (kohei_yoshida) Description: Calc should support quick insertion of new sheets by clicking a designated tab, much like how Firefox 3.5 allows quick insertion of new tabs via the "plus" button, and Excel 2007 via the new tab button. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308396

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[New: openFATE 308275] YaBS - Yet another business software
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 31 Jan '10

31 Jan '10

Feature added by: andreas weber (anti43) Feature #308275, revision 1 Title: YaBS - Yet another business software Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: andreas weber (anti43) Description: Yabs - Yet another Business Software Multilanguage Billing and accounting software for Linux and others, oriented to European markets (unlike GNU Cash) * manages products and contacts as basic data * generates offers, orders, invoices and reminders * writes PDF- or ODF-documents (OpenOffice-format) * uses an unique .odt template system * is a multiuser software. * is the successor of der MP Invoicing. * GPL v2+ * is developed in Java. * works on Linux, Windows and Mac OSX * uses any JDBC compliant database backend (currently Apache Derby and MySQL out-of-the-box) * works in heterogenous networks * RPMs available * Translation module inbuild for easy translations in any language Mailing list: mp-rechnungs-und-kundenverwaltung(a)googlegroups.com Webpage: http://openyabs.org -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308275

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[openFATE 307729] Officially Provide LXDE
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 25 Jan '10

25 Jan '10

Feature added by: andrea florio (anubisg1) Feature #307729, revision 1 Title: Officially Provide LXDE openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: andrea florio (anubisg1) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: LXDE stands for L ightweight X 11 D esktop E nvironment.It is an extremely faster, performing and energy saving desktop environment. It is maintained by an international community of developers and comes with a beautiful interface, multi-language support, standard keyboard short cuts and additional features like tabbed file browsing LXDE actually is lighter than xfce and it's stable and mature enought to stay into openSUSE. Actually big distros like mandriva already provides LXDE. Mandriva for example allow you to install LXDE from DVD media. The only "problem" that LXDE has is the Login Manager, xdm is quite ugly and SLIM looks to be no more developed. That "problem" will be hopefully fixed in few weeks, infact they are now developing their login manager, LXDM as you can see here: http://blog.lxde.org/?p=531 Will be wonderful to have LXDE officially supported by openSUSE and why not, even available into the installation media. more infos: http://en.opensuse.org/LXDE http://lxde.org/ Use Case: The user will find LXDE packages into OSS repository, He will be able to install it using patterns. The user will install openSUSE using DVD, on DE selection he will able to select "other DE" and then LXDE from that list Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Because that will attract more user, and will allow you to provide an openSUSE version able to running on 128MB of ram with X server running -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307729

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[openFATE 307196] Buildservice: Accepting of Submissions only with Successfully Build Packages
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jan '10

22 Jan '10

Feature added by: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) Feature #307196, revision 1 Title: Buildservice: Accepting of Submissions only with Successfully Build Packages Buildservice: Evaluation Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: I recently noticed that somebody submitted a package to openSUSE:Factory (and it got checked in) that has never ever build in the build service since it has obvious packaging problems (the %setup step did not work at all plus many more problems). I propose that "osc request show" informs the reviewer about the build status of the package. Additionally, "osc accept" should ask for confirmation if the package has not build successfully. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: This will help to not have packages that do not build at all. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307196

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[openFATE 307480] Development of .spec files - .specfile editor and wizard
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jan '10

22 Jan '10

Feature added by: Glenn Doig (doiggl) Feature #307480, revision 1 Title: Development of .spec files - .specfile editor and wizard Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Glenn Doig (doiggl) Description: Hello, Can this tool be included to help and assist on the creation of .spec files ?. http://wiki.eclipse.org/Linux_Tools_Project/SpecfileEditor/User_Guide (http://wiki.eclipse.org/Linux_Tools_Project/SpecfileEditor/User_Guide) The Specfile Editor plug-in provides a wizard for creating new .spec files too. Cheers Glenn -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307480

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