December 2009 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[New: openFATE 308440] Official Screensaver
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 20 Dec '10

20 Dec '10

Feature added by: Quentin Denis (queden) Feature #308440, revision 1 Title: Official Screensaver openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Quentin Denis (queden) Description: What about an official screensaver for openSUSE? Like Windows always has had, something humble and soft, but stylish! Currently there is no useful screensaver, either they're to crappy or to agressive. Regards, Quentin -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308440

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[openFATE 305923] osc revert or merge
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 18 Dec '10

18 Dec '10

Feature added by: Will Stephenson (wstephenson) Feature #305923, revision 1, last change by Title: osc revert or merge Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Will Stephenson (wstephenson) Description: The only way to revert packages currently is very inconvenient. Some more svn semantics like osc merge to enable reverts would help. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305923

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[openFATE 306582] I need to be able to cc a colleague
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 17 Dec '10

17 Dec '10

Feature added by: Linux Tag (LinuxTag2009) Feature #306582, revision 1 Title: I need to be able to cc a colleague openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Linux Tag (linuxtag2009) Description: collaboration is not readily available. I currently need to convice everyody to add himself as interested, I cannot invite anybody directly. Use Case: would be helpful for getting a feature discussion started -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306582

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[openFATE 307115] Open Multiple files
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 17 Dec '10

17 Dec '10

Feature added by: Claude Gouedard (cgoued) Feature #307115, revision 1 Title: Open Multiple files Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Claude Gouedard (cgoued) Description: Hi all, In openning files for a new project, it would be nice to be able openning more than one file at a time. It is just a question of an evolved widget. Thanks in advance cgoued -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307115

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[openFate 305695] Binary Upload of prebuild packges
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 17 Dec '10

17 Dec '10

Feature added by: Martin Mohring (MartinMohring) Feature #305695, revision 1, last change by Title: Binary Upload of prebuild packges Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Martin Mohring (martinmohring) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Ths allow also developers without direct access to the OBS backend to create distributions that consist of only binary packages or that are initially created from binary packages, there should be a combination of backend and osc be capable to upload binary files to :full directory of a project. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305695

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[New: openFATE 308564] UI: Show Date of files in a Package/Project
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 17 Dec '10

17 Dec '10

Feature added by: Thomas Biege (thomasbiege) Feature #308564, revision 1 Title: UI: Show Date of files in a Package/Project Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Thomas Biege (thomasbiege) Description: Hello, having the date of files being displayed in the web-ui would be a helpful enhancement. Currently only the size of the files are shown. Thanks. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308564

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[openFATE 306175] More powerful Build Service search
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 17 Dec '10

17 Dec '10

Feature added by: Will Stephenson (wstephenson) Feature #306175, revision 1, last change by Title: More powerful Build Service search Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Will Stephenson (wstephenson) Description: Sometimes you only want to search the 'official' projects, not everyone's scratch projects. An 'exclude home: projects' toggle in osc and the web frontend would be a good start This could be implemented as a specialisation of an --exclude-projects-matching <regexp> - and then you need a --search-only-matching <regexp> option for symmetry. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306175

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[New: openFATE 308500] Replace qtcurve-gtk2 with Oxygen look-alike in KDE setups
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 16 Dec '10

16 Dec '10

Feature added by: Philipp Massek (pmassek) Feature #308500, revision 1 Title: Replace qtcurve-gtk2 with Oxygen look-alike in KDE setups openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Philipp Massek (pmassek) Description: With the release of openSUSE 11.2, KDE-integration of a few important apps (most notably Firefox) has progressed a great deal, including fitting icon themes and dialogs. The default GTK style is still Curve though, which isn't quite consistent with the Oxygen widget style. This can be easily remedied with the "Oxygen-Molecule" GTK style (http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Oxygen-Molecule+KDE+&+GTK%2B+unifi…) and it would be nice to see this or something to that effect in future versions of the distribution. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308500

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[New: openFATE 308425] Please port Slick icon theme to KDE4
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 16 Dec '10

16 Dec '10

Feature added by: Ilya Chernykh (Ansus) Feature #308425, revision 1 Title: Please port Slick icon theme to KDE4 openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Ilya Chernykh (ansus) Description: This is a very cool icon theme polssibly inspired by Vista's icons. Please port it from KDE3 to KDE4. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308425

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[New: openFATE 308297] Per Application Volume in KDE
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 16 Dec '10

16 Dec '10

Feature added by: Wyatt Gosling (beachchairs) Feature #308297, revision 1 Title: Per Application Volume in KDE openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Wyatt Gosling (beachchairs) Description: Pulse Audio gives users the ability to set sound volumes per application, but there is currently no UI to do this in KDE4. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308297

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[New: openFATE 308395] Battery Time Remaining
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 16 Dec '10

16 Dec '10

Feature added by: Barry Nichols (Barry_Nichols) Feature #308395, revision 1 Title: Battery Time Remaining openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Barry Nichols (barry_nichols) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: On mouse over the KDE battery widget on the panel, display the time remaining aswell as the currently displayed percent remaining. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: This will make it easier to know how long the battery in the laptop has remaining before charging is required. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308395

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[openFate 305081] openSUSE Testfeature
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 11 Dec '10

11 Dec '10

Feature added by: Christopher Hofmann (cwh(a)novell.com) Feature #305081, revision 1 Title: openSUSE Testfeature openSUSE-11.1: New Priority Requester: Neutral Requested by: Christopher Hofmann (cwh(a)novell.com) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Feel free to play aroud with this feature. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305081

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[openFATE 308148] Add support for autoremove obsolete packages
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 08 Dec '10

08 Dec '10

Feature added by: Rafael Belmonte (EagleScreen) Feature #308148, revision 1 Title: Add support for autoremove obsolete packages openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Rafael Belmonte (eaglescreen) Description: Zypper needs to can autoremove obsolete packages, for instance: Zypper installs package A, which depens on packages B and C. Zypper remove package A. Packages B and C keep installed when they are not longer necessary. Zypper should can autoremove packages B and C. This is already implemented in other popular package managers like apt-get in Debian. This is very useful to keep a clean Suse installation along the time. Packages may have a flag that indicates if they were automatically installed by other package, or they were installed manually by the user. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308148

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[openFATE 307523] Make hard disk encryption configurable
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

Feature added by: Stephan Kleine (bitshuffler) Feature #307523, revision 1 Title: Make hard disk encryption configurable openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Stephan Kleine (bitshuffler) Description: E.g. currently aes-cbc-essiv instead of aes-xts-plain is used because it is the upstream default although it has a number of disadvantages. That is perfectly fine as long as one could change the default. In short the following features are needed: 1) Possibility to override used options during installation (also should be setable via autoyast / kiwi so one doesn't have to change the setting on every new install). 2) Possibility to override used options during partition creation. 3) Possibility to set the used default options in some /etc file. IMHO a simple text field in the partitioner to override the used options would perfectly suffice. Then safe & restore that field via autoyast & kiwi and be done. The systemwide default should be stored in some /etc/sysconfig file. Related bug report: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=534644 -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307523

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[openFATE 307485] Xinerama in Yast
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

Feature added by: Roberto Gibertini (rgibertini) Feature #307485, revision 1 Title: Xinerama in Yast openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Roberto Gibertini (rgibertini) Description: YaST urgently needs an update to its monitor configuration utility. It has issues allowing resolutions set in X to be chosen for display, and it would be really, really, really nice if it had multi-monitor support. Expecially when working with proprietary drivers, the use of sax2 to configure multimonitor and xinerama is really difficult, this can be a great problem for starting users. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307485

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[openFATE 306579] make rpm licenses publically available
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 01 Dec '10

01 Dec '10

Feature added by: Juergen Weigert (jnweiger) Feature #306579, revision 1 Title: make rpm licenses publically available Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Juergen Weigert (jnweiger) Description: I'd like to offer a decoder for the rpm license strings for public. I suggest to use the website license.opernsuse.org to offer a) a searchable list of licenses showing * short name (as used in rpm packages) * Long descriptive Name * License Fulltext (by reference and or local copy) b) A decoder engine explaining in plain english what a given rpm license string means.Including dual, mix, aggregate qualification. c) a validator for rpm license strings. Use Case: customer could decipher syntax customer can access license fulltext. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306579

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[New: openFATE 308461] Use new KDE branding for patterns and repositories
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

Feature added by: Todd R (TheBlackCat) Feature #308461, revision 1 Title: Use new KDE branding for patterns and repositories openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Todd R (theblackcat) Description: KDE has recently release a substantial modification to how they describe their various software projects: http://dot.kde.org/2009/11/24/repositioning-kde-brand?page=1 I think openSUSE should change their KDE patterns and pattern names to reflect this new branding. Specifically, the core KDE libraries that are needed to run KDE software should be placed in a kde-platform pattern. Similarly, the plasma desktop (and the upcoming netbook and media center variants) should be placed in a kde-worskspaces pattern. Other KDE applications should be placed in a kde-applications pattern. Going further, core, extragear, community, and playground variants of these patterns would probably be provided. For example kde-workspaces-core would provide the workspaces components shipped with a KDE software compilation (the name for a new KDE release), kde-workspaces-extragear and kde-worskpaces-playground would provide plasma packages in the official extragear and playground svn repositories, while kde-worskpaces-community would provide plasma components from third-parties such as kde-look.org. Similarly, the KDE repositories should be renamed as well. So instead of KDE4.3, it should be KDESC4.3 or KSC4.3 (to reflect KDE software compilation). KDE is strongly discouraging the use of names like "KDE 4.4" and I think we should respect that request. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308461

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[New: openFATE 308506] Adjust Wording for KDE in Installation
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

Feature added by: Klaas Freitag (kfreitag) Feature #308506, revision 1 Title: Adjust Wording for KDE in Installation openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Klaas Freitag (kfreitag) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: The KDE Project provides sample wording for distributions for installation workflows, live media and such [1]. It is aligned with the KDE Branding initiative [2]. We need to make the openSUSE installation with YaST align to the suggestions. [1] http://community.kde.org/Promo/Distribution_Communication [2] http://community.kde.org/Promo/Branding Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: We do not want to break the upstream branding. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308506

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[openFATE 306761] Add CouchDB
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 16 Nov '10

16 Nov '10

Feature added by: Cornelius Schumacher (cschum) Feature #306761, revision 1 Title: Add CouchDB openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Cornelius Schumacher (cschum) Description: CouchDB is a distributed document-oriented database. It will be used by Ubuntu (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Specs/Karmic/IntegratingWithUbuntuOne) for all kind of synchronized storage use case scenarios. It would be great to have CouchDB on openSUSE as well, so it can plug into this network and make use of the application support which is developed. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306761

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[openFATE 307830] KRename 4 for openSUSE 11.2
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 16 Nov '10

16 Nov '10

Feature added by: Árpád Bíró (biroa) Feature #307830, revision 1 Title: KRename 4 for openSUSE 11.2 Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Árpád Bíró (biroa) Description: It would probably be a good idea to package the newly released KRename 4.0.0 (or the latest version if a new one comes out in time) for 11.2. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307830

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[openFATE 307798] Amarok 2.2 in opensuse 11.2
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 16 Nov '10

16 Nov '10

Feature added by: Peter Gumbrell (gumb) Feature #307798, revision 1 Title: Amarok 2.2 in opensuse 11.2 Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Peter Gumbrell (gumb) Description: This is a late appeal to devs in view of the current release roadmap. I believe the possibility of updating the Amarok version to 2.2 in the forthcoming OS 11.2 release was rejected some weeks back in a KDE meeting, though I don't know the technical reason. Perhaps it introduces too many breakages, but I wondered if there was any prospect of developers reversing this decision, bearing in mind that other apps like SeaMonkey, Virtualbox have still been updated only this week? Also, considering the decision was made to include currently very buggy alpha releases of KDE4 apps like Kaffeine and K3B, the new Amarok 2.2 RC1 just appeared today and it seems the final release will therefore be out well before OS 11.2, possibly leaving openSUSE behind with its version compared to others in the glut of distros releasing around the October / November period. There are various changes and bugfixes in the 2.2 release, but I think most notably the inclusion of CD support for playing and ripping is a major feature many would benefit from, negating the need for installation of separate media playing or ripping apps. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307798

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[New: openFATE 308368] add winbind idmap feature to "Windows Domain Membership" Yast applet
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 15 Nov '10

15 Nov '10

Feature added by: Di Pe (dipe) Feature #308368, revision 1 Title: add winbind idmap feature to "Windows Domain Membership" Yast applet openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Di Pe (dipe) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: The "Windows Domain Membership" Yast applet should have a feature that allows winbind to pull the uid/gid infomation from ActiveDirectory (attributes uidNumber and gidNumber) instead of using a local counter or TDB. Besides uid/gid the shell (loginShell) and the home directory (unixHomeDirectory) can also be pulled from Active Directory. A standard smb.conf for a Linux box that is joined to ActiveDirectory via winbind looks like this: [global] workgroup = XXXXX passdb backend = tdbsam printing = cups printcap name = cups printcap cache time = 750 cups options = raw map to guest = Bad User include = /etc/samba/dhcp.conf logon path = \\%L\profiles\.msprofile logon home = \\%L\%U\.9xprofile logon drive = P: usershare allow guests = No security = ADS idmap gid = 2000-4999 idmap uid = 2000-4999 realm = XXXXX.ORG template homedir = /home/%U template shell = /bin/bash winbind offline logon = yes winbind refresh tickets = yes if winbind has the ipmap feature enabled for Active Directory, smb.conf looks like this (tested configuration) [global] workgroup = XXXXX passdb backend = tdbsam printing = cups printcap name = cups printcap cache time = 750 cups options = raw map to guest = Bad User include = /etc/samba/dhcp.conf logon path = \\%L\profiles\.msprofile logon home = \\%L\%U\.9xprofile logon drive = P: usershare allow guests = No security = ADS idmap gid = 2000-4999 idmap uid = 2000-4999 realm = XXXXX.ORG template homedir = /home/%U template shell = /bin/bash winbind offline logon = yes winbind refresh tickets = yes ;log level = 3 winbind:5 idmap:5 winbind enum users = Yes winbind enum groups = Yes winbind nss info = rfc2307 winbind use default domain = yes ;idmap domains = XXXXX #not needed in latest samba idmap config XXXXX:cache time = 1800 idmap config XXXXX:range = 5000-65000 idmap config XXXXX:backend = ad idmap config XXXXX:schema_mode = rfc2307 idmap config XXXXX:default = yes schema_mode can either be 'sfu' or 'rfc2307'. rfc2307 is known by most administrators as "Windows 2003 R2" schema. In the future "Windows 2003 R2 (or newer)" should be the default schema. 'sfu' could be called "Legacy schema (sfu)" This proposal could even be the default setup since the unix LDAP attributes in Active Directory are ignored if they are not populated. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: This feature allows for centralized uid/gid management which is essential if hundreds or thousands of computers are used in an enterprise network, particularly if nfs and cifs are used on multiple file servers. (see http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/idmapper.html) http://www.likewise.com/ seems to offer an enhanced version of this feature which strongly indicates that there is a certain demand for it. more details: http://samba.org/~obnox/presentations/sambaXP-2009/sambaxp-2009-talk-obnox-… -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308368

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[openFATE 307898] Include asterisk in opensuse
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 15 Nov '10

15 Nov '10

Feature added by: Glenn Doig (doiggl) Feature #307898, revision 1 Title: Include asterisk in opensuse openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Glenn Doig (doiggl) Description: Include asterisk in opensuse http://www.asterisk.org/support/about and http://www.asterisk.org/support/features Features Asterisk-based telephony solutions offer a rich and flexible feature set. Asterisk offers both classical PBX functionality and advanced features, and interoperates with traditional standards-based telephony systems and Voice over IP systems. Asterisk offers the advanced features that are often associated with large, high end (and high cost) proprietary PBXs. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307898

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[openFATE 307911] How to avoid errors when burn ISO
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 15 Nov '10

15 Nov '10

Feature added by: stan stan (sta931) Feature #307911, revision 1 Title: How to avoid errors when burn ISO openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: stan stan (sta931) Description: The information may be useful for anyone who burns a big ISO dowloaded from the Internet,for example from open suse sites. There are many burning programs for ISO but if you are going to burn an ISO that weights more than 4 Gb almost all of those create a lot of problems.So,if I am newly in this I had to dissolve some problems and now would be glad to give some information if anyone is interested in Use Case: I was trying to create openSUSE 11.1 DVD An image was dowloaded by mobile modem -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307911

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[New: openFATE 308455] Easy way to refresh package database
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 15 Nov '10

15 Nov '10

Feature added by: Todd R (TheBlackCat) Feature #308455, revision 1 Title: Easy way to refresh package database openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Todd R (theblackcat) Description: Currently, if you want to force a refresh of your package database from within the software management module or online update module you needto go to the configuration menu, load the repository manager module, tell it to refresh, then close the repository manager module. Having an easy way to force a refresh of the software database from within the software management module would be much more convenient. It could easily go in the "File" menu without cluttering things much, there are currently only 4 items there as it is. I know that ideally the package manager would know when to refresh what, but it doesn't always so it would be very convenient if users had a quick way to force it to. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308455

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