December 2009 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[openFate 305706] Facebook chat/Pidgin Integration
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

Feature added by: Kevin Dupuy (kdupuy9) Feature #305706, revision 1, last change by Title: Facebook chat/Pidgin Integration openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Kevin Dupuy (kdupuy9) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Facebook is currently the most popular social networking site, and it's chat functionality is being used as an IM client for many people. With pidgin-facebookchat (http://code.google.com/p/pidgin-facebookchat/) , Pidgin seamlessly integrates Facebook friends and chats as it would any other IM service. The plugin is already there, and licensed under the GPLv3 (see website above). -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305706

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[openFATE 307774] software repositories: provide groups
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

Feature added by: Maciej Pilichowski (truemacias) Feature #307774, revision 1 Title: software repositories: provide groups openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Maciej Pilichowski (truemacias) Description: Original report: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=475978 It would ease management of the repos. I could create KDE group, Gnome group, and enable/disable group, instead of doing the same to several repos at once. It could work like a macro: * disable KDE --> disable all repos that are in KDE group * enable KDE --> enable all repos that are in KDE group Don't confuse this with packages groups! -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307774

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[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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[New: openFATE 308604] native multitouch x11 support
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

Feature added by: cristian díaz (moldavio) Feature #308604, revision 1 Title: native multitouch x11 support openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: cristian díaz (moldavio) Description: native multitouch x11 support -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308604

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[New: openFATE 308457] New notification theme
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

Feature added by: Vincent Untz (vuntz) Feature #308457, revision 1 Title: New notification theme openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Vincent Untz (vuntz) Description: We use a theme for notifications that is a patched upstream theme. But it has some issues, unfortunately (because of its fixed width, some text is cut). And it doesn't look that good. It's probably worth investing some time at looking at the themes other distros are using (like Fedora), and see if this can be moved upstream, so we can use it. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308457

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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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[openFATE 306635] Gnome main menu should have openSUSE logo, not generic computer
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

Feature added by: Drew Kwashnak (dragonbite) Feature #306635, revision 1 Title: Gnome main menu should have openSUSE logo, not generic computer openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Neutral openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Neutral Requested by: Drew Kwashnak (dragonbite) Description: The Gnome version of openSUSE should have the openSUSE logo either squared (like the head used in KDE) or a horizontile button instead of the generic computer icon. As unimportant as it seems, that is a marketing aspect that should not be overlooked. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306635

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[New: openFATE 308281] Empathy as default IM client
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 04 Jun '10

04 Jun '10

Feature added by: Udaya Kumar (ukumars) Feature #308281, revision 1 Title: Empathy as default IM client openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Udaya Kumar (ukumars) Description: Empathy has good support for voice chat, which happens to be missing in Linux for long time. Have tried it on ubuntu and have liked it. I like it to be part of openSUSE release as default IM client. I don't like to switch to another Linux flavor, as openSUSE is more comfortable to use and simpler to manage. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308281

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[openFATE 307899] Switch from beagle to tracker
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 03 Jun '10

03 Jun '10

Feature added by: Vincent Untz (vuntz) Feature #307899, revision 1 Title: Switch from beagle to tracker openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Vincent Untz (vuntz) Description: Beagle is going to be unmaintained, and tracker is seeing quite some development (and is even proposed for inclusion in GNOME), so I think we should switch to tracker for 11.3. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dashboard-hackers/2009-September/msg00005.ht… -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307899

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[openFATE 305905] Package and Project Marking
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

Feature added by: Will Stephenson (wstephenson) Feature #305905, revision 1, last change by Title: Package and Project Marking Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Will Stephenson (wstephenson) Description: * Add the ability to have a 'status update' on packages AND projects * * status updates are not package changelogs; logs refer to changes to the contents of the package, status updates relate to ongoing work on the packages * * 1:N relationship, status updates are timestamped. Like facebook or $microblogging service. * show current status on checkout or list * Add a command to read all the status updates on a package. Examples: 1) Jack is updating Commodore:Amiga:Workbench:Factory to 23.2 and disables publish on the whole project before the actual release date with the status message '20090224 - disabled publish pending 23.2 release' 2) Jill is triaging breakages in Commodore:Amiga:Workbench:Factory and marks packages without checking them out before assigning work to team members Denise and Paula, with "osc mark -m 'broken by input.device changes' Commodore:Amiga:Workbench:Factory Preferences" 3) Paula is fixing a breakage in Commodore:Amiga:Workbench:Factory Preferences and locks (see #305899) the package with status update using "osc co -l -m '20090225 - fixing build failure due to input.device changes' Commodore:Amiga:Workbench:Factory Preferences" -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305905

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[New: openFATE 308282] iPod touch/iPhone access using iFuse
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

Feature added by: Udaya Kumar (ukumars) Feature #308282, revision 1 Title: iPod touch/iPhone access using iFuse openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Udaya Kumar (ukumars) Description: Wondering if iFuse can be added as a default support to manage iPod/iPhone, as well, perhaps Banshee could be replaced with Rhythmbox as a default media manager. Alternatively, Banshee could be enhanced to support iPod Touch/iPhone. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308282

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[openFATE 307370] YaST2-DNS + Microsoft Zones Support
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 28 May '10

28 May '10

Feature added by: Raimo Schmidt (raimoschmidt) Feature #307370, revision 1 Title: YaST2-DNS + Microsoft Zones Support Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Raimo Schmidt (raimoschmidt) Description: It's mandatory when deploying openLDAP as Primary Domain Controller (PDC) for MS Windows domain -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307370

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[New: openFATE 308278] openSUSE DomU PV/PVGRUB support for XEN and Citrix XenServer
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 28 May '10

28 May '10

Feature added by: Matt Sealey (mwsealey) Feature #308278, revision 1 Title: openSUSE DomU PV/PVGRUB support for XEN and Citrix XenServer openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Matt Sealey (mwsealey) Description: Running Citrix XenServer or Xen Dom0 from openSUSE 11.2 is all well and good but the support for the kernel in DomU is not that great; Citrix for example provide a kernel and DVD for Debian specifically designed for DomU operation, and there are templates for installing Debian Lenny using PV-GRUB. As far as I can see this is simply not implemented in openSUSE so the support for the client Linux OS is really not as great as it could be. Is there any plan for support for this? There should be! Xen is not just about running a system capable of virtualization but running a system inside the virtualization... -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308278

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[New: openFATE 308601] Drop glib/gtk/gnome 1.x stack
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 23 May '10

23 May '10

Feature added by: Vincent Untz (vuntz) Feature #308601, revision 1 Title: Drop glib/gtk/gnome 1.x stack openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Vincent Untz (vuntz) Description: We still ship the glib/gtk/gnome 1.x stack, but it's so old that really nothing maintained should still use it. And it's not clear whether we have a good security maintenance for this stack... So let's try to remove this for 11.3. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308601

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[openFATE 307506] Improve Factory check-in workflow
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 20 May '10

20 May '10

Feature added by: Adrian Schröter (adrianSuSE) Feature #307506, revision 1 Title: Improve Factory check-in workflow Buildservice: Evaluation Priority Requester: Important Projectmanager: Important Requested by: Stephan Kulow (coolo) Description: We have currently the problem that we do not want to do permanent checkins into Factory project to allow depending packages finish building. But on the other hand, we want to do the review at any point of time and push the new sources into the project at once. We had a discussion about this and this was the results: * Create a concept for requests states, reflecting the currently internal states happen during checkin. Reflecting legal and review states. (AI: Rudi) * Add a functionality to add comments to requests without changing the state. (AI: Klaas/Adrian create xml concept) * Offer a clean server side repository cloning functionality (AI: mls) * osc shall call precheckin.sh on checkin and build (AI: adrian) * internal check_if_valid_source_dir checks must become public (AI: adrian/ro/lrupp) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307506

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[openFATE 307742] Allow adding remote src.rpm via webclient instead of uploading files one by one
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 19 May '10

19 May '10

Feature added by: Pavol Rusnak (prusnak) Feature #307742, revision 1 Title: Allow adding remote src.rpm via webclient instead of uploading files one by one Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Pavol Rusnak (prusnak) Description: Usecase: When one wants to build chromium in OBS. He has to download src.rpm from http://spot.fedorapeople.org/chromium/F12/chromium-4.0.208.0-0.1.20090910sv… which is 450MB, unpack it and upload via osc. It would be much easier if adding remote file via webclient accepted also src.rpm files. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307742

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[New: openFATE 308268] Allow to easy check what sources was unmodified -show cheksum and url of tarball
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 19 May '10

19 May '10

Feature added by: Alex Savin (alexqwesa) Feature #308268, revision 1 Title: Allow to easy check what sources was unmodified -show cheksum and url of tarball Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Alex Savin (alexqwesa) Description: Allow to easy check what source tarball was not modified: 1) add field for url to official project download page (url where packager got source) 2) show checksum for tarball generated by Buildservice Often source tarball already have checksum (in project download page or in VCS(version control systems), and all what needed to check is sources modified: 1) see checksum in Buildservice 2) see checksum in official project download page, or in VCS, or etc... 3) just compare it)) This is important, because some people want to use additional software (for example: from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/ repos), but don't trust these packagers -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308268

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