December 2009 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[openFate 305595] Show dependencies between packages in repo
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 20 Feb '10

20 Feb '10

Feature added by: Pavol Rusnak <prusnak(a)novell.com> Feature #305595, revision 1, last change by Title: Show dependencies between packages in repo Buildservice: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Pavol Rusnak <prusnak(a)novell.com> Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: * Show dependencies (Requires, BuildRequires) between packages in repository OBS should provide lists of required packages (runtime and build dependencies) - BuildRequires could be extracted from spec files - it is important to show also reverse dependencies (eg. which packages depend on the package I'm maintaining) - Requires are much harder (will probably need also symbol resolution), but not so desperately needed as BuildRequires -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305595

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[openFATE 305937] Delete Request Mechanism
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 19 Feb '10

19 Feb '10

Feature added by: Adrian Schröter (adrianSuSE) Feature #305937, revision 1, last change by Title: Delete Request Mechanism Buildservice: Evaluation Priority Requester: Mandatory Projectmanager: Mandatory Requested by: Adrian Schröter (adriansuse) Description: As part of our PDB migration, we need a mechanism to request a package removal in a project, where no write access exists. Klaas, can you make a proposal how a package (and project ?) removal can look alike ? -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305937

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[New: openFATE 308408] Add lightscibe applications to installation DVD or repo
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 17 Feb '10

17 Feb '10

Feature added by: Mindaugas Baranauskas (embar-) Feature #308408, revision 1 Title: Add lightscibe applications to installation DVD or repo openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Mindaugas Baranauskas (embar-) Description: Add lightscibe applications to installation DVD or repo, for example http://www.lacie.com/download/drivers/4L-1.0-r6.i586.rpm and drivers from http://lightscribe.com/downloadSection/linux/index.aspx -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308408

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[New: openFATE 308367] Rename YaST2 to YaST
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 14 Feb '10

14 Feb '10

Feature added by: Lars Müller (lmuelle) Feature #308367, revision 1 Title: Rename YaST2 to YaST openSUSE-11.3: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Lars Müller (lmuelle) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: YaST1 is gone for a long time but we still use everywhere YaST2. I'm not suggesting to drop the yast2 cmd. My intention is to only use the word "YaST" in the documentation (in the app and printed) and in the screenshots. See also http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=555659 Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Make the wording easier. Make IT Work As One. ;) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308367

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[openFATE 307391] yast2-control-center-qt4 move back to qt "appereance"
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 14 Feb '10

14 Feb '10

Feature added by: andrea florio (anubisg1) Feature #307391, revision 1 Title: yast2-control-center-qt4 move back to qt "appereance" openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: andrea florio (anubisg1) Description: Finally yast developers are moving control-center to qt4, but installing the version provided in kde:kde4:factory:desktop i saw that really bad looking, It actually lookss the gnome version written in qt4, with that i mean that it appears like a single long list of yast modules. That list is too long and confuse the user, in the same way, selecting groups on right side, produce nothing useful because the modules available on that groups are still hidden (only the first one is on the bottom of the page). i think developers should maintain qt3 layout where you see only modules available on that group and possibly in 2 or more columns -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307391

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[openFATE 306990] pkgconfig automatic provides / requires
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Feb '10

12 Feb '10

Feature added by: Andrew Jorgensen (ajorgensen) Feature #306990, revision 1 Title: pkgconfig automatic provides / requires openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Andrew Jorgensen (ajorgensen) Description: Integrate macros for automatically determining RPM provides / requires based on pkgconfig for -devel packages. This would consequently automatically determine the dependency chains between -devel packages that use pkgconfig. It would also allow packagers to use the pkgconfig(pkg) string instead of the specific -devel package name. This would make packaging easier both for cross-distro spec files and because when configure complains that a pkgconfig package is missing the packager can immediately add the BuildRequires rather than searching to determine which package contains that .pc file. Fedora and Mandriva both already have this feature. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306990

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[New: openFATE 308276] new startx support dbus and policykit
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Feb '10

12 Feb '10

Feature added by: Chodorenko Michail (chodorenko) Feature #308276, revision 1 Title: new startx support dbus and policykit openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Chodorenko Michail (chodorenko) Description: make script (or rewrite exist startx) what can start user X session from console, aka startx but fullfuntionaly(with dbus, policykit, etc...) in now moment startx not support this features -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308276

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[New: openFATE 308609] solve performance problem on 3d application on plasma or compiz
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Feb '10

12 Feb '10

Feature added by: cristian díaz (moldavio) Feature #308609, revision 1 Title: solve performance problem on 3d application on plasma or compiz openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: cristian díaz (moldavio) Description: solve performance problem on 3d application on plasma or compiz enable -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308609

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[openFATE 307726] libzypp/Zypper/YaST -> direct access to build service
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Feb '10

12 Feb '10

Feature added by: Johannes Obermayr (jobermayr) Feature #307726, revision 1 Title: libzypp/Zypper/YaST -> direct access to build service Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Johannes Obermayr (jobermayr) Description: I have often the problem that my built packages are not published in my home: directory on http://download.opensuse.org/home:/ (or only many hours later ...) So I think it would be a nice feature if libzypp, Zypper and YaST can handle projects/subprojects located on https://api.opensuse.org/build/... as repositories. Maybe it is a duplicate of #306578 or related to it. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307726

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[openFATE 306956] Set up feature for wireless card on desktop
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 11 Feb '10

11 Feb '10

Feature added by: Roman Bysh (Romanator) Feature #306956, revision 1 Title: Set up feature for wireless card on desktop openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Roman Bysh (romanator) Description: It would be nice to add a set up feature for the wirless card on the desktop after the installation has finished. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306956

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[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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[openFATE 307474] Show link-tooltip also in stage succeeded with info from build-compare
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jan '10

22 Jan '10

Feature added by: Jan-Simon Möller (dl9pf) Feature #307474, revision 1 Title: Show link-tooltip also in stage succeeded with info from build-compare Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Jan-Simon Möller (dl9pf) Description: Use-Case: If a package is in status "Finished" we already display e.g. "new build"/"no change" info. We should show the same data also in state succeeded when hovering the link. It helps on large projects to keep easily track on unchanged build. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307474

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[openFATE 307841] distributed computing for build service
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jan '10

22 Jan '10

Feature added by: Adam Mizerski (etamPL) Feature #307841, revision 1 Title: distributed computing for build service Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Adam Mizerski (etampl) Description: Facts: Build service is overloaded. Now there is about 5000 packages in i586 waiting queue and the same in x86_64. Few days ago it was 3000, so it's growing. My idea: Distributed packaging using BOINC (http://boinc.berkeley.edu) platform. I think that for security reasons big and important packages (like kernel) should be build on OBS build hosts, but everything else can be distributed. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307841

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[openFATE 307840] add aggregate next to link package in web client
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jan '10

22 Jan '10

Feature added by: Adam Mizerski (etamPL) Feature #307840, revision 1 Title: add aggregate next to link package in web client Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Adam Mizerski (etampl) Description: Creating aggregations, where features of linking (like project patches) are not needed, will unburden build hosts. If there is no option in web client to create them, beginners will create links and create unneeded load of packages to compile. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307840

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[openFATE 307916] osc plugin for writing patchinfos
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jan '10

22 Jan '10

Feature added by: Dirk Mueller (dirkmueller) Feature #307916, revision 1 Title: osc plugin for writing patchinfos Buildservice: New Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Dirk Mueller (dirkmueller) Description: We need an externally accessible way to write a patchinfo and submit it as part of an update to Update:Test The ideal implementation would be a osc plugin that provides functionality similar to the internally available tool edit_patchinfo. It should be able to use the date provided by the build service. in its first iteration, it should not support the patchinfo validation steps that the internal tool does. Ideally it should write a "_patchinfo" file that is added to the current osc package working copy and can be submitted as part of osc submitrequest for an update. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307916

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[openFATE 308074] Provide way to do a local build and upload the binaries to the repository
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jan '10

22 Jan '10

Feature added by: Sankar P (psankar) Feature #308074, revision 1 Title: Provide way to do a local build and upload the binaries to the repository Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Sankar P (psankar) Description: Most of my time in build service is spent in seeing "Scheduled" There are always 1000s of packages waiting in queue for i586 and x86_64. I have a pretty powerful machine and would like to do my own local build and upload the binaries to the project repository. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308074

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