Feature added by: Arvin Schnell <aschnell(a)novell.com>
Feature #305144, revision 1, last change by
Title: [Feature-request] Yast as a Linux learning tool
openSUSE-11.1: New
Priority
Requester: Desirable
Requested by: Alexey Eremenko <al4321(a)gmail.com>
Partner organization: openSUSE.org
Description:
Hi All !
I Have very good new idea: converting Yast into a Linux learning tool.
This is very simple to achieve: Yast must show the commands it executes and files it modifies, in a nice GUI dialog.
It will allow all kinds of Linux users understand how things really work. Enable learn new things or remind how old-but-forgotten things work for seasoned people.
Great, isn't it ?
P.S. Jay Vollmer recommends, that among the commands that Yast shows as it executing, it should also recommend "man pages" for the relevant underlying commands.
-- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov", 29.jul.2008.
Discussion:
#1: Alexey Eremenko <al4321(a)gmail.com> (2008-07-29 12:09:11)
Rajko M. wrote:
If one wants to see what is gong on in background, than look at logs in realtime. There is console (Konsole) and command tail. Run as root:
tail -f /var/log/YaST2/y2log
and then start YaST and play with.
-- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov", 29.jul.2008.
#2: Jerry Houston <jerry.houston(a)comcast.net> (2008-07-29 15:41:34)
Sounds like a great way for new users to learn more about what's under the hood. Or, what's under the bonnet, for the Brits.
#3: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis(a)novell.com> (2008-07-31 07:11:21)
Moving to maintainers to decide.
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Feature added by: Adrian Schröter (adrianSuSE)
Feature #305931, revision 1, last change by
Title: Temporary Build Support (aka mbuild)
Buildservice: Evaluation
Priority
Requester: Important
Projectmanager: Important
Requested by: Adrian Schröter (adriansuse)
Description:
A temporary build support is wanted to obsolete what we currently have internal as mbuild. A temporary Build should fullfill the following requirements:
* Upload of local sources without the need to create a project or package namespace manually.
* Build as part of an existing project, without the need to have write access there and without to modify it.
* Build results should be stored and downloadable for X time. Afterwards they need to get removed automatically.
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Feature added by: Arvin Schnell (aschnell)
Feature #305737, revision 1, last change by
Title: remove warning of missing swap from expert partitioner
openSUSE-11.2: New
Priority
Requester: Desirable
Requested by: Arvin Schnell (aschnell)
Partner organization: openSUSE.org
Description:
There are requests to remove the warning about a missing swap device from the expert partitioner for systems with only SSDs. I want to go one step further and remove the warning altogether since RAM has increased so much in the past.
Relations:
- proposal for SSD (novell/bugzilla/id: 467874)
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467874
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Feature added by: Joop Boonen (worldcitizen)
Feature #305929, revision 1, last change by
Title: Startup in X even when the xorg.conf fails
openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed
Priority
Requester: Important
openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed
Priority
Requester: Important
Requested by: Joop Boonen (worldcitizen)
Description:
As there are more and more new users within openSuSE with less knowledge. I was thinking it's an option to boot in Vesa when the original xorg.conf fails. Than the user is still able to fix the problem via a GUI i.e. YaST and SAX.
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Feature added by: Vincent Untz <vuntz(a)novell.com>
Feature #305640, revision 1, last change by
Title: Replace gnomesu by something more modern
openSUSE-11.2: New
Priority
Requester: Important
Requested by: Vincent Untz (vuntz)
Partner organization: openSUSE.org
Description:
gnomesu is kind of obsolete and unmaintained.
In the world of PolicyKit, we could use the new PolicyKit-aware gksu, or the adminkit stuff done by Rodrigo.
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Feature added by: Stephan Binner <stbinner(a)novell.com>
Feature #305548, revision 1, last change by
Title: YaST-Qt: More informative "Installation Summary"
openSUSE-11.2: New
Priority
Requester: Desirable
Requested by: Stephan Binner <stbinner(a)novell.com>
Partner organization: openSUSE.org
Description:
The YaST Qt package manager should provide as much information in the "Installation Summary" view as zypper, esp the overall download size to expect and how much disk space will be freed/used after performing the operation.
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Feature added by: Stephan Binner (Beineri)
Feature #306282, revision 1, last change by
Title: Restricted Guest Account
openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed
Priority
Requester: Desirable
Requested by: Stephan Binner (beineri)
Description:
openSUSE should support a "Guest" account with a temporary home directory and restricted permissions (via AppArmor, like not being able to start application with console privileges, look into home directories as "other" user etc.). An authenticated user has to enable/start this user account. This could be either implemented with a by default existing but inactivated user account (like Windows) or temporary created user account via login manager/session switch applet (like Ubuntu, https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/gdm-guest-login).
Use Case:
Allow to lend your laptop to someone else for quick email check, surfing or playing music at a party.
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Feature added by: Michael Loeffler <michl(a)novell.com>
Feature #305305, revision 1, last change by
Title: 1-click uninstall
openSUSE-11.2: Evaluation
Priority
Requester: Important
Requested by: Michael Loeffler <michl(a)novell.com>
Partner organization: openSUSE.org
Description:
An easy way to remove Software! For example: you installed an application with "1-click install" (which will install all the packages that you need), there should be an easy way (also with 1 click) to remove what you have installed with that 1-click operation... in another words: an "1-click Uninstall" to remove installed software (dependencies and packages included).
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Feature added by: Martin Schlander (cb400f)
Feature #305664, revision 1, last change by
Title: Server CD
openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed
Priority
Requester: Desirable
Requested by: Martin Schlander (cb400f)
Description:
Providing an official openSUSE server cd - with some often used server software - and perhaps a lightweight window manager like icewm or similar - would be a great thing for a number of reasons. - openSUSE is generally considered a desktop centric distribution, providing a server cd would do a heck of a lot to highligt the excellent (home-)server qualities of openSUSE. - The few people that realize that the openSUSE DVD/netinstall actually offers text mode/server installation, are often discouraged by needing to download a full DVD, or do troublesome and slow http/ftp installation. - Server users are generally more technical people, it would be beneficial to attract more of these to the openSUSE project. - More people using openSUSE on home servers would likely have spill-over effects on SLES sales. - An openSUSE server cd, would be an excellent response to Ubuntu server edition and Microsoft Home Server.
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