Feature added by: Jakub Steiner <jimmac(a)novell.com>
Feature #305587, revision 1, last change by
Title: Yast template for theming
openSUSE-11.2: New
Priority
Requester: Important
Requested by: Jim McEldowney <jimmac(a)erie.net>
Partner organization: openSUSE.org
Description:
To be able to skin the Yast installer properly, I would welcome the existence of a YCP template to include all of the widgets included in the actual installer.
Business case (Partner benefit):
openSUSE.org: Without such a testbed it's extremely hard and error prone to create new styling. In some cases it's impossible to see the implications of a style change until after it has been submitted to build and new distribution snapshot released.
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openSUSE Feature:
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Feature added by: Michal Vyskocil (mvyskocil)
Feature #305876, revision 1, last change by
Title: Packages usage statistics
openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed
Priority
Requester: Important
openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed
Priority
Requester: Important
Requested by: Michal Vyskocil (mvyskocil)
Description:
Moved from Brainstorming_Prague (http://en.opensuse.org/BrainStorming_Prague#We_don.27t_know_which_packages_…) Problem: We don't know which packages users really use/have installed We cannot focus our interest on really important packages for our end-users, because we don't know which are important. Those popularity statistics could help us in many ways - for example bug priority of popular package should be higher, or we can decide move the package from/to Factory, ... Debian has a http://popcon.debian.org/ and popularity-contest package, so we should reuse an existing code. The pupularity-contest executable is a simple Perl script, which should be ported to rpm (replacing of dpkg calls by rpm alternative should be enough). Those package usage statistics could be integrated into Software Portal and to YaST comparing relative results for individual packages between openSUSE and Debian can give us a valuable information about the community structure (how many users use development tools etc.)
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openSUSE Feature:
https://features.opensuse.org/305876
Feature added by: Rajko Matovic (rajko_m)
Feature #305723, revision 1, last change by
Title: Allow to set the owner of a partition
openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed
Priority
Requester: Important
Requested by: Rajko Matovic (rajko_m)
Partner organization: openSUSE.org
Description:
If a user buys a new external harddrive and partitions it via YaST he will not be able to write on it, since the filesystem is owned by root. A normal user would need to know about how to use konsole and which command to use in order to change the owner. It would be a lot easier, if the user could change the owner within the partitioning module. Of course this should not be possible for system-partitions such as / and /usr etc, yet /windows and /media, as well as /home/xyz/ should be fine. The problem is not trivial as it is not enough to change fstab. See: See: http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#unprivileged
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openSUSE Feature:
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Feature added by: Arvin Schnell (aschnell(a)novell.com)
Feature #305075, revision 1
Title: Allow to set the owner of a partition
openSUSE-11.1: New
Priority
Requester: Desirable
Requested by: Sven Burmeister (sven.burmeister(a)gmx.net)
Partner organization: openSUSE.org
Description:
If a user buys a new external harddrive and partitions it via YaST he will not be able to write on it, since the filesystem is owned by root. A normal user would need to know about how to use konsole and which command to use in order to change the owner.
It would be a lot easier, if the user could change the owner within the partitioning module. Of course this should not be possible for system-partitions such as / and /usr etc, yet /windows and /media, as well as /home/xyz/ should be fine.
Discussion:
#1: Arvin Schnell(aschnell(a)novell.com) (2008-07-15 08:32:00)
Do you want to set gui and uid in /etc/fstab?
#2: Sven Burmeister(sven.burmeister(a)gmx.net) (2008-07-15 08:56:26)
I'm not sure which is the best approach. Either the user could do something that replaces "chown user:group ." on the new partition or some predefined gui/uid to select from, because the normal user has no idea about those and the numbers that go with them.
The goal is that a user that knows the root password can not only partition a new harddrive via GUI but also make it accessible (rw) to users without having to know anything about fstab-syntax and options.
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openSUSE Feature:
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Feature added by: Klaas Freitag (kfreitag)
Feature #305672, revision 1, last change by
Title: openFATE - Show References
Requested by: Klaas Freitag (kfreitag)
Description:
openFATE should comfortably display and handle external references like:
* related bug numbers
* other features (dupes, related)
* wiki pages into the opensuse wiki
* sourcecode, ie. svn path
People should be able to edit references as well.
Wiki page and sourcecode references are new and must be added.
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openSUSE Feature:
https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305672
Feature added by: Helmut Schaa (hschaa)
Feature #305768, revision 1, last change by
Title: Use open source firmware for b43
openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed
Priority
Requester: Desirable
Requested by: Helmut Schaa (hschaa)
Partner organization: openSUSE.org
Description:
Currently openSUSE does not ship the firmware for broadcom devices due to legal issues. Only a script /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware is provided which is not easy to find for new users. However an open source firmware for these devices are available now at [1] and would allow to be shipped with openSUSE. Of course this firmware needs some testing but it would be quite nice to not depend anymore on the proprietary firmware. [1] http://www.ing.unibs.it/openfwwf/
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openSUSE Feature:
https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305768
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.
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openSUSE Feature:
https://features.opensuse.org/305923
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.
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openSUSE Feature:
https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305695
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.
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openSUSE Feature:
https://features.opensuse.org/306175