July 2009 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[openFate 305587] Yast template for theming
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 01 Apr '11

01 Apr '11

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. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305587

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[openFATE 305876] Packages usage statistics
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 31 Mar '11

31 Mar '11

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.) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305876

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[openFate 305723] Allow to set the owner of a partition
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

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 -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305723

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[openFate 305075] Allow to set the owner of a partition
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

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. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305075

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[openFATE 306385] Official realtime kernel
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

Feature added by: Michal Smrž (ilfirin) Feature #306385, revision 1, last change by Title: Official realtime kernel openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Michal Smrž (ilfirin) Description: There is no official kernel-rt in main repository (and main update). Realtime kernel is very important for audio workers and those, who need very fast responses. There are third party packages, but official support for realtime kernel would be much better. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306385

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[openFATE 306924] Software Store like AppStore/Android Market
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 25 Feb '11

25 Feb '11

Feature added by: Raúl García (bgta) Feature #306924, revision 1 Title: Software Store like AppStore/Android Market openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Raúl García (bgta) Description: The idea is to create an online store like AppStore or Android Market using One Click Install. The currents search system is offuscated. By example, if you try to search "Firefox" in the current search system, you get more than one result, and Mozilla Firefox isn't the first. I think in some site like http://www.pbidir.com/ Thanks for your time and sorry for my bad english :) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306924

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[openFATE 306347] Expanded View in Web Interface
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 18 Feb '11

18 Feb '11

Feature added by: Stephan Binner (Beineri) Feature #306347, revision 1, last change by Title: Expanded View in Web Interface Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Stephan Binner (beineri) Description: The Build Service web interface should allow to switch to an expanded view (unlayered, with package patches applied) as alternate view. This would ease debugging of other people build problems and is also nicer for upstream/anonymous users (Fate#306192) without having to checkout via osc for expanded version. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306347

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[openFATE 306381] Read Only mode for anonymous users in Web Client
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 18 Feb '11

18 Feb '11

Feature added by: Adrian Schröter (adrianSuSE) Feature #306381, revision 1, last change by Title: Read Only mode for anonymous users in Web Client Buildservice: Evaluation Priority Requester: Important Projectmanager: Important Requested by: Adrian Schröter (adriansuse) Description: The OBS Web Client shall offer a read only mode for not loged in users. Goals: * The current projects and packages shall become browseable * Search engines shall be able to index our content * Our sources, including the patches should be accessable. * Log files shall be accessable for developers without login. What should not be accessable: Of course no write operations and everything which is causing too much load on our servers. The system must be still usable for packagers as higher goal. This means: * No build result downloads via api * No monitor pages due to the cause load ? -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306381

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[openFate 305672] openFATE - Show References
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 17 Feb '11

17 Feb '11

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. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305672

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[openFate 305768] Use open source firmware for b43
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 03 Feb '11

03 Feb '11

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/ -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305768

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