July 2009 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[openFATE 306980] Reengineer the softwarerepo's / create a rolling distro
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Feature added by: Gunter Schelfhout (xgunterx) Feature #306980, revision 1 Title: Reengineer the softwarerepo's / create a rolling distro openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Gunter Schelfhout (xgunterx) Description: The present reposystem is too complicated for lots of users. There are simply too many of them, with possible conflicts and the priority system for these repo's is too cinfusing. This should be reengineered and looking to Debian and Ubuntu is not that unwise. There should be only a few repo's: - one with all the packages for the present released version (and the other previous version which are still maintained), - one with the updates, - one for all the packages which will be incuded in the next version of OpenSUSE, - one for all the packages which are in the testing fase AND all the packages which are out of testing and will be included in the next version. This mimics indeed the 'stable-testing-unstable' system of Debian and Ubuntu but it has indeed lots of benifits: - it is easy to understand, - a system as this creates 3 subversions between the release of two versions, meaning stable-testing-unstable is a omplete working version on it own, - users can decide EASY what they prefer: a stable environment with security updates, a more or less stable environment which is tracking the feature updates from the developers more and which are to be included in the next release and a testing version which is tracking the updates of the developers on the foot and might break their environment. - more people will choose the testing environment for wanting the bleeding edge packages which will result in more bugreports which will put the actual released version to a higher standard. - from here it is just a small step to create a rolling distro ... -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306980

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[openFATE 306977] allow the user select all desktop in desktop selection dialog
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Feature added by: Sergio Gabriel (Dahool) Feature #306977, revision 1 Title: allow the user select all desktop in desktop selection dialog openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Sergio Gabriel (dahool) Description: Replace option buttons in current desktop selection dialogs by checkboxes, so it is easier to install more than one desktop. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306977

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[openFATE 306773] Include Enomalism in openSUSE 11.2-3
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Feature added by: Mariano Iumiento (miumiento) Feature #306773, revision 1 Title: Include Enomalism in openSUSE 11.2-3 openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Mariano Iumiento (miumiento) Description: Please could you look at including Enomalism in the next release? Enomalism (http://www.enomalism.com) is an Open Source based Cloud Computing solution that allows the management of XEN and KVM based virtualization environments, VMware is supposed to be in roadmap, openVZ is still in testing. They are actually completing the development of the solution based on Fedora, CentOS and Red Hat (plus minor Ubuntu environments). I've tried to implement it on openSUSE 11.1 to verify how hard it would be to have it working, but there are various areas unknown to me that do not work well (python: the 2.6 version in openSUSE is too new for the software). Gartner: This is the product of the year for 2009. Gartner has made a Top 10 list of Cloud Computing solutions and 9 are SaaS (Google, Microsoft, etc.). Enomalism is, as Gartner said, the only Open Source solution and is the only one that is a software to create a private cloud rather than a service to access on the web. There is surely much to enhance, but it seems to be the only Open Source solution deserving attention (together with Eucalyptus). Cloud Computing is something that is going to be used a lot, and could also be used in future SLE releases. If it's needed for going ahead, I can try to be a tester, but would anyway need support because I'm not a developer. Hope to see news. Regards. Mariano Iumiento. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306773

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[openFATE 306768] Module in YaST2 for System Cleanup
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Feature added by: John Shand (jshand2008) Feature #306768, revision 1 Title: Module in YaST2 for System Cleanup openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: John Shand (jshand2008) Description: 1. This module would in effect, check, verify and remove orphaned rpm software from the computer along with removing all their entries in the software database. On verifying the above, it would warn you of any other dependencies requiring those rpms/file etc. This would be extremely useful as i install and test a lot of software everyday and i'm left with heaps of unused software afterwards. 2. This module would also check for and removes temp files from all user accounts. These sorts of files are performance snuffers in the end. 3. It would be good to have an option in the module to enable periodic scheduling to match the users needs. 4. This may or may not be a security issue, but would prefer it to be used by adminitrators only. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306768

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[openFATE 306749] Online Banking with New Zealand Banks
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Feature added by: John Shand (jshand2008) Feature #306749, revision 1 Title: Online Banking with New Zealand Banks openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: John Shand (jshand2008) Description: I am using a financial program called KMyMoney 0.9.3. it is a fantastic program, but i am used to actually doing my online banking with another program i used for real time transactions and update ie. the program would store my login information in an encrpted file and automatically login into my Kiwibank account from the program itself. this would be an awesome feature for any of the financial software available for opensuse. please do your best with this feature as it would make life a heck of a lot easier thanks John -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306749

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[openFATE 306592] PV Grub support in opensuse
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Feature added by: Josef Reidinger (jreidinger) Feature #306592, revision 1 Title: PV Grub support in opensuse openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Josef Reidinger (jreidinger) Description: To xen is added new feature that allows using own kernel in XEN guest. More info is here http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2008/08/28/xen-33-feature-pv-grub/ (http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2008/08/28/xen-33-feature-pv-grub/) . Some xen hosting services already contain this functionality http://www.linode.com/wiki/index.php/PV-GRUB (http://www.linode.com/wiki/index.php/PV-GRUB) .Discussion about this feature happen on yast-devel mailing list http://lists.opensuse.org/yast-devel/2009-06/msg00071.html (http://lists.opensuse.org/yast-devel/2009-06/msg00071.html) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306592

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[openFATE 306173] delayed insert for clipboard paste actions
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Feature added by: Ciaran Farrell (babelworx) Feature #306173, revision 1, last change by Title: delayed insert for clipboard paste actions ideas.opensuse.org: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Neutral Requested by: Ciaran Farrell (babelworx) Description: One thing which has annoyed me since SUSE 9 is the interaction between (etc) KDE and the (x)clipboard. After selecting a text in a browser, etc, one would expect to be able to use the middle mouse button, or possibly ctrl-v to paste the selected text into another application. This works sometimes. However, more often than not, the expected result does not come about - either a completely different text is pasted (e.g. an 'older' clipboard entry) or nothing at all. Pasting something which you don't mean to paste into an application such as IRC, IM or a web form could mean sending information which you never meant to send - particularly if the pasting action automatically triggers submission. Thus, maybe it would be possible (in the absence of clipboard being made work as expected - and yes, I have tried all the options such as sync etc) to have a delayed insert whereby there would be a timeout of, e.g. 3 seconds after pasting. The user would have 3 seconds to frantically hit "STOP!" before the text is automatically sent. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306173

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[openFATE 306945] Window Menu enhancement
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Feature added by: karthik bherin (karthikbp) Feature #306945, revision 1 Title: Window Menu enhancement openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: karthik bherin (karthikbp) Description: The Window Menu s, top left corner with application icon, of any window can have 2 more options: 1. Launch another. 2. List the names of all windows of the same app currently open, to switch to. The is based on the research that a user tends to open "new" instances of the same app or "switch" to other windows of the same app. As an example, from a Firefox window I would like a quick access to open new Firefox window or switch to another currently open Firefox window. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306945

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[openFATE 306639] Yast-squid support for helpers
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Feature added by: Raimo Schmidt (raimoschmidt) Feature #306639, revision 1 Title: Yast-squid support for helpers openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Raimo Schmidt (raimoschmidt) Description: It would be nice to make support for external helpers during configuring squid with yast-squid For example I need Squid authorization for LDAP users -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306639

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[openFATE 306638] Yast-mail + Dovecot
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Feature added by: Raimo Schmidt (raimoschmidt) Feature #306638, revision 1 Title: Yast-mail + Dovecot openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Raimo Schmidt (raimoschmidt) Description: WE need to add support for Dovecot IMAP Server in Yast2-mail. It will be really helpful -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306638

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