July 2009 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[openFATE 306328] Yast Help Button Documentation Needs Specific Application/Srvice Overview in most all Yast Services
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Feature added by: Karl Eichwalder (keichwa) Feature #306328, revision 1, last change by Title: Yast Help Button Documentation Needs Specific Application/Srvice Overview in most all Yast Services openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Scott Couston (zczc2311) Description: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009022800 SUSE/3.0.7-1.1.6 Firefox/3.0.7 I will use the help button in Yast>Firewall>Interface to provide the consent of why I fell we need service overview for most each Yast Service. The assumption is that everyone uses a Linux PC to either provide NAT or a point where 1 PC has the only direct WAN interface as well as a second LAN Interface. In some networks, normally only those that are domain based have a dedicated PC to distribute comms and this is the only PC that has 1 network card in the External Zone, for example, and has a second Network Card in the Internal one which allocates either real IP Distribution to the LAN or NAT'ed 192.168.... /24 Black Hole Private IP's For example the contact sensitive help that is presented on the Interface line is * ** nterfaces Here, assign your network devices into firewall zones by selecting the device in the table and clicking Change. Enter special strings, like any, using Custom. You can also enter interfaces not yet configured here. If you need masquerading, the string any is not allowed. Every network device should be assigned to a firewall zone. Network traffic through any unassigned interface is blocked. * ** I think we need a Service Overview on the startup Help Button contact and subsequent link references to that from down wind services of the applications further help messages. Here at the Service Overview Help we need the current text and reference to Service Overview to explain situations where a PC is dedicated to sit between the LAN (Internal Zone) and the WAN (External Zone) and is configured to allocate either Many Public IP's to the LAN or NATed Black Hole IPs to the LAN. I am not sure what is happening outside of my home country Australia as I have not been away for 3 years, however Unless a Business Wants to maintain their own Domain and maintain their own Web Server the above is a mute point. Almost all Modem Hardware shipped automatically for no cost from all their DSL providers will contain Ethernet and WIFI access, with routed comms using NAT, and most all support double-directional SPI Firewalls, NAT, and complete routing capabilities in one box. In the case of a small business or a Network Home user, if asked, I will replace their old DSL Modem to at very least the above services. .AU in Large Homes and Small Business are dumping their software firewalls, particularly those which are Windoze users as they really need an unbelievable amount of comms knowledge to just run their major software Firewalls. We are very fortunate not to be in a disaster of needing an advanced degree in comms to use our suse firewalls - however the point remains about the vehicle responsible for connection of multiple PC to the Net. Just about every small Business owner farms out the WEB Server duties to a purpose facility such as www.dnsexit.com or many similar services and as such never have their Linux PC distributing the comms and web Services. I dont know if we have the ability to present any graphics in YAST help, however I think each and every YaSt Service should have an Application Overview and a graphic diagram if possible when the Help Button is selected. There are a great number of Yast Services that only Businesses with a T-n Internet connection will use PC hardware to supply downwards TCP comms IP's, web Services etc etc etc. Perhaps if we offer help in a System Over View from the Help Button of the first stage of most all Yast Services, and link Help Specific information to Help on further use of a Yast Service, we might find users out there who really do not know what enormous services power they have if they can read each Yast Application's Short but accurate Service Overview. Your thoughts? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Enhancement Request in Overview aimed at 11.2 2. 3. Actual Results: Enhancement Request in Overview aimed at 11.2 Expected Results: Enhancement Request in Overview aimed at 11.2 Relations: - Yast Help Button Documentation Needs Specific Application/Srvice Overview in most all Yast Services (novell/bugzilla/id: 491208) https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=491208 -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306328

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[openFATE 305784] Wireless light blinks all the time
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Feature added by: Robert Lewis (rll123) Feature #305784, revision 1, last change by Title: Wireless light blinks all the time openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Robert Lewis (rll123) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: The LED blinking is very distracting and needs to be controlable. The LED blinks when traffic goes through the wireless card. However you can configure the LED behavior in /sys/class/net/wlanX/device/leds. For example something like echo none > /sys/class/net/wlanX/device/leds/*TX/trigger echo none > /sys/class/net/wlanX/device/leds/*RX/trigger echo none > /sys/class/net/wlanX/device/leds/*assoc/trigger should deactivate the blinking while traffic is received or transmitted. Just play with the LED triggers to get the desired behavior. This is a work around for a few people not afraid to muck with such things but a GUI user interface to turn this on/off will be needed for most people. I think we need YaST options in the wireless network area to tune the LED behavior. > Agreed. A graphical user interface would be very nice for tuning the LED > behavior. I suggest to open a feature request at [2] for that. > >Thanks, > Helmut -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305784

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[openFATE 306275] Import Windows Document in suse 11.2 installation
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Feature added by: andrea florio (anubisg1) Feature #306275, revision 1, last change by Title: Import Windows Document in suse 11.2 installation openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: andrea florio (anubisg1) Description: lots of distros (ubuntu mandriva and so on) allow during installation time to import documents from an existing windows partition. i think should be a greate idea do the same thing with suse. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306275

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[openFATE 306339] YaST module for setting up local OBS
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Feature added by: Dean Hilkewich (deanjo13) Feature #306339, revision 1, last change by Title: YaST module for setting up local OBS Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Dean Hilkewich (deanjo13) Description: It seems to me that one module that is sorely missing from yast is a local OBS module. It could greatly simplify the process and perhaps enable more people to cut their teeth on how to use it effectively instead of trying to build something on the hosted OBS which restricts what they can build without violating the terms and often involves a long wait to even see if something builds or fails. This whole process in a yast module might encourage people to use OBS. http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service/Build_Service_Installation_Tutorial/op… -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306339

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[openFate 305697] Raid support in sysinfo://
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Feature added by: Dean Hilkewich (deanjo13) Feature #305697, revision 1, last change by Title: Raid support in sysinfo:// openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Dean Hilkewich (deanjo13) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Can we please finally get support for raid devices in the My Computer / Sysinfo screen. This has been asked for repeatedly over the releases and still has not appeared. mdraid / dmraid setups are common, lets get some support for showing them in those screens. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305697

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[openFATE 306920] Dolphin command history
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Feature added by: Albert Thuswaldner (thuswa) Feature #306920, revision 1 Title: Dolphin command history openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Neutral Requested by: Albert Thuswaldner (thuswa) Description: Just a quite unfinished idea here, see if I can explain it... Wouldn't it be great with a command history in dolphin? Think something analogues to the history page in a web browser combined with the bash history (if you have used Matlab version 5 or later you probably have an idea what I am sort of getting at: http://matlab.izmiran.ru/help/techdoc/ref/commandhistory.html). Basically an interactive page which lists the previously performed file operations in dolphin, In it's simplest form something like this: Today (2009-06-20) ------------------------ move file | source path | destination change dir | source path | destination Yesterday ---------------------------------- ...... In terms of use cases you could se several * Undo/redo list * Simple way to repeat a command (just click on list entry) * If you make the interaction really clever you could use it to create simple macros , mark the entries in history that you want to include -> save for later * Log of what you have done with your files. * Probably more use cases that I can not think of right now,,, Ok with that said, I will not give you the pleasure to cut this to pieces all by your self, I will be the first to "help" you doing that ;): 1. Probably most would use the command-line for several of the use cases above (I do it myself and I am happy doing that) 2. To some extent this Idea intersects with other concepts, Time machine type functionality for instance. Still I think it is an idea worth investigating, don't you? -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306920

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[openFATE 306777] Yast Proxy Module GNOME integration
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Feature added by: Ney walens de Mesquita (nwm) Feature #306777, revision 1 Title: Yast Proxy Module GNOME integration openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Ney walens de Mesquita (nwm) Description: Would be nice if Yast Proxy module can integrate with Gnome Proxy setting. One of the problens about Proxy Module is that set System Proxy and not gconf configuration. This can cause a problem with firefox when the proxy settings has changed by Yast and Gnome relly on System Proxy and no in GCONF. Apparently Firefox by default relly in gconf. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306777

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[openFATE 306955] Shortcut trigger on KDEto menu entry
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Feature added by: Roman Bysh (Romanator) Feature #306955, revision 1 Title: Shortcut trigger on KDEto menu entry openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Roman Bysh (romanator) Description: Ever since we moved from KDE-3.5.x to KDE-4.3, we have lost the ability to use i.e. ALT+CTRL+K as a shortcut. It always reverts to CTRL+ALT+K. KDE-3.5 allowed the correct shortcut trigger. Can we add this shortcut trigger order back in to KDE-4.3? -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306955

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[openFATE 306780] Change icons on root (/) folder.
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Feature added by: Umar Ahmed (umar420e) Feature #306780, revision 1 Title: Change icons on root (/) folder. openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Umar Ahmed (umar420e) Description: It is difficult to find the use of the folders located in the root for a new linux user or a user who switched from windows, so, the there should be the icons in the root folder which can show the function of each folder which makes the os more user friendly. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306780

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[openFATE 306912] Enhance F-Spot
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Feature added by: Heribert Riesbeck (ve3fd) Feature #306912, revision 1 Title: Enhance F-Spot openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Heribert Riesbeck (ve3fd) Description: In order to make F-Spot more usable I recommend to (i) add camera profiles and (ii) allow for collections which are visible in the sidebar. In other words select pictures from a variety of events or whatever tags and recatalog them into quick collections. The underlying reasoning for this is, I would like to get away from Lightroom. Would be quite desirable for photographers. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306912

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