January 2010 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[openFATE 306933] Integrate Social Desktop into our Desktop
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 10 Feb '10

10 Feb '10

Feature added by: Michael Löffler (michl19) Feature #306933, revision 1 Title: Integrate Social Desktop into our Desktop openSUSE-11.2: Evaluation Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Michael Löffler (michl19) Description: Social interaction between people becomes more important than ever. Communicating over the Internet via mails, forums and internet platforms is just normal. Just think of Facebook, Flickr, BitTorrent... One of the strongest assets of the free software community is its worldwide community of contributors and users who believe in free software and who work hard to bring the software and solutions to the mainstream. Core idea of the Social Desktop is to connect to your peers in the community, making sharing and exchanging knowledge easier to integrate into applications and the desktop itself. The concept behind the Social Desktop is to bring the power of online communities and group collaboration to desktop applications and the desktop shell itself. This feature is about the integration of such a social desktop into our desktop. If integrated it should be simply to use its functionalities but everybody needs to have free choice to use it or not. The targetgroup of the new community / social network is not only developers but also the end users who are not familiar with technical stuff and can with an integrated social desktop get easily in contact with people in the same area or people with same interests or software issues. Creation of some kind of facebook for openSUSE may stimulate the openSUSE adoption and bind existing users to the distribution. This could be beneficial for the marketshare of openSUSE. Another aspect is that this kind of communities can transform users into contributors. References: http://www.open-collaboration-services.org/ http://www.opendesktop.org -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306933

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[openFATE 308184] canon dr 2080 c dokument scanner driver
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 10 Feb '10

10 Feb '10

Feature added by: Veit Mischel (vminov) Feature #308184, revision 1 Title: canon dr 2080 c dokument scanner driver Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Veit Mischel (vminov) Description: It is possible to write a driver for canon dr 2080 c document scanner . This scanner could be controlled over scsi card or usb. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308184

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[openFATE 307753] Share files with others remotely - Dropbox by default
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 10 Feb '10

10 Feb '10

Feature added by: Rastislav Krupansky (ra100) Feature #307753, revision 1 Title: Share files with others remotely - Dropbox by default openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Neutral Requested by: Rastislav Krupansky (ra100) Description: Seeing that openSUSE is focusing on social networks, or the web applications like YAST elements - WebYAST, i think it would be great to offer something for synchronization files, sharing and work with others remotely. I think good choice might be Dropbox, which is multiplatform. Nautilus has already extension - nautilus-dropbox, but i don´t know whether any plugin is available under Dolphin, XFCE, etc.. I haven´t found yet. The one of ways could be here - http://antrix.net/journal/techtalk/dropbox_kde.comments -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307753

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[openFATE 307200] Replace ifconfig by iproute2 - add warning messages to old tools
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

Feature added by: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) Feature #307200, revision 1 Title: Replace ifconfig by iproute2 - add warning messages to old tools openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) Description: Because Novell once again cannot be convinced, I am putting https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492665 to public vote here. net-tools (/sbin/ifconfig, /sbin/route, arp, etc.) has numerous problems, not to mention that it is not developed since April 2001 anymore. Since April 2004, iproute2 is available as a replacement for ifconfig, but users still use the old tools with the seemingly-crippled functionality. I propose printing a warning message upon invocation to try and educate users to finally use the modern tools. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307200

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[New: openFATE 308396] Quick "insert new sheet" tab
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Feb '10

05 Feb '10

Feature added by: Kohei Yoshida (kohei_yoshida) Feature #308396, revision 1 Title: Quick "insert new sheet" tab Requested by: Kohei Yoshida (kohei_yoshida) Description: Calc should support quick insertion of new sheets by clicking a designated tab, much like how Firefox 3.5 allows quick insertion of new tabs via the "plus" button, and Excel 2007 via the new tab button. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308396

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[New: openFATE 308903] yast kernel config&compile module
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

Feature added by: Riccardo Pasquini (morphy76) Feature #308903, revision 1 Title: yast kernel config&compile module Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Riccardo Pasquini (morphy76) Description: yast interface to configure and compile our own kernel (yast interface for menuconfig) this interface should have the feature to store and retrieve saved configurations this interface should have the feature to interact with yast-bootloader to add a desired configuration in the available kernels for boot (otherwise yast-bootloader can provide a default slot for self-built configurations) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308903

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[New: openFATE 308275] YaBS - Yet another business software
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 31 Jan '10

31 Jan '10

Feature added by: andreas weber (anti43) Feature #308275, revision 1 Title: YaBS - Yet another business software Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: andreas weber (anti43) Description: Yabs - Yet another Business Software Multilanguage Billing and accounting software for Linux and others, oriented to European markets (unlike GNU Cash) * manages products and contacts as basic data * generates offers, orders, invoices and reminders * writes PDF- or ODF-documents (OpenOffice-format) * uses an unique .odt template system * is a multiuser software. * is the successor of der MP Invoicing. * GPL v2+ * is developed in Java. * works on Linux, Windows and Mac OSX * uses any JDBC compliant database backend (currently Apache Derby and MySQL out-of-the-box) * works in heterogenous networks * RPMs available * Translation module inbuild for easy translations in any language Mailing list: mp-rechnungs-und-kundenverwaltung(a)googlegroups.com Webpage: http://openyabs.org -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308275

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[openFATE 305552] Support in YaST for public directories in encrypted home directories
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 31 Jan '10

31 Jan '10

Feature changed by: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) Feature #305552, revision 11 Title: Support in YaST for public directories in encrypted home directories openSUSE-11.2: Rejected by Christoph Thiel (cthiel1) reject date: 2009-05-26 18:28:27 reject reason: Postponed for 11.2. Priority Requester: Important openSUSE-11.3: Evaluation Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Tim Lee (timl33) Description: A follow on feature to #301923. There should be a way in the YaST users module to specify directories to make accessable in an encrypted home directory when the user is not logged in. See bug #446317. I would suggest an editable list of directories to exclude from the encrypted image, with a reasonable set of defaults. Examples of directories to exclude ~/.vacation, ~/.procmail, ~/.forward, ~/public_html and ~/.ssh References: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446317 Discussion: #1: Fco. Javier Nacher (xiscoj) (2010-01-28 12:23:51) hi, maybe if not in yast, it could be like in ubuntu a context menu in kde/gnome over files and folders to encrypt them, like in windows too. So while you are logged they are decrypted to you but when not they are encrypted. Bye + #2: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) (2010-01-31 20:19:16) + What's wrong with having a ~/Encrypted subdirectory? You cannot + possibly know in advance how many dot-files would need to be readable. + To be frank, there are even non-dot-files like ~/public_html that ought + to be readable. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305552

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[New: openFATE 308904] libsysactivity
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 31 Jan '10

31 Jan '10

Feature added by: Carlos Olmedo (Hazel-dev) Feature #308904, revision 1 Title: libsysactivity Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Carlos Olmedo (hazel-dev) Description: Make a new package of libsysactivity (http://sourceforge.net/projects/libsysactivity/) It's a lightweight library that retrieves statistics of the system's activity in a portable and thread safe way. In each OS that it supports it offers the same API for retrieving the activity of: hard disks, CPUs, memory, processes and network interfaces. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308904

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[openFATE 303534] Extend BarGraph Widget
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 31 Jan '10

31 Jan '10

Feature changed by: Roman Bysh (Romanator) Feature #303534, revision 32 Title: Extend BarGraph Widget openSUSE-11.2: Rejected by Stephan Kulow (coolo) reject date: 2009-08-12 11:57:51 reject reason: too late for 11.2 I would think, but 25 votes lets me reopen for 11.3 Priority Requester: Desirable Projectmanager: Neutral openSUSE-11.3: Evaluation Priority Requester: Desirable Projectmanager: Neutral Requested by: Arvin Schnell (aschnell) Requested by: Matthias Eckermann (mge1512) Description: The latest mockups for the partitioner contain an BarGraph with additional features: * legend * several areas with same color/legend * a bit small (maybe not so important) Here is a picture (http://w3.suse.de/~aschnell/bg2.png) from the mockup. Relations: - Enhance partitioner to be more user friendly (novell/bugzilla/id: 390213) https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=390213 - Graphical Display of Hard Disk partitions (novell/bugzilla/id: 414322) https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=414322 - Blog Comment praising GParted (url: http://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/03/06/context-menus-in-yast-partitioner/#c…) Discussion: #1: Federico Lucifredi (flucifredi) (2008-06-13 15:15:21) Stano, if we need it it is of course M. Let me know, I just have no business reasons, this is entirely an engineering decision. #2: Stefan Hundhammer (sh-sh-sh) (2008-06-17 15:29:07) What's wrong with using the _existing_ widget with its existing features? #3: Stanislav Visnovsky (visnov) (2008-06-17 15:54:05) Agreement is that this is not needed. #4: Katarina Machalkova (kmachalkova) (2009-02-25 16:43:41) Can we please re-consider this for openSUSE 11.2 ? Some visualization of used/free space ratio on the disk/partition, or the whole disk layout in the partitioner overviews would be nice. The problem (not the only one) with current bar graph widget is that if some portion of the graph becomes too small, the text on it is no longer readable. A legend of the graph (as depicted above) would help a lot, but at the very minimum, some tooltips over the graph parts could be added #5: Michael Löffler (michl19) (2009-03-25 17:27:12) (reply to #4) It looks still like an engineering decsion. Stano please re-consider or reject ;-) #6: Arvin Schnell (aschnell) (2009-03-25 17:53:24) (reply to #5) I don't understand why this should be an engineering decision. This feature will directly influence what the users see. It's not a detail hidden deep in source code that makes geeks say "wow" if they should find it while being bored to death. This is a feature users are constantly asking for! #11: Jean-Daniel Dodin (jdd_sysop) (2009-04-08 20:53:33) gparted is much friendly than YaST. shame. jdd #12: FERNANDO RUBEN ESPINOSA RAMIREZ. (fersito) (2009-04-09 04:01:51) You must to do what ever you want Katarina so in order to learn like myself.-fernando (from Leòn GTO. Mexico)greetings. #13: Duncan Mac-Vicar (dmacvicar) (2009-04-09 11:03:22) (reply to #12) This is even a fake email. Final-Recipient: rfc822; ferub(a)att.net.mx Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; host mailin-02.mx.aol.com[64.12.137.89] said: 550 MAILBOX NOT FOUND (in reply to RCPT TO command) #14: Marc Telesha (mtelesha) (2009-05-10 08:03:28) Persoanlly I used a LiveCD of Parted Parted (Gpartitioner) before installing OpenSUSE everytime. It is much easier to do it this way when setting up a dual booting computer.I really think if it had a better GUI for partitions it would make this partitioning easier for people to understand, especially people giving Linux a try.-Marc + #15: Roman Bysh (romanator) (2010-01-31 02:12:55) + I agree. We should be leaders in innovation NOT followers. It's about + time we start setting an example on how things are to be done in Linux. + SuSE and openSUSE have been around a long time. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/303534

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