December 2010 - 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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[New: openFATE 309088] zsync support for update channel refresh
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Mar '11

26 Mar '11

Feature added by: Dirk Mueller (dirkmueller) Feature #309088, revision 1 Title: zsync support for update channel refresh openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Dirk Mueller (dirkmueller) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: For every released maintenance update, the repodata/primary.xml.gz file grows by a bit (depending on the number of dependencies etc for every released package). To smoothen updater-experience and reduce the amount of data that has to be download for an update-repo refresh, the diff of the file should be downloaded by using zsync. In addition the repo-channel generation script has to run zsyncmake and gzip --rsyncable. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: With openSUSE 11.2, the primary.xml.gz size grows by 1.1MB for every released kernel, and currently the file has to be downloaded completely upon every change (due to xml.gz compression). -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309088

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[New: openFATE 309583] Lightweight WebYaST backend
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 24 Mar '11

24 Mar '11

Feature added by: Klaus Kämpf (kwk) Feature #309583, revision 1 Title: Lightweight WebYaST backend Requested by: Klaus Kämpf (kwk) Description: The current Rails based WebYaST backend (webyast-base-ws) is somewhat heavyweight (see http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Web/Deployment/Size) Explore alternatives with special consideration of * size (disk + memory) * integration (usefulness outside of webyast, pooling with other mgmt stacks) * more common/standardized data model * keeping it RESTful -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309583

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[New: openFATE 309335] Proof-read english desktop Strings
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 23 Mar '11

23 Mar '11

Feature added by: Juergen Weigert (jnweiger) Feature #309335, revision 1 Title: Proof-read english desktop Strings openSUSE-11.3: New Priority Requester: Desirable Info Provider: mexico yucatan (mana) Requested by: Juergen Weigert (jnweiger) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: the software strings that are fed to our translators are not in the expected qualtiy. We should find and address ambiguous or misleading messages, as this causes problems during translation. I suggest to proofread software strings and implement a feedback channel to upstream through our packagers. This request seeks a sponsor from SLED product management and - obviously - seeks approval for sharing the results with the world. Documentation Impact: Allocate Proofreader Resources Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Improve User Experience. Avoid incorrect localization. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309335

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[New: openFATE 310022] Improve one-click install experience in GNOME
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 21 Mar '11

21 Mar '11

Feature added by: Vincent Untz (vuntz) Feature #310022, revision 1 Title: Improve one-click install experience in GNOME openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Vincent Untz (vuntz) Description: Garrett did some great mockup that we should implement. See http://linuxart.com/log/archives/2010/06/21/one-click-part-2/ -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310022

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[New: openFATE 308441] Use ip_set kernel option
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 21 Mar '11

21 Mar '11

Feature added by: Don Hughes (dehughes) Feature #308441, revision 1 Title: Use ip_set kernel option Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Don Hughes (dehughes) Description: Compile RT kernel with the ip_set netfilter option, and include the ipset module in the distribution. The ipset module ( http://ipset.netfilter.org ) can be very useful in building firewalls for large networks. It needs the ip_set kernel module. Creating a firewall black list with just iptables could entail a filter table with a very large number of entries which can have a significant performance impact. ipset can be used to build much more eficient lookup tables, improving performance. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308441

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[New: openFATE 310992] WUBI like feature for openSUSE
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 19 Mar '11

19 Mar '11

Feature added by: Kim Leyendecker (openLHAG) Feature #310992, revision 1 Title: WUBI like feature for openSUSE openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Kim Leyendecker (openlhag) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Hello friends! A feature that I really miss in openSUSE is something like WUBI. Maybe you know this tool, what let you install Ubuntu on a Windows-partition. I think for beginners, who don't want to create a Linux-partition is this a easy and great way to have a nice welcome-unit in Linux. openSUSE will be a distro for beginners and advanced users, right? So this feature is a real nice present for beginners and people who just want test openSUSE. I know, it won't be easy to realize this idea, and I think it won't be a fast way to create the tool. but it will be a nice goal for openSUSE 12. So we have cleared the 11.4/12.0 question in one, because we can say something like this: "No, we give you openSUSE 12 when the WUBI-like feature is running". kind regards kdl -- Kim Leyendecker (kimleyendecker(a)hotmail.de) Kernel 2.4.37.10-kdl Maintainer Powered by openSUSE 11.2 "Emerald" GNOME This mail was composed under Linux -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310992

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[New: openFATE 309038] Wubi-like software for openSUSE
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 19 Mar '11

19 Mar '11

Feature added by: dsfdsf sdfdsfsd (pimousse92a) Feature #309038, revision 1 Title: Wubi-like software for openSUSE openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: dsfdsf sdfdsfsd (pimousse92a) Description: Hello, there is an Ubuntu utility which is very practicle. Its name is Wubi. With this utility, you can install Linux in dual-boot with an other OS. This utility could reassure a little bit the new users, those who are comfortable with partitions, etc... In my opininon, a utility similar to Wubi for openSUSE would be useful. This utility would be extremely interesting for new users. A part of the new users don't know how to partitioning, and they don't want to read all those documents about this. If somebody doesn't have the possibility to use a LiveCD, or don't have the possibility to use virtualization software, then this little utility would be the simpliest way to overview a part of Linux. The dual-boot is not a problem for the new user, he just wants to see what Linux is, and what Linux provides. I thought this utility would be useful in order to catch the attention of new users. Thanks to this utility, openSUSE would send a "message" to the new users like : "Look, the installation of Linux is very simple, look what you can do with openSUSE. Now, if you want to use completely Linux with the distribution openSUSE, you sould install openSUSE by ISO image, or CD, or "traditional" ways." This software would be the first step for the migration between Windows to Linux. With this way, new users would be used to Linux and openSUSE. Why Ubuntu is the most popular distribution on new users? Why Ubuntu catches a lot of new users? Because it is the best distribution? No I don't think so, if it was the case, I wouldn't be there :) . But Ubuntu is the distribution who do the most efforts to be known by everybody and finally, even if the first goal of openSUSE is not to have the most number of users, but all this energy and all the people behind this project did not do it for 4 users, but for everybody, every machine, every configuration, the openSUSE's goal is giving all the necessary tools to the user because openSUSE wants to give the possibility to use their machine at their own wish. That's why this utility, which in fact is not incredible, would be in my opinion, an important tool to make people aware of openSUSE -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309038

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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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