December 2010 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[New: openFATE 310980] Monthly Qt updates
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 16 Nov '16

16 Nov '16

Feature added by: Johannes Obermayr (jobermayr) Feature #310980, revision 1 Title: Monthly Qt updates openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Johannes Obermayr (jobermayr) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: KDE has monthly updates and mainly depends on Qt. Qt only has updates from time to time. If you have crashes with KDE apps which are caused by (resolved) Qt bugs (e.g. Â¹Â²) we push them (days/weeks/months/years/decades?) in front of us until a new Qt release. Since a roadmap and/or monthly releases are not relevant for Qt/NokiaÂ³ we should provide own monthly releases of specific current stable branch in KDE:Qt together with KDE in KDE:Distro:Factory (it _link/_aggregate KDE:Qt). May creating additional repositories in KDE:Distro:Factory and KDE:Unstable:SC building against a KDE:QtFactory repository which includes mentioned above "releases" could also do the job ... Â¹ http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=249373 Â² http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-15857 Â³ http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-15975 -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310980

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[New: openFATE 308692] support keyboard layout switching in initrd
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 16 Nov '16

16 Nov '16

Feature added by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Feature #308692, revision 1 Title: support keyboard layout switching in initrd openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Description: When using an encrypted root partition only plain ASCII characters are possible as passphrase. International users may want to also use special characters though. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=547923 -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308692

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[New: openFATE 309257] kernel choise during installation
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 16 Nov '16

16 Nov '16

Feature added by: Stefan Schäfer (flacco) Feature #309257, revision 1 Title: kernel choise during installation openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Stefan Schäfer (flacco) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Since openSUSE 11.2 the special desktop-kernel is installed as default kernel during installlation. As its name says, this kernel ist optimized for desktop installations. I would prefer to choose my prefered kernel during the system installation. Alternativ the kernel choice could be combined with the choise of the desktop system. KDE,Gnome,XFCE = kernel-desktop minimal grafic, text-based server installation = kernel-default / kernel pae Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: The most of my openSUSE installations are server-installation ;-) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309257

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[New: openFATE 309840] Supress verbose messages after Grub
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 15 Nov '16

15 Nov '16

Feature added by: Anshul Jain (anshuljain) Feature #309840, revision 1 Title: Supress verbose messages after Grub openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Anshul Jain (anshuljain) Description: In the current bootsplash scenario, after we select the kernel version (or by default starts to boot with the only available kernel), it gives a brief 3-4 second verbose message on the screen.. something on the lines of "Uncompressing Kernel...<and the kernel options parameters>". It then proceeds to the bootsplash screen of openSUSE that we're all familiar with. This is elegantly supressed under Ubuntu through a patch called quiet.diff. I've added this patch to the grub SRPM and successfully built and installed it on my laptop (its available in my OBS at :- http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/anshuljain/openSUSE_11.2_Up…) I'd appreciate if the official maintainer of Grub can add this patch so that the boot can be a lot more elegant than what it is right now. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309840

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[New: openFATE 310666] More modern sound theme for KDE4
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 15 Nov '16

15 Nov '16

Feature added by: Otso Rajala (daedaluz) Feature #310666, revision 1 Title: More modern sound theme for KDE4 openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Otso Rajala (daedaluz) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Let's face it: the default soundscape provided by upstream KDE4 release is far from ideal. Majority of sounds in it are too long (default login/logout sounds, anyone?) and they do sound very old-fashioned (plain piano) while desktop itself is the most advanced available. I propose that we adopt some of the other, more modern sounding open licence sound schemes around to fix this issue. My personal favourite from OpenDesktop.org is Feather sound set, fail.wmv omitted completely, incoming_call.wmv cut in half with Audacity and used as login sound and finally opening.wav used as logout. http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php/Feather+Sound+Set?content=90916 I welcome every suggestion into this discussion. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: It provides the whole desktop enviroment with a much more modern feel while requiring minimal amount of work to alter upstream release. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310666

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[openFATE 307769] remove X-KDE-SubstituteUID and edit Exec on YaST2 .dekstop files
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 15 Nov '16

15 Nov '16

Feature added by: andrea florio (anubisg1) Feature #307769, revision 1 Title: remove X-KDE-SubstituteUID and edit Exec on YaST2 .dekstop files openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: andrea florio (anubisg1) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: All YaST .destop files in /usr/share/applications/YaST2 use the "X-KDE-SubstituteUID" to make them running as root. X-KDE-SubstituteUID is a KDE only "workaround" for that only KDE is supposed to be able to understand. Really, also GNOME as very famous DE understand that. All the others DE like XFCE, LXDE, Icewm and so on do not understand that (and they are not supposed to do that) so they run all yast2 modules as NON root user. all that Desktop files should edit their exec line and maybe remove X-KDE-SubstituteUID exactly as has been done with /usr/share/applications/YaST.desktop into yast2-control-center package. /usr/share/applications/YaST.desktop content: [Desktop Entry] X-SuSE-translate=true Type=Application Categories=Settings;System;SystemSetup;X-SuSE-Core-System;X-SuSE-ControlCenter-System; Name=YaST Icon=yast GenericName=Administrator Settings Exec=/usr/bin/xdg-su -c /sbin/yast2 #OnlyShowIn=KDE;GNOME; #X-KDE-SubstituteUID=true X-KDE-RootOnly=true X-KDE-System-Settings-Parent-Category=system X-KDE-ServiceTypes=KCModule Encoding=UTF-8 as you can see use /usr/bin/xdg-su -c in Exec line, made the .desktop file DE independent Test Case: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=540627 Use Case: any user running a DE different that KDE/GNOME will run al yast2 modules as non root user with all the warnings/errors that came from that Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: That will increase openSUSE usability for users running a different DE like XFCE and LXDE, and will be a great step to have that feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307729 perfectly working -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307769

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[New: openFATE 310668] run pulseaudio server with 'flat-volumes=no'
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Nov '16

02 Nov '16

Feature added by: robert spitzenpfeil (robert_spitzenpfeil) Feature #310668, revision 1 Title: run pulseaudio server with 'flat-volumes=no' openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: robert spitzenpfeil (robert_spitzenpfeil) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: I listen to music while writing... and every single time I change songs a hilariously loud POP is almost killing my ears. This is annoying and painful. What's also annoying is that with 'flat-volumes = yes' the master volume is changed to the loudest individual stream. If a rogue application should choose to up the volume, my ears get fried (headphones !) Personally I think the purpose of having a master volume slider is to limit the max volume to avoid this kind of crap, which is totally nullified by 'flat-volumes = yes' ! Proposal: use 'flat-volumes = no' as the default in '/etc/pulse/daemon.conf'. I think the user is clever enough to handle the volume sliders himself. And only because Vista or W7 fiddles with the master volume in this _sick_ way, we don't need that as well. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. play a song 2. increase the volume for the app. using pavucontrol or with the app. itself 3. master volume is pushed up as well Expected Results: The user should be the _only_ one messing with MASTER VOLUME. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: With 'flat-volumes=yes' it is possible to get permanent hearing damage if unexpected volume surges are forced into the user's ears! Again with this feature enabled _any_ application that uses pulseaudio can set the master volume to 100%. That might be tolerable with a stereo system with a manual volume knob, but on a laptop + headphones this is close to a criminal assault. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310668

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[New: openFATE 308401] Opensuse netbook edition
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 25 Oct '16

25 Oct '16

Feature added by: Agustin Chavarria (dj_ubun_1) Feature #308401, revision 1 Title: Opensuse netbook edition openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Agustin Chavarria (dj_ubun_1) Description: The growing demand for netbooks, has made several distributions of Linux, to create a specific version for these computers. The creation of a version with moblin, with gnome, and kde would be a big step. and also enter a specific kernel for these computers, including drivers and kernel patches to improve stability of the distribution. This would include a change in the interface in both gnome and kde, and both of these projects have packages to improve the interface little displays -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308401

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[openFATE 306896] Zypp-proxy - A proxy cache server for zypper updates
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 15 Oct '16

15 Oct '16

Feature added by: Alex Tsariounov (tsariounov) Feature #306896, revision 1 Title: Zypp-proxy - A proxy cache server for zypper updates Hackweek IV: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Alex Tsariounov (tsariounov) Description: This project will create zypp-proxy which is a server proxy used for caching update packages that are used by machines on the local network on a locally designated host machine that acts as a proxy to the openSUSE updates repositories. The project is similar in function and requirements to the Debian project apt-proxy, details of which can be found here: http://apt-proxy.sourceforge.net/ This project is useful for those who run many local (both physical and virtual) openSUSE machines and like to keep them up to date with updates; however, they do not wish to waste bandwidth for downloading the same updates over and over to all local machines whether when keeping exisiting machines up to date, or building new machines and having to re-download all updates yet again. For some people, simply mirroring the entire openSUSE updates repository is sufficient to provide local network updates; however, for most, since they do not use near as many packages as that repository provides, doing this simply wastes disk space. These people will find zypp-proxy most useful. Both server and client setup will be quite simple. The server will use the public openSUSE updates repositories to check for updates. The clients will point to the local server (the proxy) machine for updates rather than the public servers. When a client requests an update, the zypp-proxy server first checks if the public server has a more up to date package that what it has cached locally. If the public server doesn't, then zypp-proxy serves the locally cached package. If the public server does have a more up to date package, then zypp-proxy first downloads it to its local cache and then serves it to the client. How many old versions of packages to keep will be a configurable. The first implementation will support openSUSE 11.1 only, with support for other openSUSE releases following suit. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306896

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[New: openFATE 309540] Create Saxon9 Package
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Oct '16

05 Oct '16

Feature added by: Thomas Schraitle (thomas-schraitle) Feature #309540, revision 1 Title: Create Saxon9 Package Package Wishlist: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Thomas Schraitle (thomas-schraitle) Description: Currently we have only Saxon 6.x and Saxon 8.8. It would be useful, if we could add this package as it is under Mozilla licence. The latest version brings some bug fixing and some other improvements. Relations: - The XSLT and XQuery Processor (url: http://saxon.sourceforge.net/) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309540

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