December 2010 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[New: openFATE 310802] Hardware TestSuite + S.M.O.L.T Windows client
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

Feature added by: Sławomir Lach (Lachu) Feature #310802, revision 1 Title: Hardware TestSuite + S.M.O.L.T Windows client openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Sławomir Lach (lachu) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Windows users always complain, there's no hardware compatybility on Linux. They even won't test LiveCD. LiveCD don't always can show full hardware support, like restricted drivers in action. Imagine, that OpenSUSE users will run hardware test suite afterinstallation and installation of restricted drivers. Result will be connected with hardware profile in S.M.O.L.T . With S.M.O.LT Windows client Windows user can match result from test suite database with thier hardware. Use Case: User have download S.M.O.L.T Windows Client and see results. If results are somethink: you may to install restricted drivers after OpenSUSE installation to your graphics adapter or everything will be working, then user will install OpenSUSE, eventually install restricted drivers and run Test Suite. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Actually many Windows user are scary about hardware support on Linux. They even won't install or test OpenSUSE. We need greater market to make OpenSUSE better. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310802

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[New: openFATE 310832] add write permission to users on the fstab options
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 09 Dec '10

09 Dec '10

Feature added by: Jean-Daniel Dodin (jdd) Feature #310832, revision 1 Title: add write permission to users on the fstab options openSUSE.org: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Jean-Daniel Dodin (jdd) Description: Hello, It's more and more frequent to have a big partition shared by users for large data (video...). Now one have to allow writing on these partitions with going root and making chown :users <mount point> chmod g+w <mount point> It should be a good idea to add the option in the partitionner to make this. One more option "allow writing by users", for example. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310832

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[New: openFATE 310912] Please, include Kile
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 09 Dec '10

09 Dec '10

Feature added by: Joseph Thomas Andrews (jtandrews) Feature #310912, revision 1 Title: Please, include Kile openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Joseph Thomas Andrews (jtandrews) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Kile, is best known frontend for LaTeX. It was also associated with KDE. For some unknown reasons to me, in recent versions 11.3 onwards, it is not included. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Kile (KDE Integrated Latex Environment) is known for its wonderful facilities and ease of use as LaTeX frontend. The features of kile are improving better and better as compare to other frontends.Please, include kile and Texmaker for technical writing. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310912

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[New: openFATE 310923] Update tv-card list in Yast Module
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 09 Dec '10

09 Dec '10

Feature added by: Dean Hilkewich (deanjo13) Feature #310923, revision 1 Title: Update tv-card list in Yast Module openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Dean Hilkewich (deanjo13) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: It seems that the Yast TV module seems to be missing some hardware from the list of supported cards even though they have been supported for well over a year in some cases. On particular example for me is the Hauppauge HD PVR. I'm not putting this suggestion in as a device specific issue but more of a general one as the device list in the Yast module is fairly out of date with what the kernel supports. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310923

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[New: openFATE 310930] Split samba-server.desktop into two desktop files
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 09 Dec '10

09 Dec '10

Feature added by: Christopher Yeleighton (yecril71pl) Feature #310930, revision 1 Title: Split samba-server.desktop into two desktop files openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Christopher Yeleighton (yecril71pl) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: KServicePrivate::init: The desktop entry file "/usr/share/applications/YaST2/samba-server.desktop" has Type= "Application" but also has a X-KDE-Library key. Consider splitting it into two desktop files. Test Case: { kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental; } Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: This works for now, but makes user-preference handling difficult, so support for this might be removed at some point. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310930

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[openFATE 308148] Add support for autoremove obsolete packages
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 08 Dec '10

08 Dec '10

Feature added by: Rafael Belmonte (EagleScreen) Feature #308148, revision 1 Title: Add support for autoremove obsolete packages openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Rafael Belmonte (eaglescreen) Description: Zypper needs to can autoremove obsolete packages, for instance: Zypper installs package A, which depens on packages B and C. Zypper remove package A. Packages B and C keep installed when they are not longer necessary. Zypper should can autoremove packages B and C. This is already implemented in other popular package managers like apt-get in Debian. This is very useful to keep a clean Suse installation along the time. Packages may have a flag that indicates if they were automatically installed by other package, or they were installed manually by the user. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308148

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[New: openFATE 310882] fix opensuse server
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 08 Dec '10

08 Dec '10

Feature added by: tys lefering (twlevo) Feature #310882, revision 1 Title: fix opensuse server openSUSE.org: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: tys lefering (twlevo) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: this server for openfate gives errors. logout errors, internal 500 error at submit, search errors. should not happen. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310882

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[New: openFATE 309089] Canon CanoScan 8600F
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 08 Dec '10

08 Dec '10

Feature added by: Karl-Eberhard Wagner (mechthild) Feature #309089, revision 1 Title: Canon CanoScan 8600F openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Karl-Eberhard Wagner (mechthild) Description: I wish to get a driver for this scanner in OpenSUSE 11.3 . Thanks Karl-Eberhard -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309089

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[New: openFATE 310856] don't remove custom grub entries
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 08 Dec '10

08 Dec '10

Feature added by: Christian Boltz (cboltz) Feature #310856, revision 1 Title: don't remove custom grub entries openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Christian Boltz (cboltz) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: from https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=648565 (written by Nico Gruber): Applying a kernel update will delete custom grub entries with this kernel and add a default one Steps to Reproduce: 1. duplicate a grub entry and add some parameter to the kernel command line 2. update kernel, e.g. by doing auto-update with one of the provided kernel updates Actual Results: the created custom entry in grub which uses the outdated kernel which has now been updated is removed, a default entry is created, e.g. "Desktop -- openSUSE 11.3 - 2.6.34.7-0.4" Expected Results: all (custom) entries with the updated kernel should be changed in order to boot the new one - without changing either the name of the entry, nor any parameters Custom entries can be there for various reasons, and I need them on nearly every system I use (see "use cases"). Please change perl-bootloader as described in "Expected Results" above. It should not remove or change any entry in menu.lst, except filename changes of kernel and initrd at a kernel update. Use Case: * Servers with RAID: fallback entry to boot from the second disk * abusing ;-) a boot parameter like x11failsave to switch between two xorg.conf files without hacking the initscript Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Because custom bootloader entries are used quite often, and it's very annoying if you have to re-add them at every kernel update. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310856

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[New: openFATE 309589] Support for WebM media
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 07 Dec '10

07 Dec '10

Feature added by: James Mason (bear454) Feature #309589, revision 1 Title: Support for WebM media openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: James Mason (bear454) Description: Google open-sourced the high-performance VP8 video engine and announced a new open media format based on VP8 video and Vorbis audio in a Matroska container. We should have *some* support available for it. Project: * http://webmproject.blogspot.com/ * http://www.webmproject.org Browsers: * Chrome Nightly: http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots * Firefox Nightly: http://nightly.mozilla.org/webm/ * Opera labs: http://labs.opera.com/news/2010/05/19/ Desktop: * FFMPEG patch: http://www.webmproject.org/tools/#ffmpeg_patches * Gstreamer plugins in development -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309589

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