May 2010 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[openFATE 306116] Better lock handling in zypper
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 06 May '11

06 May '11

Feature added by: Marek Stopka (m4r3k) Feature #306116, revision 1, last change by Title: Better lock handling in zypper openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Marek Stopka (m4r3k) Description: Currently only two states in locking of packages are available (keep package as is/do not care about package) but I think it would be much more better to have a possibility lock only some parameters of package... For example you have a 64bit machine, but you want keep some package always in i586 version, but you still wanna version updates in this case there should be a possibility to lock only this parameter. Of course there is a lot of options what else can be locked, for example version of package, meaning that you can't change package version, but release number can change... -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306116

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[openFATE 307310] Good CJK / East Asian input support (esp. KDE)
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 May '11

05 May '11

Feature added by: Markus K (KAMiKAZOW) Feature #307310, revision 1 Title: Good CJK / East Asian input support (esp. KDE) openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Markus K (kamikazow) Description: Setting up CJK support for typing kanji has always been a bitch for me and I always failed -- especially under KDE 4, even though I consider myself an experienced computer user. Wang Hoi developed an applet that should make it all easier. It's currently in KDE-Review. He wrote about it: http://qiacat.blogspot.com/2009/03/as-my-first-post-first-say-hello-to.html http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/plasma-devel/2009-May/005420.html -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307310

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[openFATE 307873] Add the uuid-ossp module to postgresql-contrib
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 04 May '11

04 May '11

Feature added by: Reinhard Max (rmax) Feature #307873, revision 1 Title: Add the uuid-ossp module to postgresql-contrib openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Reinhard Max (rmax) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: As it has been pointed out in bnc#534050 and in private mail, we are missing the uuid-ossp module from our postgresql-contrib package. The reason for this is, that it depends on the ossp-uuid library, for which we do not yet have an official package in Factory. For 11.3 both, the library package and the contrib modules should be added. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: To stay compatible with the PostgreSQL packages of other distributions and with applications that require this module. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307873

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[openFATE 306471] auto create torrent files for images created
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 20 Apr '11

20 Apr '11

Feature added by: Jigish Gohil (cyberorg) Feature #306471, revision 1, last change by Title: auto create torrent files for images created Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Jigish Gohil (cyberorg) Description: Currently only metalink is created for the images created on the build service, it would be nice to have torrent files created too at the time of publishing the images. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306471

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[New: openFATE 308351] Make Live Updates Easy
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 14 Apr '11

14 Apr '11

Feature added by: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) Feature #308351, revision 1 Title: Make Live Updates Easy openSUSE-11.3: Evaluation Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) Description: The infrastructure is there for Live updates and it works with "zypper dup" but there are many manual steps. This is too complicated, users need first to google for the details before using it. We need an easy way to update from 11.2 to Factory, from 11.2 to 11.3 and from Factory to 11.3. Easy means: A single command line that does by default the update from 11.2 to 11.3 and offers the others as well. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308351

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[openFATE 305849] Provide the Ability to Natively Load More Than One Protocol Stack
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 14 Apr '11

14 Apr '11

Feature added by: Scott Couston (zczc2311) Feature #305849, revision 1, last change by Title: Provide the Ability to Natively Load More Than One Protocol Stack openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Scott Couston (zczc2311) Description: Currently we natively support only an IP protocol stack, however I would hazard a guess that SLES has the ability to load IPX as well even as we have moved away from IPX. The Other Misgiving is that natively we cannot support more than an IP Protocol Stack and the lack of very good open/proprietary 3270 type Terminal Emulation shipped by default. I would be much happier if opensuse OR SLED could cope with another Protocol Stack - In Australia there is an enormous market we currently offer no solution to in only providing an IP Protocol Stack. In my home Country Australia All Federal Government- Health-Social Security- etc./All Banking Sectors/Most all Military Sectors/All State and Federal Law enforcement/Others (Thats a big Market Place) need to support a 3270 type Terminal Emulator and directly address SNA or X.25 or STLC comms. To compete we must at least be equal in the market place! The other mass market world wide particularly in the US are PC's that all Travel Agents use to make their bookings. World Wide They would use either Saber or Apollo or Galileo or Amadeus or Abacus - that about covers the whole World now. The issue all user face with M.S is that they most likely have a dedicated comms server as M.S cannot even load the required Protocol Stack. Depending on which Global System is used they mostly stick to their preferred stack and this could vary from ALC/STLC/X.25/IP/IPX/MATIP/etc..... Enough said - I think we all understand how we can better appeal to other huge markets if we invest in the functional ability to load more than just IPV4/6. I think we need to look far and wide at ALL Industry comms and we CAN do what MS cannot - We could easily bundle off a very very good 3270 type emulator and support SNA AND IP directly without the possible need for a comms servers packet stacking and promiscuous translation to IP. So we have 2 huge untaped Markets we cannot help right now and these are Australian - .GOV/.MIL and internal Banks and credit unions Global - The travel Industry is their varying, but constant use of say STLC/MATIP If we need to pull apart IP coms in the future for IPV6 this would be golden to support more than an IP Protocol only. __________________ -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305849

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[openFATE 305842] Provide RPM Update Server to Update All openSUSE/SLED Workstations
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 14 Apr '11

14 Apr '11

Feature added by: Scott Couston (zczc2311) Feature #305842, revision 1, last change by Title: Provide RPM Update Server to Update All openSUSE/SLED Workstations openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Scott Couston (zczc2311) Description: *Please be Patient - This is my First FATE request* Definitions in this Submission Workstation == Any openSUSE/SLED installation that functions without direct server support Installation Server == Any designated PC that holds a repository for the complete RPM's contained at time of software Release. Update Server == Any designated PC that holds a repository(s) that contain online update RPM's The 'Server' would be accessible by normal NFS... et al Services currently available. Current Situation The Installation of a PC with openSUSE/SLED requires a huge number of Online Updates a situation that may never change whilst development continues. The Installation of openSUSE has the ability to perform many NFS Installations at one time whilst being able to create 1 repository server for the entire Installation RPM's for future addition of features and groups not included in the base installation. Feature Request Along the same notion of an NFS Installation I propose that we an Installation Server or Other to be an Update Server which downloads ALL RPM updates as they become available. Each Workstation then selects Online Updates from the Update Server per chosen update check cycle period. In this way each workstation needs only to connect with the Update Server rather than each workstation downloading its required updates. This has the potential to cut update traffic by the number of workstations installed on a LAN and this weighed against the traffic of downloading ALL updates and the traffic on ALL Online update Server Repositories and Mirrors external to the LAN. The concept is notedly simple however this has a huge technical repercussion and link to FATE #120340. This concept is open for addition to FATE #120340 or it can stand alone at the discretion of Novell.DE Whilst this concept is created by the author the technical impact/problems will require much input from Novell.De and Suse.DE and the author. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305842

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[openFATE 305919] Hunspell as a system wide spellchecker
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 13 Apr '11

13 Apr '11

Feature added by: Stephan Kulow (coolo) Feature #305919, revision 1, last change by Title: Hunspell as a system wide spellchecker openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Kálmán Kéménczy (kkemenczy) Description: Why Hunspell? MySpell is not developed for quite a long time either in Mozilla and in OpenOffice.org. Hunspell is a fork of MySpell, it has great improvements is several ways, and fully backward compatible with MySpell. Main features: * Extended support for language peculiarities; Unicode character ncoding, compounding and complex morphology. * Improved suggestion using n-gram similarity, rule and dictionary ased pronounciation data. * Morphological analysis, stemming and generation. * Hunspell is based on MySpell and works also with MySpell dictionaries. * GPL/LGPL/MPL tri-license http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunspell http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/ Fedora project: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureDictionary I also find a reference in the wishlist: http://en.opensuse.org/Wishlist_Various Relations: - Hunspell as a system wide spellchecker (novell/bugzilla/id: 354554) https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=354554 Discussion: #1: Stephan Kulow (coolo) (2008-01-18 06:18:21) For reference: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2008-01/msg00156.html #2: Petr Mladek (pmladek) (2008-01-18 07:20:54) * ** Bug 301458 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** #3: Petr Mladek (pmladek) (2008-01-18 07:24:25) I'll do my best to do it for openSUSE-11.0. I am still busy with some other things. Or Michael, do you have time to look at it? #4: Kálmán Kéménczy (kkemenczy) (2008-01-27 12:17:56) patch for gtkspell (2.0.11): http://www.abisource.com/~dom/gtkspell-2.0.11-enchant.patch using this patch makes obsolate the gtkspell-gcc-err-fix.diff patch for gnome-spell 1.0.7: based on https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426347 attached #5: Petr Mladek (pmladek) (2008-01-28 05:44:13) Adding gtkspell maintainer to CC. #6: Kálmán Kéménczy (kkemenczy) (2008-01-28 05:52:56) Created an attachment (id=191980) gnome spell check patch #7: Kálmán Kéménczy (kkemenczy) (2008-02-04 02:24:22) now available in Build Service (without dictionaries) http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/kkemenczy/openSUSE_Factory/ #8: Ladislav Michnovič (lmich) (2008-02-04 02:49:51) Proposed patch for gtkspell has been added. #9: Kálmán Kéménczy (kkemenczy) (2008-02-04 12:38:37) dictionaries http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/kkemenczy/openSUSE_Factory/… #10: Martin Schlander (cb400f) (2008-02-05 01:30:16) For Danish (da_DK) there's a dictionary being developed that's optimized for hunspell at http://www.stavekontrolden.dk http://www.stavekontrolden.dk/main/sspinputfiles/da_DK.dic http://www.stavekontrolden.dk/main/sspinputfiles/da_DK.aff I believe it's already a better option for hunspell than the dictionary from http://da.speling.org which is currently packaged. If not already it will become so soon as it's developed a lot more actively. Furthermore it's available under these licenses: GPL version 2 LGPL version 2.1 MPL version 1.1 Don't hesitate to ask if there are further questions. #11: Kálmán Kéménczy (kkemenczy) (2008-02-05 07:25:42) da_DK dictionary updated what is the next step? Someone had to decide to add it to the factory for further test. #12: Petr Mladek (pmladek) (2008-02-05 09:57:30) Lado. is there any chance that you could create the hunspell package for STABLE/FACTORY? I am still busy with some other stuff. #13: Ladislav Michnovič (lmich) (2008-02-06 02:49:05) O.K. I'll do it. It won't be in Alpha 2 because it is already under mastering process. It should appear in Alpha 3. #14: Ladislav Michnovič (lmich) (2008-02-19 06:14:25) Package is in Factory. #15: Kálmán Kéménczy (kkemenczy) (2008-02-21 03:48:22) imho several tasks left: * I am not sure that gnome-spell is Enchant-enable or not. ttps://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=191980 * Sonnet's enchant backend backport to kdelibs / kspell ttp://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154560 more info: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-December/msg01493.ht… * Removing hunspell from Enchant ttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426402 * vim patch for hunspell: ttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=219777 Should I create seperate bugs or we should keep them together here? #16: Ladislav Michnovič (lmich) (2008-02-21 04:13:53) (In reply to comment #15 from kalman kemenczy) > imho several tasks left: > > * I am not sure that gnome-spell is Enchant-enable or not. > https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=191980 > > * Sonnet's enchant backend backport to kdelibs / kspell > http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154560 > more info: > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-December/msg01493.ht… > > * Removing hunspell from Enchant > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426402 > > * vim patch for hunspell: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=219777 > > Should I create seperate bugs or we should keep them together here? Adding kde-maintainers and gnome-maintainers to CC. Reassigning to vim maintainer. #17: Bjoern Jacke (bjacke) (2008-03-23 12:43:01) * ** Bug 237828 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** #18: Bjoern Jacke (bjacke) (2008-05-01 15:57:47) - any news from vim maintainer on this? - enchant still needs rework or update - gnome-spell still needs enchant support added #19: Ladislav Michnovič (lmich) (2008-05-05 04:40:12) Adding JP. What do you think about this? See comment #15 and #18. #20: Matthias Koenig (makoenig) (2008-05-05 06:42:03) There are some problems with the vim patch. Currently we have /bin/vim-normal as default vim and /usr/bin/vim-enhanced. As the patch links against libhunspell which lives in /usr/lib{,64} we cannot link /bin/vim-normal against this. This would require either moving libhunspell to /lib{,64} which is not want we want (libhunspell itself also links against /usr/lib{,64}/libstdc++), or building /bin/vim-normal without syntax features at all (as the spell features seem to be tightly coupled to the general syntax features), which I also don't want. The best solution would be to provide a /bin/vim-tiny with minimal features and moving /bin/vim-normal to /usr/bin/vim-normal. But this will not happen for 11.0, as it will need yet another vim package restructuring. But, despite of this, yes, I think using hunspell is a good idea, as the vim dictionaries are derived from the OO ones and would otherwise waste a lot of space by duplicated data. Also worth mentioning, that this patch has been sent a year ago to upstream. While the idea has been appreciated, the patch has been rejected as is, AFAIK there has not been any work to improve this: http://www.mail-archive.com/vim-dev@vim.org/msg03252.html #21: Kálmán Kéménczy (kkemenczy) (2008-05-09 22:54:06) Created an attachment (id=214116) Gnome spell enchant patch here is the latest and greatest patch wirtten by Szilveszter Farkas from Ubuntu community, however this is created for gnome-spell 1.0.7, maybe it could use for 1.0.8. #22: Kálmán Kéménczy (kkemenczy) (2008-05-09 22:57:46) Rodrigo, could you check this patch to gnome-spell, please? https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=214116 Hopefully you are the maintainer for this packge. Many thanks, kalman #23: Stanislav Brabec (sbrabec) (2008-05-21 04:21:49) Patch applied (autogenerated files removed from it). #24: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) (2009-01-11 18:53:30) There's a ton of spelling tools, why could not it have used one of the previously packaged ones, aka aspell or ispell? #25: Kálmán Kéménczy (kkemenczy) (2009-01-12 01:19:59) Jan, Hunspell already packaged in openSUSE. To answer your why's please read comment#1 #26: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) (2009-01-12 03:06:41) >Hunspell already packaged in openSUSE But was not in 10.3. Hence the question. >comment#1 First comment says "Myspell". I asked about aspell/ispell. #27: Kálmán Kéménczy (kkemenczy) (2009-01-12 03:41:41) I think there are some reasons why choose Mozilla and OpenOffice.org and why Fedora decided as well, and slowly Ubuntu will go this way. In my comment#1 you should find the awesome summary: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureDictionary Hunspell is not a question, the question is when? -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305919

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[New: openFATE 308964] Network Services in Yasts Conflict with KDE Configure Desktop
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 13 Apr '11

13 Apr '11

Feature added by: Scott Couston - Resigned No Confidence (zczc2311) Feature #308964, revision 1 Title: Network Services in Yasts Conflict with KDE Configure Desktop openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Scott Couston - Resigned No Confidence (zczc2311) Description:  Network Services and their ability to function is often in conflict between KDE's Configure Desktop and Yast. In 11.2 a user cannot configure a Samba server using Yast and Configure Desktop with an MS Workgroup. The Yast>Network Services>Samba Server Interface will simply not work on its own to provide a New or existing shared RW Directory or Publish an Existing Printer. There is conflict between the Interfaces Configure Desktop/Yast Samba Server/The (Dolfin) Directory Properties Rights/The (Dolfin) Directories Properties> Shared Configuration. The Interface in Configure Desktop >Advanced>Samba cannot add a Shared Printer where the Printer is configured by HPLIP. Using ANY or all 3 Interfaces in 11.2 is just NOT possible to create a functional Samba Server By itself HPLIP DOES seamlessly interfaces with Yast>Printer its great. Many Network Service type Interfaces from KDE's Configure Desktop are in conflict. Desktop Search conflicts with Beagle. Configure Desktop Hardware conflicts with Yast Network Connections and others particularly with IFUP. Task Scheduler conflicts with Auto-Start. We need to test out own Interface conflicts between Yast and Configure Desktop settings before we release our integrated KDE Software/Yast Package. Auto-Spell just failed in this text box of FATE. KDE Server and Desktop software needs to work out of the box. (The Fate Error " There were errors: * The description is not valid richtext: Error: Element p is not declared in p list of possible children at :0." does not help anyone -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308964

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[New: openFATE 308959] Sheet-local range name
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Apr '11

12 Apr '11

Feature added by: Kohei Yoshida (kohei_yoshida) Feature #308959, revision 1 Title: Sheet-local range name Requested by: Kohei Yoshida (kohei_yoshida) Description: Support range names that are local to sheet. Calc currently supports global range names only. We need this for VBA interop as well as Excel interop reasons. Lack of this feature is also blocking upstream integration of Excel range name support. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308959

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[New: openFATE 308977] Support more than 3 conditions in conditional formatting
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Apr '11

12 Apr '11

Feature added by: Kohei Yoshida (kohei_yoshida) Feature #308977, revision 1 Title: Support more than 3 conditions in conditional formatting Requested by: Kohei Yoshida (kohei_yoshida) Description: Calc currently only supports up to 3 conditions in the conditional formatting dialog. We should extend that to allow perhaps semi-unlimited number of conditions. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308977

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[openFATE 306609] KDE SDK
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Apr '11

12 Apr '11

Feature added by: Cornelius Schumacher (cschum) Feature #306609, revision 1 Title: KDE SDK Requested by: Cornelius Schumacher (cschum) Description: Developing KDE application is not hard, but involves quite a bit ofmachinery. You have to get in place the development environment, tools,documentation for all involved components. Creating a KDE SDK appliance, whichputs all this together in a pre-configured and easily accessible way, could makeit even easier to get started with KDE development. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306609

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[New: openFATE 308658] Restart button in Firefox
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 08 Apr '11

08 Apr '11

Feature added by: Thorsten Kukuk (kukuk) Feature #308658, revision 1 Title: Restart button in Firefox openSUSE-11.3: New Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Thorsten Kukuk (kukuk) Description: We release a lot of MozillaFirefox updates. Every update has the risk, that parts of an already running firefox don't work anymore. Especially popup-windows are very often empty afterwards. Because of the broken popup windows, it is not always possible to close firefox and start it again without loosing the current sessions. If you configure themes and/or plugins, MozillaFirefox offers sometimes a "restart" button. We shoud provide this functionality in the standard menu, too, so that customers can restart firefox without loosing data. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308658

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[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 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 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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[openFate 305075] Allow to set the owner of a partition
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

Feature added by: Arvin Schnell (aschnell(a)novell.com) Feature #305075, revision 1 Title: Allow to set the owner of a partition openSUSE-11.1: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Sven Burmeister (sven.burmeister(a)gmx.net) 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. Discussion: #1: Arvin Schnell(aschnell(a)novell.com) (2008-07-15 08:32:00) Do you want to set gui and uid in /etc/fstab? #2: Sven Burmeister(sven.burmeister(a)gmx.net) (2008-07-15 08:56:26) I'm not sure which is the best approach. Either the user could do something that replaces "chown user:group ." on the new partition or some predefined gui/uid to select from, because the normal user has no idea about those and the numbers that go with them. The goal is that a user that knows the root password can not only partition a new harddrive via GUI but also make it accessible (rw) to users without having to know anything about fstab-syntax and options. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305075

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[New: openFATE 309115] Integrate Apple Magic Mouse driver
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

Feature added by: Andreas Schneider (Los_Andros) Feature #309115, revision 1 Title: Integrate Apple Magic Mouse driver Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Andreas Schneider (los_andros) Description: Hello, I'm using the Apple Magic Mouse and Apple Wireless Keyboard (both bluetooth). The Apple MAgic Mouse has a Touch Screen surface for vertical & horizontical scrolling. The left click and right click is working out of the box using the standard kernel (also the KOTD). You can find a development of the Aple Magic Mouse driver (hid-magicmouse) here: http://github.com/entrope/linux-magicmouse I was unable to build a kernel module and I'm not sure if the driver will be integrated into the standard kernel, so it would be nice to have patched kernel for the openSUSE standard kernel that supports the Apple Magic Mouse. Regards Andy -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309115

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[openFATE 306385] Official realtime kernel
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

Feature added by: Michal Smrž (ilfirin) Feature #306385, revision 1, last change by Title: Official realtime kernel openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Michal Smrž (ilfirin) Description: There is no official kernel-rt in main repository (and main update). Realtime kernel is very important for audio workers and those, who need very fast responses. There are third party packages, but official support for realtime kernel would be much better. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306385

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[New: openFATE 309258] YaST RPM Package Installer should give some feedback about success or failure
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

Feature added by: Jakub Rusinek (liviopl) Feature #309258, revision 1 Title: YaST RPM Package Installer should give some feedback about success or failure openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Jakub Rusinek (liviopl) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: YaST doesn't notify about progress, dependencies and finish of installation. Use Case: When you decide to open your downloaded RPM within YaST, you need to know, that you won't get informed, whether installation is successful or has failed. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: (K)PackageKit surely notifies somehow, why should YaST stay behind? I didn't see any info about PackageKit getting included in SUSE as default packaging suite, so YaST needs to make progress. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309258

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