May 2010 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[openFATE 307908] Hercules Studio
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Mar '11

12 Mar '11

Feature added by: Avi Kivity (avi1) Feature #307908, revision 1 Title: Hercules Studio Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Avi Kivity (avi1) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Hercules Studio is a GUI front-end to the Hercules Mainframe emulator. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: It is more intuitive for some people (like myself) to use a gui-friven process than a command line. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307908

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[New: openFATE 308704] Replace the Show Dashboard widget by Show Desktop widget
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Feb '11

26 Feb '11

Feature added by: Rafael Belmonte (EagleScreen) Feature #308704, revision 1 Title: Replace the Show Dashboard widget by Show Desktop widget openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Rafael Belmonte (eaglescreen) Description: Focused to OpenSuse KDE. I think the Show Desktop widget would be very much useful than the current Show Dashboard widget in the panel, please replace it. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308704

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[New: openFATE 308502] System Rollback With Btrfs
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 25 Feb '11

25 Feb '11

Feature added by: pragnesh radadiya (pgradadia) Feature #308502, revision 1 Title: System Rollback With Btrfs openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: pragnesh radadiya (pgradadia) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: System rollback, update could be provided as openSUSE 11.3 feature using btrfs snapshot. Fedora 13 also accepted this feature, https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SystemRollbackWithBtrfs. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: System update and rollback become painless, Since if something is broken we can just revert to old state. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308502

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[openFATE 306924] Software Store like AppStore/Android Market
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 25 Feb '11

25 Feb '11

Feature added by: Raúl García (bgta) Feature #306924, revision 1 Title: Software Store like AppStore/Android Market openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Raúl García (bgta) Description: The idea is to create an online store like AppStore or Android Market using One Click Install. The currents search system is offuscated. By example, if you try to search "Firefox" in the current search system, you get more than one result, and Mozilla Firefox isn't the first. I think in some site like http://www.pbidir.com/ Thanks for your time and sorry for my bad english :) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306924

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[openFATE 307498] Improve and Integrate users.opensuse.org across openSUSE sites
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 23 Feb '11

23 Feb '11

Feature added by: Francis Giannaros (apokryphos) Feature #307498, revision 1 Title: Improve and Integrate users.opensuse.org across openSUSE sites openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Francis Giannaros (apokryphos) Description: There is a lot of need IMO for centralisation and improvement with users.opensuse.org and the other websites. This would help in building a community around the project, as it will make it easier to find out who is doing what and where. I really don't think this can be understated either. Things like groups (let's say, KDE devs, Bug triage team, IRC ops), contact details, home: repository in the build service, respective wiki page, and an avatar at the very least should be handled from there. A good example of this working in action (and really _helping_) can be seen on launchpad; i.e. https://launchpad.net/~sabdfl Selecting 'openFATE' because I can't see where else to put this under. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307498

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[New: openFATE 308352] Easy Way to put Media to USB Stick
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 23 Feb '11

23 Feb '11

Feature added by: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) Feature #308352, revision 1 Title: Easy Way to put Media to USB Stick openSUSE-11.3: Evaluation Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) Description: Currently a user has to run "dd" to copy an ISO image from file system to media - and this runs the risk that the user destroys the harddisk instead of the usb stick. We should create some simple ways to do the copy. Some options: a) A shell script that checks for one attached USB stick and copies the image over to it. b) A boot entry on the media to copy the image to an attached USB stick. Option b) would allow me to download and create the image on one machine and then put it to use on another one. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308352

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[New: openFATE 309261] Hardware Compatibility test before installation starts
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 23 Feb '11

23 Feb '11

Feature added by: ryan smith (ryan1414) Feature #309261, revision 1 Title: Hardware Compatibility test before installation starts openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: ryan smith (ryan1414) Description: I have a feature request for openSUSE 11.3 Before the openSUSE installation starts, openSUSE should first do a hardware compatibility test to check if a computer's hardware(video card, wifi card, printer, scanner, sound card, wireless keyboard, motherboard chipset,webcam,dvd writer, etc) will work correctly and also to check if openSUSE has the drivers to make them work. It could display a list like this: video card:nvidia 4353 Compatible/Driver not included sound card:Sound Blaster 3455 Compatible/Driver included If a driver is not included, users can look on the internet to see if there is a driver available. Once the hardware compatibility test is done and everything is going to be compatible, openSUSE can start the installation. If something/s are not compatible and/or a driver/s are not included, openSUSE can display 2 options for a user to choose which will be Continue installation or Cancel installation. Do you think you could implement this feature in openSUSE 11.3? Use Case: User testing if openSUSE 11.3 is compatible with their hardware before installation starts. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309261

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[New: openFATE 309159] Reorganize/Add functionality to the Gnome main menu.
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Feb '11

22 Feb '11

Feature added by: Mariusz Bielski (marbpl) Feature #309159, revision 1 Title: Reorganize/Add functionality to the Gnome main menu. openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Neutral Requested by: Mariusz Bielski (marbpl) Description: Nowadays if we want to launch application that is not in favourite (or recent) group, we have to do 3 steps: open menu, click More applications, and launch it there or search for it with search field - which is not the best example of usability. People are often changing Slab, to traditional menu, and/or to Gnome Do. How about making it like in KDE4 menu, where search field has different functionalities depending on tab on which we are currently. So, if we are in Applications tab, search engine searches for apps. Results are displayed in real time, in the menu itself. Of course it works as incremental search. <a href="http://kimag.es/share/29911151.png">[image] Menu: Searching fo apps.</a> In Documents tab we are searching for files: <a href="http://kimag.es/share/18560681.png">[image] Menu: Searching for files.</a> And in Places tab we are searching for places: <a href="http://kimag.es/share/67970630.png">[image] Menu: Searching for places.</a> There is a problem with this idea, because menu isn't designed to display huge amount of entries. Searching for a "a" string, can result with big number. So maybe in this situation scrollbar <a href="http://kimag.es/share/26285986.png">(r.1)</a>should be implemented, or only first few entries should be displayed in the menu, and rest will be available through "More Applications..." button <a href="http://kimag.es/share/36102822.png">(r.2)</a>. In this case, search string should be automatically copied into Application Browser search field. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309159

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[New: openFATE 308477] Optimize preselection of games on GNOME livecd
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Feb '11

22 Feb '11

Feature added by: Vincent Untz (vuntz) Feature #308477, revision 1 Title: Optimize preselection of games on GNOME livecd openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Vincent Untz (vuntz) Description: The GNOME livecd comes with games, from gnome-games. However, those might not be the most exciting games available -- we should split the gnome-games package to make it possible to install a subset of those games, and also find out if it's possible to install other games by default. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308477

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[New: openFATE 309616] Further develop SMB Traffic Analyzer
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 21 Feb '11

21 Feb '11

Feature added by: Holger Hetterich (hhetter123) Feature #309616, revision 1 Title: Further develop SMB Traffic Analyzer Requested by: Holger Hetterich (hhetter123) Description: Use Hackweek V to further develop SMB Traffic Analyzer, specifically it's real time monitoring functions. More information here: http://holger123.wordpress.com/smb-traffic-analyzer/ -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309616

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[New: openFATE 309108] Add support for R to Cantor
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 18 Feb '11

18 Feb '11

Feature added by: Kevin Coonan (KevinC_MD) Feature #309108, revision 1 Title: Add support for R to Cantor Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Kevin Coonan (kevinc_md) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Cantor can support R as a backend, but the OpenSUSE build of Cantor was compiled without the needed support for the very well regarded R statisical analysis software and programming language. It was likely done when problems w/ R building for 11.2 were encountered, and just has not been fixed. R is one of the intended, and advertised, back-ends for Cantor. R is an open source, robust, statistical programming language similar to the comercial "S". It has very strong community support, and nearly every statistical analysis or graphic is supported, including many which are not available with comercial software such as SAS or SPSS. It is also the primary tool for analysis of genomic (e.g. gene sequencing, gene expression, gene association) analysis via the Bioconductor project. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: R does not include a GUI front-end. While several are available, the previous KDE front-end (RKWard) does not seem to be viable (and I have not seen it anywhere in KDE 4). Cantor is promoted as the replacement for RKWard and the support of R featured in press releases, etc. Combined w/ adding SAGE support, this would make Cantor, and OpenSUSE, and ideal platform for mathmatics, statistics and informatics. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309108

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[New: openFATE 309376] Show history of accepted requests in webui for a project or package.
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 18 Feb '11

18 Feb '11

Feature added by: Adrian Schröter (adrianSuSE) Feature #309376, revision 1 Title: Show history of accepted requests in webui for a project or package. Buildservice: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Michal Svec (msvec) Description: The webui has no history of accepted requests for a certain project or a given package. This might be some nice junior job :) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309376

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[openFATE 306347] Expanded View in Web Interface
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 18 Feb '11

18 Feb '11

Feature added by: Stephan Binner (Beineri) Feature #306347, revision 1, last change by Title: Expanded View in Web Interface Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Stephan Binner (beineri) Description: The Build Service web interface should allow to switch to an expanded view (unlayered, with package patches applied) as alternate view. This would ease debugging of other people build problems and is also nicer for upstream/anonymous users (Fate#306192) without having to checkout via osc for expanded version. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306347

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[openFATE 306381] Read Only mode for anonymous users in Web Client
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 18 Feb '11

18 Feb '11

Feature added by: Adrian Schröter (adrianSuSE) Feature #306381, revision 1, last change by Title: Read Only mode for anonymous users in Web Client Buildservice: Evaluation Priority Requester: Important Projectmanager: Important Requested by: Adrian Schröter (adriansuse) Description: The OBS Web Client shall offer a read only mode for not loged in users. Goals: * The current projects and packages shall become browseable * Search engines shall be able to index our content * Our sources, including the patches should be accessable. * Log files shall be accessable for developers without login. What should not be accessable: Of course no write operations and everything which is causing too much load on our servers. The system must be still usable for packagers as higher goal. This means: * No build result downloads via api * No monitor pages due to the cause load ? -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306381

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[New: openFATE 309006] [obs update] feed for release products
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 17 Feb '11

17 Feb '11

Feature added by: Hendrik Vogelsang (hennevogel) Feature #309006, revision 1 Title: [obs update] feed for release products Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Hendrik Vogelsang (hennevogel) Description: Add [obs update] feeds for released products to the public feeds. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309006

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[openFate 305672] openFATE - Show References
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 17 Feb '11

17 Feb '11

Feature added by: Klaas Freitag (kfreitag) Feature #305672, revision 1, last change by Title: openFATE - Show References Requested by: Klaas Freitag (kfreitag) Description: openFATE should comfortably display and handle external references like: * related bug numbers * other features (dupes, related) * wiki pages into the opensuse wiki * sourcecode, ie. svn path People should be able to edit references as well. Wiki page and sourcecode references are new and must be added. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305672

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[New: openFATE 309322] L2TP support in openSUSE
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 16 Feb '11

16 Feb '11

Feature added by: Yasha Gindikin (SlonoInquisitor) Feature #309322, revision 1 Title: L2TP support in openSUSE openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Yasha Gindikin (slonoinquisitor) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Please, add the xl2tpd package to the installation DVD and official repository, and provide a way to configure the L2TP connection through the Network Manager. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Currently, many internet providers switch from the older Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) to a newer one, called Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP). This transition is especially noticeable in Russia, where both large and smaller ISP companies tend to obtrude it without any alternative upon the end-user. However, the support for L2TP is totally missing in openSUSE. Specifically, the xl2tpd package to provide the support is absent in official repositories and has no assigned maintainer. Which is a shame, since most solid distribution, including Ubuntu, Debian and Mandriva, have this package in their repos. Then, no support for L2TP is provided in Network Manager. Generally, there is not any configuration tool for L2TP in openSUSE, apart from manual tuning the text configuration files. The situation should be improved. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309322

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[openFATE 308150] how to enter expert/advanced partitioning during install unnecessarily obscure
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

Feature added by: Felix Miata (mrmazda) Feature #308150, revision 1 Title: how to enter expert/advanced partitioning during install unnecessarily obscure Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Felix Miata (mrmazda) Description: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=547703 has this bug's details. The current design is an nth iteration of a design that has been broken several years and needs to be fixed. Of all the major distros I've been installing over many years, openSUSE's has been the least intuitive advanced partitioner to get started. To convince people openSUSE is better than Ubuntu requires it actually be better. This is problematic for multibooters who get their existing partitiong corrupted because they didn't realize they weren't where they needed to be to get the partitioning job done properly. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308150

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[openFate 305768] Use open source firmware for b43
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 03 Feb '11

03 Feb '11

Feature added by: Helmut Schaa (hschaa) Feature #305768, revision 1, last change by Title: Use open source firmware for b43 openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Helmut Schaa (hschaa) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Currently openSUSE does not ship the firmware for broadcom devices due to legal issues. Only a script /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware is provided which is not easy to find for new users. However an open source firmware for these devices are available now at [1] and would allow to be shipped with openSUSE. Of course this firmware needs some testing but it would be quite nice to not depend anymore on the proprietary firmware. [1] http://www.ing.unibs.it/openfwwf/ -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305768

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[New: openFATE 309559] Improve crashdb retracer
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Feb '11

02 Feb '11

Feature added by: Stephan Kulow (coolo) Feature #309559, revision 1 Title: Improve crashdb retracer Requested by: Stephan Kulow (coolo) Description: opensuse needs a good crashdb -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309559

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[New: openFATE 309454] I want ice-cream for hackweek
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 25 Jan '11

25 Jan '11

Feature added by: Juergen Weigert (jnweiger) Feature #309454, revision 1 Title: I want ice-cream for hackweek Requested by: Juergen Weigert (jnweiger) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: There should be a good supply of delicious ice-cream duing the Hackweek to lure people away from their offices, towards the kitchen area. Test Case: Bring ice-cream to my office, I'll do the tests myself. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: In general, food supply is most important, this creates most effective breaks and allows for communications. (Please don't speak with your mouth full, though). -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309454

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[New: openFATE 309238] Easy to use bootable USB key creator
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 24 Jan '11

24 Jan '11

Feature added by: Brandon Philips (philipsb) Feature #309238, revision 1 Title: Easy to use bootable USB key creator openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Brandon Philips (philipsb) Description: Ubuntu has a great usb-creator tool that can be used to easily create bootable install media and even reserve a second partition to use for a /home/ in a LiveUSB environment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Live_USB_creator This tool would be a great addition to openSUSE and could replace our rather dangerous recommendation to use dd: http://en.opensuse.org/Live_USB_stick -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309238

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[New: openFATE 308385] Easier to install from an USB-flash memory
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 24 Jan '11

24 Jan '11

Feature added by: Magnus Gustavsson (magnusgus) Feature #308385, revision 1 Title: Easier to install from an USB-flash memory openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Magnus Gustavsson (magnusgus) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: I want to start with saying my appreciation of all SUSE developers, I really think SUSE is the number one choise, bot for beginners and more advanced users. 11.2 is really a big step forward, thanks a lot to all involved!!! However...following the discussion here; http://forums.opensuse.org/install-boot-login/426568-simplest-way-install-1… , I make here a proposal for improvement when it comes to the installation from other media than the commonly used DVD-disc, that almost all computer users are able to understand and use. The growing numbers of netbooks, without CD ocr DVD-rom built in is pushing the fact that OS:s today lack one important feature, namely an easy installation from USB- or flashmemories of all kinds. It is maybe wise to try to imagine where alternative OS like Linux would stand today, if there was not the possibility to download an .iso, burn it on a blank DVD-disc and then simply put it into a computer before boot. With this in mind, think of how many who really would consider testing linux or SUSE in particular on their netbook as a fist try (maybe because they imagine better performance than with the overloaded MS mostly shipped with the netbook, but are incapable of making the installation due to thee simple fact that their notebook lacks a DVD-drive. Beeing a linuxuser with more than a year of experience (and also a user who have made a USB installation once in fact), I still find the many and difficult stages in making a working, bootable USBstick wich will install a new version of SUSE so hard, that I really can understand why so many still are considering a Vista or a Mac in front of a linux OS. It is too difficult!! Basically I think a installation via USB-stick should not be more complicated than something like this: 1: to to format their stick to FAT16 (if it now really is needed), with any availible program in windows or Linux 2. Make this stick bootable with same formatting program 3. Download and copy the DVD.iso to the stick (or somewhere on the computers harddrive, but this is over manys limit) 4. Download and copy a special "SUSE-USB-stick"-file to the stick, that makes the necessary extra things U described in Ur posts such as extracting installer etc 5. Make the intended computer able to boot from a USB-stick 6. Put the USB-stick in the intended computer and reboot so the prepartion with DD etc is made, possible make the computer reboot again, and finally make the installation to start. These 6 steps would be easy enough to follow for a newbie, as well as for me. And it would work regardless of network or internetconnection for the computer. It would also take full advantage of the torrent technology since all can be downloaded the quickest way via torrent. And it will for sure make at least SUSE a much more attractive option for people searching alternatives to the mainstream OS they have been feed up with since small school. I made this request under SUSE 11.3 but maybe there is a better place for it, please feel free to move this in this case. Appreciate all comments about this. BR/ Magnus Gustavsson Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: To improve/ make easier installation process for computers without DVD-drive. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308385

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[New: openFATE 308354] Live USB Stick Creator
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 24 Jan '11

24 Jan '11

Feature added by: H. Hansen (cyberbeat) Feature #308354, revision 1 Title: Live USB Stick Creator openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: H. Hansen (cyberbeat) Description: It would be nice to have something like https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/ It is a nice GUI (linux/windows, created such a stick from opensuse) which installs a LIVE ISO on a USB stick. Perhaps it can be adapted to opensuse-media. It is written in python. It uses a existing partition (can be fat for example), and a casper-rw file for persistent storage (choosable size), so does not need extra partitions. - I did not succeed with the official tutorial at http://en.opensuse.org/Live_USB_stick to create a live stick, it describes also another method (hybrid with second partition for persistent data, which failed for me). Also with this solution it is not possible to use (and keep) an existing fat partition. - Today more and more laptops and netbooks without optical drives are spread. There is really needed an easy graphical tool now! Usecase: I am new to linux, want to carry my custom system around with me, and want that installation on usb just works Usecase: I buy a netbook and want to install opensuse on it without having to use console or software foreign software - I don't want different utilities on windows/linux to create usb live stick -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308354

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[openFATE 306756] non persitent install mode for flash disks
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 24 Jan '11

24 Jan '11

Feature added by: Bruno Gerz (bogz) Feature #306756, revision 1 Title: non persitent install mode for flash disks Hackweek IV: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Bruno Gerz (bogz) Description: It would be nice to get a install or move mode for flash disks. For example a non persitent live mode and may be options for storing system settings and more, a option to move a normal harddisk installation into a non persitent installation on usb stick, formating options for 'recommended' flash file systems Such a yast module would save much time and could also provide newcommers :-) See http://en.opensuse.org/How-To_Make_the_root_filesystem_read-only -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306756

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