May 2010 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[New: openFATE 308521] Print duplex test page when duplex enabled
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 21 Dec '10

21 Dec '10

Feature added by: Todd R (TheBlackCat) Feature #308521, revision 1 Title: Print duplex test page when duplex enabled openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Todd R (theblackcat) Description: It is easy to enable duplex printing in the YaST printer configuration module. However, the test page that is printed from the YaSt module is only one page long, making it useless for testing whether the duplex printing is actually working correctly. To test it you need to make a two-page document by hand and then print that. Further, cups has the somewhat obtuse "Tumble"/"NoTumble" option, and it is not really obvious what this does. So it would be nice if, when duplex is enabled, the "Print Test Page" button prints a two-page document so you can see if duplex is working and is oriented how you want it. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308521

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[New: openFATE 308602] eclipse include cdt , c & c++ support
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 21 Dec '10

21 Dec '10

Feature added by: cristian díaz (moldavio) Feature #308602, revision 1 Title: eclipse include cdt , c & c++ support openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: cristian díaz (moldavio) Description: eclipse include cdt , c & c++ support whit the ultimate version thanls -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308602

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[New: openFATE 308520] Change bootloader to lilo - it just works.
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 21 Dec '10

21 Dec '10

Feature added by: Per Jessen (pjessen) Feature #308520, revision 1 Title: Change bootloader to lilo - it just works. openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Per Jessen (pjessen) Description: In light of recent discussion wrt bootloader, in particular GRUB and GRUB2, I would like to suggest an alternative: that we revert to lilo as the default and supported boot-loader. As at least two people have said, lilo just works. It is a tried and tested, file-system independent and mature boot-loader. Lilo is boring - just what we need for a stable distribution. Let me take care of the counter-arguments right away: * lilo doesn't support reiserfs' tail option. (requires that the /boot file-system is mounted with –notail). Not really much of a drawback, IMHO. Reiserfs has been slowly losing popularity, and with this tail option being a reiserfs-only feature, this is a corner case barely worth considering. * lilo is poor wrt recovery and diagnostics. Granted, it probably is. For a system to be played and experimented with, lilo might not be optimal. For a stable production system, whether a server, an office desktop or a home system, lilo does a very good job. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308520

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[New: openFATE 308603] include netbeans 6.8 or later
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 21 Dec '10

21 Dec '10

Feature added by: cristian díaz (moldavio) Feature #308603, revision 1 Title: include netbeans 6.8 or later openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: cristian díaz (moldavio) Description: include netbeans 6.8 or later -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308603

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[New: openFATE 308608] support "all" mac os x widgets
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 21 Dec '10

21 Dec '10

Feature added by: cristian díaz (moldavio) Feature #308608, revision 1 Title: support "all" mac os x widgets openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: cristian díaz (moldavio) Description: support "all" mac os x and windows widgets on plasma -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308608

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[New: openFATE 308624] EDC-3000D CMOS Camera Support
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 21 Dec '10

21 Dec '10

Feature added by: Julio Vannini (UngaMan) Feature #308624, revision 1 Title: EDC-3000D CMOS Camera Support openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Julio Vannini (ungaman) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: The CMOS Camera EDC-3000D (http://www.machinevisiononline.org/buyers_guide/newproducts/details.cfm?id=…) is a high sensitivity camera for use in microscopes and telescopes. Being a USB 2.0 device, one may think the openSUSE 11.2 would detect it but it does not. It would be very nice if a detection of this camera is made possible. Use Case: Astrophotography of lunar and planetary bodies is one of the main activities in the world of Amateur Astronomers. Having very sensitive devices allow a better performance and detail in the pictures taken. (http://lpod.wikispaces.com/file/view/LPOD-Jan4-10.jpg/111515135/LPOD-Jan4-1…) Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Amateur Astronomers have become a very active-worldwide group, sharing knowledge and expertise. The recent International Year of Astronomy allowed us to reach a more significant number of public attention and outreach around the World. People gets interested in learning more about science and education, and a stable distribution like openSUSE can offer a lot of tools for the initiated or seasoned astronomer. So, having the capability for use high quality devices we can help spreading the word and options to the public. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308624

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[New: openFATE 308761] Additional Wallpaper
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 21 Dec '10

21 Dec '10

Feature added by: Anton Reznik (reanxp-rus) Feature #308761, revision 1 Title: Additional Wallpaper openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Anton Reznik (reanxp-rus) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Hi, guys! My name is Antony. I make cool wallpaper for openSUSE 11.3. I want see in release :) . I make this wallpaper in Gimp. I can send source of image, and you can change wallpaper as need. This is a jpg-preview on Picasa - http://lh6.ggpht.com/_1sPHVp6iIMw/S037fTqrP1I/AAAAAAAAAHA/MAap_mT7ctM/wallp…. Thanks for review this Feature :) Antony. antony.rean(a)gmail.com Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Additional wallpapers - a great thing! You can make some great new wallpapers so that users can choose to taste! I can help in this :) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308761

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[openFATE 307140] Include Ramlog application in OpenSUSE
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 21 Dec '10

21 Dec '10

Feature added by: Glenn Doig (doiggl) Feature #307140, revision 1 Title: Include Ramlog application in OpenSUSE openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Glenn Doig (doiggl) Description: See article Improve system performance by moving your log files to RAM http://www.linux.com/feature/141231 (http://www.linux.com/feature/141231) http://tofu3.szm.sk/ramlog/ (http://tofu3.szm.sk/ramlog/) (Some info) The Ramlog project lets you keep your system logs in RAM while your machine is running and copies them to disk when you shut down. If you are running a laptop or mobile device with syslog enabled, Ramlog might help you increase your battery life or the life of the flash drive on your mobile device. As a side effect of using Ramlog, you will be less likely to be caught out by a daemon that suddenly starts sending a message to syslog every 30 seconds and saps your battery keeping the hard disk spinning. Thankyou -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307140

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[openFATE 307469] Add support for Hauppauge HVR950q tuner
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 21 Dec '10

21 Dec '10

Feature added by: Ken Schneider (kensch) Feature #307469, revision 1 Title: Add support for Hauppauge HVR950q tuner openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Ken Schneider (kensch) Description: Support for the tuner has been in the kernel for over a year but there is none in YaST. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307469

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[New: openFATE 308304] Graphical installation should use native drivers
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 20 Dec '10

20 Dec '10

Feature added by: Marco Poletti (poletti_marco) Feature #308304, revision 1 Title: Graphical installation should use native drivers openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Marco Poletti (poletti_marco) Description: The installation process now uses fbdev driver instead of native, for compatibility reasons. I think it should use native drivers when it's possible. This would allow: 1) Support to widescreen resolutions, so for example you don't have to use 1024x768 if you have a 1280x768 notebook. 2) Using 32 bit per pixel (if available) for installations, so we can have nice shades instead of current ugly 16 bit/pixel shades. This has been already reported as two wishes in bugzilla (bug 534895 and bug 535049), but was closed as Invalid because Unless we decide to switch to native driver also for installation I need to mark this one as INVALID. So if you want wide resolutions and smoother shades, vote for this! -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308304

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[New: openFATE 308307] Developers help translators with screenshots
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 20 Dec '10

20 Dec '10

Feature added by: Kálmán Kéménczy (kkemenczy) Feature #308307, revision 1 Title: Developers help translators with screenshots openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Kálmán Kéménczy (kkemenczy) Description: Translating GUI is not easy task. This is not a simple translation but localization. We would like to provide usable interface for non-english users. Developers could help a lot if they could create screenshots to help translator's work. This screenshots could upload somewhere in opensuse filesystem infrastructure and developers could put the screenshot URL in the source code as translation comment. Translators could easliy find out the right phrase, can coose right hot keys and this could speed up the translation and leverage the quality. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308307

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[New: openFATE 308440] Official Screensaver
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 20 Dec '10

20 Dec '10

Feature added by: Quentin Denis (queden) Feature #308440, revision 1 Title: Official Screensaver openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Quentin Denis (queden) Description: What about an official screensaver for openSUSE? Like Windows always has had, something humble and soft, but stylish! Currently there is no useful screensaver, either they're to crappy or to agressive. Regards, Quentin -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308440

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[New: openFATE 308935] Video Driver Protection
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 18 Dec '10

18 Dec '10

Feature added by: Wilson Phillips (Wilson_Phillips) Feature #308935, revision 1 Title: Video Driver Protection openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Wilson Phillips (wilson_phillips) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Give a way for a failed proprietary video driver to fail back to the open source driver, This would not leave a surprised newbie staring at the command prompt and wondering what just happened to his system. We old techs can easily work around this problem and we have done so for years, but newbies can do a fresh install and as soon as they do their updates, they get a new kernel and it breaks their video. How many new users have we lost over the years becasue of this problem. We need to change the way we think about these small issues and how they affect the new users. This needs to be a priority. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: We need to change the way we think about these small issues and how they affect the new users. This needs to be a priority. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308935

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[openFATE 305923] osc revert or merge
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 18 Dec '10

18 Dec '10

Feature added by: Will Stephenson (wstephenson) Feature #305923, revision 1, last change by Title: osc revert or merge Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Will Stephenson (wstephenson) Description: The only way to revert packages currently is very inconvenient. Some more svn semantics like osc merge to enable reverts would help. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305923

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[New: openFATE 308836] performance: scaling ...
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 17 Dec '10

17 Dec '10

Feature added by: Michael Meeks (michael_meeks) Feature #308836, revision 1 Title: performance: scaling ... Buildservice: New Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Michael Meeks (michael_meeks) Description: Build performance should scale, in proportion to the number of users, and not the number of build nodes. Put another way - providing a means to apply local CPU horsepower to the channel, combined with some approach (eg. an xdelta to the previous built binary RPMS) to overcome the (typically) assymetric bandwidth availability in a typical DSL client - easy to download a reference to diff against, hard to up-load it. I would love to donate my CPU resource to help accelerate the projects I care about; as - no-doubt would others. Of course - this has security implications, which are (most likely) more or less meaningless. We ship binaries (re-)built from internal, signing servers anyway, and we have an authentication structure in place: if paranoia reigns, we could restrict that to a further subset of privileged users. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308836

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[openFATE 306582] I need to be able to cc a colleague
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 17 Dec '10

17 Dec '10

Feature added by: Linux Tag (LinuxTag2009) Feature #306582, revision 1 Title: I need to be able to cc a colleague openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Linux Tag (linuxtag2009) Description: collaboration is not readily available. I currently need to convice everyody to add himself as interested, I cannot invite anybody directly. Use Case: would be helpful for getting a feature discussion started -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306582

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[New: openFATE 309157] Install and booting from partitioned MD devices
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 17 Dec '10

17 Dec '10

Feature added by: Dennis Olsson (DOlsson) Feature #309157, revision 1 Title: Install and booting from partitioned MD devices openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Dennis Olsson (dolsson) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Now that the kernel 2.6 supports partitioned MD devices, even to the point where it is possible create a MD device from unpartitioned disks , after which the partitions are created on the MD device, YaST2 needs to be upgraded to be able to handle partitioned MD devices , just as it should be possible to be able to create partitioned MD devices consisting of unpartitioned disks . Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Using partitioned MD devices makes it a lot easier to create and handle MD devices in that one needs a lot less MD devices. E.g. creating a RAID1 using two disks require first to partitioned the disks (e.g. p1 for "/boot", p2 for "swap" and p3 for LVM), mark these partitions as type "0xFD", after which each of these 3 partitions can be put together as 3 x RAID1 MD devices (/dev/md[0-3]). Using partitioned MD device makes this a lot easier by creating the MD device out of the 2 unpartitioned disks having e.g. "/dev/md/raid1" and then create the 3 partitions ("/dev/md/raid1p[1-3]"). -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309157

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[New: openFATE 309340] Wallpaper
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 17 Dec '10

17 Dec '10

Feature added by: Wojciech Mis (Wojciechmis) Feature #309340, revision 1 Title: Wallpaper Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Wojciech Mis (wojciechmis) Description: I may be writing to wrong person but I try anyway. I had to reinstall my OpenSUSE and when I set-up wallpaper "Lighting" I noticed that in wallpapers is my picture witch I posted on kde-look. Well, I updated that picture because I got better scanner and learned more how to use GIMP. If openSUSE developers used that picture I'm very happy to contribute to Linux, since I have been using it for free for a little while and I like it. Here are updated pictures: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Lightning003?content=78444 http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/LightningDenver?content=78319 It is possible that I put those pictures in wallpapers folder during installation. If that is the case I'm sorry for wasting Your time. I'm writing to You because I cannot find any better place to write and if You could point me to right I'll be very greatfull. Sincerely wojciechmis -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309340

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[openFATE 307115] Open Multiple files
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 17 Dec '10

17 Dec '10

Feature added by: Claude Gouedard (cgoued) Feature #307115, revision 1 Title: Open Multiple files Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Claude Gouedard (cgoued) Description: Hi all, In openning files for a new project, it would be nice to be able openning more than one file at a time. It is just a question of an evolved widget. Thanks in advance cgoued -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307115

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[openFate 305695] Binary Upload of prebuild packges
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 17 Dec '10

17 Dec '10

Feature added by: Martin Mohring (MartinMohring) Feature #305695, revision 1, last change by Title: Binary Upload of prebuild packges Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Martin Mohring (martinmohring) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Ths allow also developers without direct access to the OBS backend to create distributions that consist of only binary packages or that are initially created from binary packages, there should be a combination of backend and osc be capable to upload binary files to :full directory of a project. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305695

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[New: openFATE 308564] UI: Show Date of files in a Package/Project
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 17 Dec '10

17 Dec '10

Feature added by: Thomas Biege (thomasbiege) Feature #308564, revision 1 Title: UI: Show Date of files in a Package/Project Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Thomas Biege (thomasbiege) Description: Hello, having the date of files being displayed in the web-ui would be a helpful enhancement. Currently only the size of the files are shown. Thanks. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308564

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[openFATE 306175] More powerful Build Service search
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 17 Dec '10

17 Dec '10

Feature added by: Will Stephenson (wstephenson) Feature #306175, revision 1, last change by Title: More powerful Build Service search Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Will Stephenson (wstephenson) Description: Sometimes you only want to search the 'official' projects, not everyone's scratch projects. An 'exclude home: projects' toggle in osc and the web frontend would be a good start This could be implemented as a specialisation of an --exclude-projects-matching <regexp> - and then you need a --search-only-matching <regexp> option for symmetry. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306175

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[New: openFATE 308500] Replace qtcurve-gtk2 with Oxygen look-alike in KDE setups
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 16 Dec '10

16 Dec '10

Feature added by: Philipp Massek (pmassek) Feature #308500, revision 1 Title: Replace qtcurve-gtk2 with Oxygen look-alike in KDE setups openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Philipp Massek (pmassek) Description: With the release of openSUSE 11.2, KDE-integration of a few important apps (most notably Firefox) has progressed a great deal, including fitting icon themes and dialogs. The default GTK style is still Curve though, which isn't quite consistent with the Oxygen widget style. This can be easily remedied with the "Oxygen-Molecule" GTK style (http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Oxygen-Molecule+KDE+&+GTK%2B+unifi…) and it would be nice to see this or something to that effect in future versions of the distribution. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308500

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[New: openFATE 308425] Please port Slick icon theme to KDE4
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 16 Dec '10

16 Dec '10

Feature added by: Ilya Chernykh (Ansus) Feature #308425, revision 1 Title: Please port Slick icon theme to KDE4 openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Ilya Chernykh (ansus) Description: This is a very cool icon theme polssibly inspired by Vista's icons. Please port it from KDE3 to KDE4. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308425

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[New: openFATE 308297] Per Application Volume in KDE
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 16 Dec '10

16 Dec '10

Feature added by: Wyatt Gosling (beachchairs) Feature #308297, revision 1 Title: Per Application Volume in KDE openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Wyatt Gosling (beachchairs) Description: Pulse Audio gives users the ability to set sound volumes per application, but there is currently no UI to do this in KDE4. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308297

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