May 2010 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[New: openFATE 308395] Battery Time Remaining
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 16 Dec '10

16 Dec '10

Feature added by: Barry Nichols (Barry_Nichols) Feature #308395, revision 1 Title: Battery Time Remaining openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Barry Nichols (barry_nichols) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: On mouse over the KDE battery widget on the panel, display the time remaining aswell as the currently displayed percent remaining. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: This will make it easier to know how long the battery in the laptop has remaining before charging is required. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308395

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[openFate 305081] openSUSE Testfeature
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 11 Dec '10

11 Dec '10

Feature added by: Christopher Hofmann (cwh(a)novell.com) Feature #305081, revision 1 Title: openSUSE Testfeature openSUSE-11.1: New Priority Requester: Neutral Requested by: Christopher Hofmann (cwh(a)novell.com) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Feel free to play aroud with this feature. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305081

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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 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 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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[openFATE 307523] Make hard disk encryption configurable
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

Feature added by: Stephan Kleine (bitshuffler) Feature #307523, revision 1 Title: Make hard disk encryption configurable openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Stephan Kleine (bitshuffler) Description: E.g. currently aes-cbc-essiv instead of aes-xts-plain is used because it is the upstream default although it has a number of disadvantages. That is perfectly fine as long as one could change the default. In short the following features are needed: 1) Possibility to override used options during installation (also should be setable via autoyast / kiwi so one doesn't have to change the setting on every new install). 2) Possibility to override used options during partition creation. 3) Possibility to set the used default options in some /etc file. IMHO a simple text field in the partitioner to override the used options would perfectly suffice. Then safe & restore that field via autoyast & kiwi and be done. The systemwide default should be stored in some /etc/sysconfig file. Related bug report: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=534644 -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307523

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[openFATE 307485] Xinerama in Yast
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

Feature added by: Roberto Gibertini (rgibertini) Feature #307485, revision 1 Title: Xinerama in Yast openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Roberto Gibertini (rgibertini) Description: YaST urgently needs an update to its monitor configuration utility. It has issues allowing resolutions set in X to be chosen for display, and it would be really, really, really nice if it had multi-monitor support. Expecially when working with proprietary drivers, the use of sax2 to configure multimonitor and xinerama is really difficult, this can be a great problem for starting users. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307485

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[New: openFATE 309048] Add keyboard configuration module in yast
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

Feature added by: Alvise C (alvise_cav) Feature #309048, revision 1 Title: Add keyboard configuration module in yast openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Alvise C (alvise_cav) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Keyboard can be configured either during installation, either with SaX2, but not from Yast UI A module Yast -> Hardware -> Keyboard should be added to bring this functionality Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: SaX2 has been removed from Yast2 UI, so there is no way left to configure a keyboard from Yast. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309048

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[openFATE 306579] make rpm licenses publically available
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 01 Dec '10

01 Dec '10

Feature added by: Juergen Weigert (jnweiger) Feature #306579, revision 1 Title: make rpm licenses publically available Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Juergen Weigert (jnweiger) Description: I'd like to offer a decoder for the rpm license strings for public. I suggest to use the website license.opernsuse.org to offer a) a searchable list of licenses showing * short name (as used in rpm packages) * Long descriptive Name * License Fulltext (by reference and or local copy) b) A decoder engine explaining in plain english what a given rpm license string means.Including dual, mix, aggregate qualification. c) a validator for rpm license strings. Use Case: customer could decipher syntax customer can access license fulltext. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306579

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[New: openFATE 309179] Completely Remove the in WindowsⓇ Installer
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 24 Nov '10

24 Nov '10

Feature added by: Carl Fletcher (caf4926) Feature #309179, revision 1 Title: Completely Remove the in WindowsⓇ Installer openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Carl Fletcher (caf4926) Description: Please for heavens sake remove the installer that can be run from inside the WindowsⓇ OS. That, or make it idiot proof and 100% dork proof. I lost count way back in 11.0 of folk who have hosed their sysytem with this installer! It needs to work, without fail or you are just giving a really bad image to openSUSE. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309179

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[New: openFATE 309618] Enable CGROUP feature in kernel
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Nov '10

22 Nov '10

Feature added by: Jörg Mayer (joergmayer) Feature #309618, revision 1 Title: Enable CGROUP feature in kernel openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Jörg Mayer (joergmayer) Description: Please enable CONFIG_CGROUP in the 11.3 kernels to make it significantly easier for interested parties to play with systemd (Link to systemd description not pasted as copy/paste doesn't seem to work with current konqueror from kde-repo). -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309618

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[New: openFATE 308461] Use new KDE branding for patterns and repositories
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

Feature added by: Todd R (TheBlackCat) Feature #308461, revision 1 Title: Use new KDE branding for patterns and repositories openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Todd R (theblackcat) Description: KDE has recently release a substantial modification to how they describe their various software projects: http://dot.kde.org/2009/11/24/repositioning-kde-brand?page=1 I think openSUSE should change their KDE patterns and pattern names to reflect this new branding. Specifically, the core KDE libraries that are needed to run KDE software should be placed in a kde-platform pattern. Similarly, the plasma desktop (and the upcoming netbook and media center variants) should be placed in a kde-worskspaces pattern. Other KDE applications should be placed in a kde-applications pattern. Going further, core, extragear, community, and playground variants of these patterns would probably be provided. For example kde-workspaces-core would provide the workspaces components shipped with a KDE software compilation (the name for a new KDE release), kde-workspaces-extragear and kde-worskpaces-playground would provide plasma packages in the official extragear and playground svn repositories, while kde-worskpaces-community would provide plasma components from third-parties such as kde-look.org. Similarly, the KDE repositories should be renamed as well. So instead of KDE4.3, it should be KDESC4.3 or KSC4.3 (to reflect KDE software compilation). KDE is strongly discouraging the use of names like "KDE 4.4" and I think we should respect that request. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308461

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[New: openFATE 308506] Adjust Wording for KDE in Installation
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

Feature added by: Klaas Freitag (kfreitag) Feature #308506, revision 1 Title: Adjust Wording for KDE in Installation openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Klaas Freitag (kfreitag) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: The KDE Project provides sample wording for distributions for installation workflows, live media and such [1]. It is aligned with the KDE Branding initiative [2]. We need to make the openSUSE installation with YaST align to the suggestions. [1] http://community.kde.org/Promo/Distribution_Communication [2] http://community.kde.org/Promo/Branding Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: We do not want to break the upstream branding. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308506

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[New: openFATE 308689] Take a look at BURG
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

Feature added by: Jakub Rusinek (liviopl) Feature #308689, revision 1 Title: Take a look at BURG openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Jakub Rusinek (liviopl) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: There's an awesome project around, to make bootloader better and not so 2009. BURG: http://code.google.com/p/burg/ . Integrated into YaST and themed well by openSUSE art guys, would be one of the biggest news in openSUSE. Next to (hopefully) KMS, Plymouth or even Splashy. Use Case: More recognizable choice, hidden advanced options (as kernels, failsafe) under each system. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: GRUB 1 is old and finally needs to be replaced. Clean GRUB 2 is a candidate, but BURG is even a better choice. Remember, that inside openSUSE clean GRUB isn't utilised, you introduced gfxboot. So BURG instead of GRUB 2 would be analogical situation. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308689

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[New: openFATE 309608] Simulations with Python: SimPy
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

Feature added by: Horst Köhler (horst_m_koehler) Feature #309608, revision 1 Title: Simulations with Python: SimPy openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Horst Köhler (horst_m_koehler) Description: SimPy is a package for easy programming of simulations in python. It uses an interesting concept of reentrant threads. It supports discrete event simulations in a simple way. The concept allows to program and analyse the timing and the dynamic systemic behavious of interacting agents. This kind of dynamic simulation is rare in the agent-based community and the SimPy approach appears to be promising. Currently there is no pre-built rpm package for openSuse, so I add this to the wishlist and for openSuse 11.3. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309608

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[New: openFATE 309590] *.bmp pictures for plasma-desktop images
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

Feature added by: Donatas Jutelis (vegdonis) Feature #309590, revision 1 Title: *.bmp pictures for plasma-desktop images openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Donatas Jutelis (vegdonis) Description: At the moment I have openSuse 11.2 64 Bit with 4.3.5 KDE (upgrade of KDE to 4.4.3 didn't fix it): When opening Desktop (folderview) Settings - Activity Settins -> choose Type Image -> choose option to browse for images. In the window that appears there is Filter field and available picture formats are *.png *.jpeg *.jpg *.xcf *.svg *.svgz *.bmp not available. If I type it manualy at the end and hit enter it lists all the bmp format images and I can select them as a wallpaper. Tough I have to do that each time I want to change images. Also Type: Slideshow -> if add folder with *.bmp pictures, thair are not shown, just an empty screen. I logged a bug with KDE 237990, bug was fixed and the fix will be included on 4.5 version. Is it possible to include the fix in the OpenSuse 11.3 release? WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1128213 (http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1128213) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309590

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[openFATE 306761] Add CouchDB
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 16 Nov '10

16 Nov '10

Feature added by: Cornelius Schumacher (cschum) Feature #306761, revision 1 Title: Add CouchDB openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Cornelius Schumacher (cschum) Description: CouchDB is a distributed document-oriented database. It will be used by Ubuntu (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Specs/Karmic/IntegratingWithUbuntuOne) for all kind of synchronized storage use case scenarios. It would be great to have CouchDB on openSUSE as well, so it can plug into this network and make use of the application support which is developed. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306761

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[openFATE 307830] KRename 4 for openSUSE 11.2
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 16 Nov '10

16 Nov '10

Feature added by: Árpád Bíró (biroa) Feature #307830, revision 1 Title: KRename 4 for openSUSE 11.2 Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Árpád Bíró (biroa) Description: It would probably be a good idea to package the newly released KRename 4.0.0 (or the latest version if a new one comes out in time) for 11.2. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307830

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[openFATE 307798] Amarok 2.2 in opensuse 11.2
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 16 Nov '10

16 Nov '10

Feature added by: Peter Gumbrell (gumb) Feature #307798, revision 1 Title: Amarok 2.2 in opensuse 11.2 Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Peter Gumbrell (gumb) Description: This is a late appeal to devs in view of the current release roadmap. I believe the possibility of updating the Amarok version to 2.2 in the forthcoming OS 11.2 release was rejected some weeks back in a KDE meeting, though I don't know the technical reason. Perhaps it introduces too many breakages, but I wondered if there was any prospect of developers reversing this decision, bearing in mind that other apps like SeaMonkey, Virtualbox have still been updated only this week? Also, considering the decision was made to include currently very buggy alpha releases of KDE4 apps like Kaffeine and K3B, the new Amarok 2.2 RC1 just appeared today and it seems the final release will therefore be out well before OS 11.2, possibly leaving openSUSE behind with its version compared to others in the glut of distros releasing around the October / November period. There are various changes and bugfixes in the 2.2 release, but I think most notably the inclusion of CD support for playing and ripping is a major feature many would benefit from, negating the need for installation of separate media playing or ripping apps. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307798

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[New: openFATE 308368] add winbind idmap feature to "Windows Domain Membership" Yast applet
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 15 Nov '10

15 Nov '10

Feature added by: Di Pe (dipe) Feature #308368, revision 1 Title: add winbind idmap feature to "Windows Domain Membership" Yast applet openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Di Pe (dipe) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: The "Windows Domain Membership" Yast applet should have a feature that allows winbind to pull the uid/gid infomation from ActiveDirectory (attributes uidNumber and gidNumber) instead of using a local counter or TDB. Besides uid/gid the shell (loginShell) and the home directory (unixHomeDirectory) can also be pulled from Active Directory. A standard smb.conf for a Linux box that is joined to ActiveDirectory via winbind looks like this: [global] workgroup = XXXXX passdb backend = tdbsam printing = cups printcap name = cups printcap cache time = 750 cups options = raw map to guest = Bad User include = /etc/samba/dhcp.conf logon path = \\%L\profiles\.msprofile logon home = \\%L\%U\.9xprofile logon drive = P: usershare allow guests = No security = ADS idmap gid = 2000-4999 idmap uid = 2000-4999 realm = XXXXX.ORG template homedir = /home/%U template shell = /bin/bash winbind offline logon = yes winbind refresh tickets = yes if winbind has the ipmap feature enabled for Active Directory, smb.conf looks like this (tested configuration) [global] workgroup = XXXXX passdb backend = tdbsam printing = cups printcap name = cups printcap cache time = 750 cups options = raw map to guest = Bad User include = /etc/samba/dhcp.conf logon path = \\%L\profiles\.msprofile logon home = \\%L\%U\.9xprofile logon drive = P: usershare allow guests = No security = ADS idmap gid = 2000-4999 idmap uid = 2000-4999 realm = XXXXX.ORG template homedir = /home/%U template shell = /bin/bash winbind offline logon = yes winbind refresh tickets = yes ;log level = 3 winbind:5 idmap:5 winbind enum users = Yes winbind enum groups = Yes winbind nss info = rfc2307 winbind use default domain = yes ;idmap domains = XXXXX #not needed in latest samba idmap config XXXXX:cache time = 1800 idmap config XXXXX:range = 5000-65000 idmap config XXXXX:backend = ad idmap config XXXXX:schema_mode = rfc2307 idmap config XXXXX:default = yes schema_mode can either be 'sfu' or 'rfc2307'. rfc2307 is known by most administrators as "Windows 2003 R2" schema. In the future "Windows 2003 R2 (or newer)" should be the default schema. 'sfu' could be called "Legacy schema (sfu)" This proposal could even be the default setup since the unix LDAP attributes in Active Directory are ignored if they are not populated. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: This feature allows for centralized uid/gid management which is essential if hundreds or thousands of computers are used in an enterprise network, particularly if nfs and cifs are used on multiple file servers. (see http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/idmapper.html) http://www.likewise.com/ seems to offer an enhanced version of this feature which strongly indicates that there is a certain demand for it. more details: http://samba.org/~obnox/presentations/sambaXP-2009/sambaxp-2009-talk-obnox-… -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308368

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[openFATE 307898] Include asterisk in opensuse
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 15 Nov '10

15 Nov '10

Feature added by: Glenn Doig (doiggl) Feature #307898, revision 1 Title: Include asterisk in opensuse openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Glenn Doig (doiggl) Description: Include asterisk in opensuse http://www.asterisk.org/support/about and http://www.asterisk.org/support/features Features Asterisk-based telephony solutions offer a rich and flexible feature set. Asterisk offers both classical PBX functionality and advanced features, and interoperates with traditional standards-based telephony systems and Voice over IP systems. Asterisk offers the advanced features that are often associated with large, high end (and high cost) proprietary PBXs. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307898

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[openFATE 307911] How to avoid errors when burn ISO
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 15 Nov '10

15 Nov '10

Feature added by: stan stan (sta931) Feature #307911, revision 1 Title: How to avoid errors when burn ISO openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: stan stan (sta931) Description: The information may be useful for anyone who burns a big ISO dowloaded from the Internet,for example from open suse sites. There are many burning programs for ISO but if you are going to burn an ISO that weights more than 4 Gb almost all of those create a lot of problems.So,if I am newly in this I had to dissolve some problems and now would be glad to give some information if anyone is interested in Use Case: I was trying to create openSUSE 11.1 DVD An image was dowloaded by mobile modem -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307911

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[New: openFATE 308455] Easy way to refresh package database
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 15 Nov '10

15 Nov '10

Feature added by: Todd R (TheBlackCat) Feature #308455, revision 1 Title: Easy way to refresh package database openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Todd R (theblackcat) Description: Currently, if you want to force a refresh of your package database from within the software management module or online update module you needto go to the configuration menu, load the repository manager module, tell it to refresh, then close the repository manager module. Having an easy way to force a refresh of the software database from within the software management module would be much more convenient. It could easily go in the "File" menu without cluttering things much, there are currently only 4 items there as it is. I know that ideally the package manager would know when to refresh what, but it doesn't always so it would be very convenient if users had a quick way to force it to. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308455

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[New: openFATE 308458] Include Google Akonadi resource package for KDE 4
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 15 Nov '10

15 Nov '10

Feature added by: Todd R (TheBlackCat) Feature #308458, revision 1 Title: Include Google Akonadi resource package for KDE 4 openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Todd R (theblackcat) Description: Since August there has been an Akonadi resource that allows KDE users to sync their google calendars with their KDE korganizer calendars and sync their google address book with their KDE kaddressbook. It is an extragear program, meaning it is hosted on the official KDE servers. However, it is not present in any of the official openSUSE KDE repositories. Considering how common use of Google calendars and gmail seems to be, I think it would be very useful to people to provide an official package for the software. Here is the release announcement: http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/4049 -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308458

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[New: openFATE 308811] add arm support
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 15 Nov '10

15 Nov '10

Feature added by: Marc collin (collinm) Feature #308811, revision 1 Title: add arm support openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Marc collin (collinm) Description: that should be nice to support arm cpu some distribution like fedora, debian, ubuntu, gentoo, support it -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308811

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