May 2010 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[New: openFATE 308289] Dedicate More third party support
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 08 Nov '10

08 Nov '10

Feature added by: Gary Pikula (shadoweva09) Feature #308289, revision 1 Title: Dedicate More third party support openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Gary Pikula (shadoweva09) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: All of the desktop Linux distributions could definitely benefit from better third party software support. The case right now is that a company may decide to dedicate resource to make their software Linux compatible, but likely will only dedicate enough resources to make it .rpm, .deb, or .tar.gz packages and nothing else because of the small market share. They also don't want their software being hosted in repository servers and keep control over distribution. I know the politics usually go that the should use our package format and our repositories, but they don't and certain reasons come up that make it impossible to do so (like Skype needing to protect their phone bills). Since they didn't use the format the user has, the user has to do all the work getting it to work and they suffer. Use Case: A user is using a distribution that uses rpm install files and needs to install commercial software to connect to their school's application server. The company that makes the software only dedicated enough resources to make the debian package. The user now has to install and learn to use special software to make the client software work. If there was a special way of handling Third party software that businesses were encouraged to use and all desktop Linux distributions supported that way of software management the users would not suffer, and business would not have to choose between which package format to allocate project funds for. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: To put an end to the second rate treatment of software that's not in repositories, make the user experience much better for people using third party software, and reduce costs for companies developing software for desktop Linux by eliminating the need to create multiple packages. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308289

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[openFATE 307787] Protection against modifying of system libraries
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 08 Nov '10

08 Nov '10

Feature added by: Mircea Kitsune (MirceaKitsune) Feature #307787, revision 1 Title: Protection against modifying of system libraries openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Mircea Kitsune (mirceakitsune) Description: A few days ago I made a mistake that caused me to brake my KDE and Linux installation. Although the fault was mine, I believe OpenSuse should have a protection against dangerous system changes or at least signal the user clearly when a change to system packages could damage important components. What I did was upgrading Pidgin messenger from version 2.5.1 to 2.6.2, but selecting the 32bit version from the repositories instead of the 64bit one (the installed 2.5.1 was the correct 64bit version). I didn't realize it and Yast replaced KDE and system libraries with 32bit versions, ripping the install apart. OpenSuse did not notify me that I would replace and brake system components, and everything appeared like a normal installation. Although I learned from my mistake and should have better reviewed the list of changes, I believe OpenSuse should have not allowed such a change rather than letting it seem like a normal installation. This is dangerous for new users who may not be aware of such dangers and only learn after braking their first OpenSuse install. Test Case: On a 64bit version of OpenSuse 11.1 KDE4 which has Pidgin 2.5.1-x.x-x86_64 installed: 1 - Open Yast -> Software Management, and add the following repository in Configuration -> Repositories: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/Factory/openSUSE_11.1/ 2 - Refresh it then return to the search screen and search for Pidgin. Select pidgin from the packet list and in the Versions tab below select "2.6.2-x.x-i586 from gnome-repo" and click Accept. 3 - A conflict window will appear, mentioning you can either take some actions to resolve the conflict, not install pidgin, or ignore some of its dependencies. Under "Following actions will be done" there is a "369 more" list which includes important system libs that would be changed with 32bit versions. 4 - If the user is a Linux beginner and has commonly avoided such conflict windows, he may not give enough attention to this nor realize he has selected the i586 version and choose to replace the libraries. Once installation is done KDE and Linux core components are broken and the OpenSuse installation damaged. This is an example screenshot (I have the correct version of 2.6.2 already installed, consider it's 2.5.1-x86_64 at the top): http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/9106/installg.jpg -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307787

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[openFATE 307551] Booting Live OS from a USB drive
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 08 Nov '10

08 Nov '10

Feature added by: Ben Metzner (Bman22) Feature #307551, revision 1 Title: Booting Live OS from a USB drive openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Ben Metzner (bman22) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: I think it would be great to allow for a live session to be run via a usb key. Almost every live distro i know supports it as a feature, and even a lot of non-live-specific distro's have the option to run live from a usb key. If this could be incorperated in 11.2, or 11.3, it would be great. Just providing an ISO file to image to a usb drive would be great, seeing as the current images won't boot from a usb key. Use Case: Somebody who wants to be able to easily carry around multiple linux distrobutions, and boot them from a usb drive, or memory card reader in their computer. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: I want this specifically so i can image some sd cards with my favorite distro's (OpenSuSE obviously being one of those), and just reboot the computer with a different sd card when i want a different distro, instead of having to carry around multiple cd drives, as well as an external cd player for my netbook. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307551

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[openFATE 306504] LiveCD: Migrate LiveCD desktop settings to installed system
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 08 Nov '10

08 Nov '10

Feature added by: Jakub Rusinek (liviopl) Feature #306504, revision 1 Title: LiveCD: Migrate LiveCD desktop settings to installed system openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Jakub Rusinek (liviopl) Description: After successful installation, when finishing session, user should be asked to migrate his settings to the installed system. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306504

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[openFATE 306475] modify Firefox' plugin finder service to search and install from openSUSE repos
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 08 Nov '10

08 Nov '10

Feature added by: Wolfgang Rosenauer (wrosenauer) Feature #306475, revision 1, last change by Title: modify Firefox' plugin finder service to search and install from openSUSE repos openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Wolfgang Rosenauer (wrosenauer) Description: Firefox' plugin finder service searches for missing plugins at mozilla.org and can't provide useful things usually for Linux. The plugin finder service should be improved to know about plugins available for openSUSE and should invoke an installer on request. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306475

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[New: openFATE 308883] Astronaut OpenVistA/WorldVista port
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 07 Nov '10

07 Nov '10

Feature added by: Juan Gonzalez-Piloto (juangp) Feature #308883, revision 1 Title: Astronaut OpenVistA/WorldVista port openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Juan Gonzalez-Piloto (juangp) Description: I would like to see a port of the Redhat RPMs (http://astronautvista.org and http://astronaut.sourceforge.net) for this important Electronic Medical/Health Record (EM/HR) program for openSUSE 11.3 and for Medical CD Project (http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE-Medical) This is an Public Domain software used worldwide championed by the U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs. As the most popular EM/HR application in the world, OpenSUSE should look seriously into porting this. Currently, the RPMs do not install properly on OpenSUSE due to the proprietary Redhat RPMs available (adduser vice useradd, openssl vice openssl-server and iptables). -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308883

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[New: openFATE 308514] Start OS xyz buttons
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Nov '10

05 Nov '10

Feature added by: alles Quarks (allesquarks) Feature #308514, revision 1 Title: Start OS xyz buttons openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: alles Quarks (allesquarks) Description: In previous Versions of Opensuse in KDE 3.x in Kicker there were buttons to start other OS that were known to grub. Klicking one of these items, grub bootet directly into that system. Since kde4 people like me, who boot to suse by default, have to wait for shutdown and the grub menu otherwise booting into suse again. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308514

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[openFATE 306443] change parted to use Hardware suggested sectors per track
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Nov '10

05 Nov '10

Feature added by: Dean Giles (dgiles) Feature #306443, revision 1, last change by Title: change parted to use Hardware suggested sectors per track openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Dean Giles (dgiles) Description: parted creates partitions which are automatically assigned 63 sectors per track. Hardware, such as HP raid devices, advertise that they want 32 sectors per track. It advertises that through ioctl HDIO_GETGEO. fdisk can utilize the hardware reported sectors per track. parted needs to be changed to do the same. See bug # 501152. Dean -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306443

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[openFATE 308077] Suse Icon
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Nov '10

05 Nov '10

Feature added by: Kirk Sanders (mithedhel) Feature #308077, revision 1 Title: Suse Icon openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Kirk Sanders (mithedhel) Description: Why doesn't opensuse have the lizard icon on the SLAB button in gnome when it does on the KDE variant? This may help us Gnome users feel less descriminated against. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308077

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[New: openFATE 309272] ad X11:lxde into commuty repo list
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Nov '10

05 Nov '10

Feature added by: andrea florio (anubisg1) Feature #309272, revision 1 Title: ad X11:lxde into commuty repo list openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: andrea florio (anubisg1) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Since LXDE is now into suse 11.3 i think that is mandatory and easy to fix. I ask to add X11:lxde repo into the list of community repos available into YaST Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: because will be much easier to keep up to date your LXDE desktop without searching the web for the repo, and mostly because, all other DE have that too (including xfce) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309272

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