June 2010 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[New: openFATE 310022] Improve one-click install experience in GNOME
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 21 Mar '11

21 Mar '11

Feature added by: Vincent Untz (vuntz) Feature #310022, revision 1 Title: Improve one-click install experience in GNOME openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Vincent Untz (vuntz) Description: Garrett did some great mockup that we should implement. See http://linuxart.com/log/archives/2010/06/21/one-click-part-2/ -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310022

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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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[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 309693] Banshee - Improved ipod support
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 08 Mar '11

08 Mar '11

Feature added by: Alan McGovern (alan_mcgovern) Feature #309693, revision 1 Title: Banshee - Improved ipod support Requested by: Alan McGovern (alan_mcgovern) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Banshee currently uses podsleuth to interoperate with ipods. This solution does not support the encryption and obfustication on newer firmwares thus making it useless for newer ipods. The aim of this hack is to implement an alternative ipod addin based on libgpod. Use Case: Your friend comes over with his ipod, you plug it in and *bam*, it doesn't work. Or how about you upgrade to the latest firmware to gain new features/bugfixes and *bam*, your ipod stops working with banshee. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: You want this to work! -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309693

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