June 2010 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[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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[New: openFATE 310027] Dependencies should be installed when RPM is clicked.
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 16 Nov '10

16 Nov '10

Feature added by: Shawn Rogers (67GTA) Feature #310027, revision 1 Title: Dependencies should be installed when RPM is clicked. openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Shawn Rogers (67gta) Description: EXAMPLE: I download abc.rpm. I click on Foo.rpm. Foo.rpm depends on Foo_data.rpm. Foo_data.rpm is available in the repos, but is not installed. I have to manually install Foo_data.rpm, and then click on Foo.rpm. Clicking on an RPM package should call zypper to pull in dependencies and satisfy Foo.rpm. Debian already does this with gdebi. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310027

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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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