July 2010 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[openFATE 307482] Alien on Opensuse DVD
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Feature added by: Mircea Kitsune (MirceaKitsune) Feature #307482, revision 1 Title: Alien on Opensuse DVD openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Neutral Requested by: Mircea Kitsune (mirceakitsune) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: The Alien package converter would be a useful application to include on the Opensuse DVD, for easy installing on offline systems and including among other important tools that come with the distro (if licences allow distribution with Opensuse). Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Some Linux programs may not come with a .rpm installer. I believe portability and easy installation of software is important in any OS. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307482

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[New: openFATE 308604] native multitouch x11 support
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

Feature added by: cristian díaz (moldavio) Feature #308604, revision 1 Title: native multitouch x11 support openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: cristian díaz (moldavio) Description: native multitouch x11 support -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308604

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[New: openFATE 308457] New notification theme
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

Feature added by: Vincent Untz (vuntz) Feature #308457, revision 1 Title: New notification theme openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Vincent Untz (vuntz) Description: We use a theme for notifications that is a patched upstream theme. But it has some issues, unfortunately (because of its fixed width, some text is cut). And it doesn't look that good. It's probably worth investing some time at looking at the themes other distros are using (like Fedora), and see if this can be moved upstream, so we can use it. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308457

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[New: openFATE 309851] Support definition of file provides in prjconf
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 20 Aug '10

20 Aug '10

Feature added by: Adrian Schröter (adrianSuSE) Feature #309851, revision 1 Title: Support definition of file provides in prjconf Buildservice: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Adrian Schröter (adriansuse) Developer: (Novell) Description: Support manual definition of file provides in prjconf. This can be used to solve missing build or runtime dependencies. FileProvides: /path/foo package1 package2 package3 -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309851

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[openFATE 306571] Make project and package maintainers easily accessible
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Aug '10

12 Aug '10

Feature added by: Susanne Oberhauser (froh) Feature #306571, revision 1 Title: Make project and package maintainers easily accessible Buildservice: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Susanne Oberhauser (froh) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: obs automatically creates aliases package-$package@... , project-$project@... , maybe @hermes.opensuse.org . The mail should get a additional subject tag [pkg:$package] ... or [prj:$project] ... , and is Cc: ed to o-factory(a)o.o with this tag. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Currently it's a pita to reach package maintainers, either for the whole developer community on factory (because the mails are private and not archived) or for the maintainers (as they drown in the signal / noise ration on factory. Discussion: #1: Susanne Oberhauser (froh) (2009-06-25 14:46:16) Caution is needed to avoid spam What strategies do we have for this? can we benefit from the spam filtering that's done for o-factory@... ? #2: Susanne Oberhauser (froh) (2009-06-25 14:52:39) How do we deal with non o-factory@... subscribers? I see two alternatives: Block them from using the aliases (with a corresponding automatic reply). Or allow the posts, as they come from hermes.o.o --- and make hermes deal smartly with replies, e.g. by appropriately adding the original autor of the message to the bounced message. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306571

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[New: openFATE 309086] Update to latest version automatically in one click
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 11 Aug '10

11 Aug '10

Feature added by: Daniele Granata (trueneo) Feature #309086, revision 1 Title: Update to latest version automatically in one click openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Daniele Granata (trueneo) Description: Right now we have to subscribe a lot of repos to keep our system up to date to the latest stable release, OpenOffice:Stable, Firefox:Stable, KDE4 is a pain! . I would like to lose a little in stability but a unique way to keep my openSuse in synch with te latest release. The idea is to create a "intermediate stability level", if I choose this level my system will gets all the latest update via "zypper up" or the update applet, no repos to subscribe to, no "change vendor issues". -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309086

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[openFate 305267] Installation using Orca (screen reader) to Improve Accessibility
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Feature added by: Lukas Ocilka <locilka(a)novell.com> Feature #305267, revision 1, last change by Title: Installation using Orca (screen reader) to Improve Accessibility openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Darragh Ó Héiligh <d(a)digitaldarragh.com> Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Original title: Accessibility for installation could be automated with better results. Users can currently press F9 at the boot screen to hear the boot options spoken. THis is a fantastic new feature and is one that OpenSuSE is the first to add. For this you should be very proud. However, I would ask that you further build upon this success by recognising that accessibility at the boot menu has been enabled and automatically start the Orca screen reader with also setting gnome accessibility to enabled. One further consideration should be taken into account. To enable Orca to access the installation screen, Orca must be run as root. However, if Orca is run as root, the rest of the desktop is not accessible due to permissioning issues. Therefore, the installation should be run automatically if the f9 key si pressed. Note, a similar feature excluding the accessible boot menu has also been added to Ubuntu 8.04. Note that they also have a key press (F5) to automatically enable assistive technologies for installation on their live CD. References: See bnc #417874 (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=417874) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305267

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[New: openFATE 309732] Add local caching support for CIFS (network file system)
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 09 Aug '10

09 Aug '10

Feature added by: Suresh Jayaraman (sjayaraman) Feature #309732, revision 1 Title: Add local caching support for CIFS (network file system) Requested by: Suresh Jayaraman (sjayaraman) Description: Linux kernel2.6.30 added support for FS-Cache which is a cache layer for networking filesystems. With FS-Cache and other caching backends (CacheFiles, Cache-FS) infrastructure in place, data from the networked filesystems can be cached on the disk, thereby speeding up operations. This is very useful in case of slow networks. Some of the network filesystems like AFS and NFS already supports FSCache. This feature is created to add support for CIFS (Common Internet File System). -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309732

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[openFATE 307985] MozillaSunbird-devel
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 06 Aug '10

06 Aug '10

Feature added by: Henrik Kaare Poulsen (kaarposoft) Feature #307985, revision 1 Title: MozillaSunbird-devel Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Henrik Kaare Poulsen (kaarposoft) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Development package with header files for MozillaSunbird needed Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Needed to build mozilla-sync plugin for OpenSync -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307985

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[New: openFATE 310160] Fix the link on the homepage of openFATE.
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 03 Aug '10

03 Aug '10

Feature added by: Genix Info (genixinfo) Feature #310160, revision 1 Title: Fix the link on the homepage of openFATE. openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Genix Info (genixinfo) Description: Fix the link on the homepage of openFATE. OpenFATE's homepage ( https://features.opensuse.org/ (../) ) has to fix that part, because the link that now is wrong: Read more about openFATE in the wiki: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenFATE (http://en.opensuse.org/OpenFATE) The truth is this one: Read more about openFATE in the wiki: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Openfate (http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Openfate) This occurred, for changes made to the new site of openSUSE Linux ( http://en.opensuse.org/Main_Page (http://en.opensuse.org/Main_Page) ). -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310160

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