October 2011 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[New: openFATE 311074] Enhance Education Repository
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 13 Jan '12

13 Jan '12

Feature added by: Lars Vogdt (lrupp) Feature #311074, revision 1 Title: Enhance Education Repository Hackweek VI: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Lars Vogdt (lrupp) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Right now, openSUSE have quite few scientific and educational packages. To give openSUSE more presence on universities and research centers at "final user" level, it would be necessary to review the current packages in the Education and science repositories and check for updates and new packages that are currently not on the list. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: The Education and Science Sector is one of the most important sectors to reach new and enthusiastic users. We should offer a bunch of applications for this users fulfilling all their needs and as result, we can increase the number of openSUSE users in a very special, but also interesting and important area. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311074

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[New: openFATE 312338] Add BlueGriffon web editor to the repositories
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 08 Jan '12

08 Jan '12

Feature added by: Ricardo Martins (rikhard) Feature #312338, revision 1 Title: Add BlueGriffon web editor to the repositories Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Neutral Requested by: Ricardo Martins (rikhard) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: BlueGriffon is a relatively young project, but it does seem to be very good when compared to some of the other open source tools, not to mention that it's still a very active project. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312338

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[New: openFATE 308473] Context menu to switch between sheets
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Jan '12

05 Jan '12

Feature added by: Kohei Yoshida (kohei_yoshida) Feature #308473, revision 1 Title: Context menu to switch between sheets Requested by: Kohei Yoshida (kohei_yoshida) Description: In Excel (see the attached screenshot), right-clicking on the sheet arrows brings up the context menu. Supporting a similar context-menu in Calc would be beneficial as well. Especially when there are lots and lots of sheets in a single document, it's not very convenient to go through all those sheets to get to the right one. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308473

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[openFATE 307522] Improove font rendering on openSUSE
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 04 Jan '12

04 Jan '12

Feature added by: Andres Linares (satoshi-takao) Feature #307522, revision 1 Title: Improove font rendering on openSUSE openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Andres Linares (satoshi-takao) Description: It would be great if font rendering in openSUSE looks like Mac OS X's or Windows' with Cleartype. Ubuntu has improoved it a little. I think this could be important for openSUSE interface. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307522

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[New: openFATE 308877] Real time Kernel support
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 30 Dec '11

30 Dec '11

Feature added by: A Dean Caulfield (adc6r) Feature #308877, revision 1 Title: Real time Kernel support Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: A Dean Caulfield (adc6r) Description: Please add RT Kerenl support to all standard distributions add the option to the install program to change to or install kernel fresh or update without changing version of OpenSuse -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308877

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[openFATE 307416] add low latency kernel to OSS repo
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 30 Dec '11

30 Dec '11

Feature added by: Sergio Gabriel (Dahool) Feature #307416, revision 1 Title: add low latency kernel to OSS repo Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Sergio Gabriel (dahool) Description: Having rt flavour kernel would be very useful for people like me who use linux for making music, today I have to reboot with ubuntustudio everytime I need to use this. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307416

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[New: openFATE 309587] Easier SUSE bugreporting
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 16 Dec '11

16 Dec '11

Feature added by: Michal Vyskocil (mvyskocil) Feature #309587, revision 1 Title: Easier SUSE bugreporting Requested by: Michal Vyskocil (mvyskocil) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Last hackweek I hacked up the susereport [1] a port of Debian's reportbug script. Susereport deals with a BuildService - can find the assignee from package/project metadata. It basically works, but needs to be tested more than is. So my hackweek project will be test it and release it! And also find some nice to have features (like automatic information gathering in some cases, or so). [1] http://gitorious.org/+opensuse-developers/opensuse/susereport [2] http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Novell bugzilla is not nice - you have a zilions projects/products and you just have to fill a bug against openSUSE. Existence of BuildService complicates it, you need to know from which project you have a buggy package and who maintain that crap ... susereport solve all of those questions to one - Why there are so much questions, isn't there any easier way? -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309587

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[New: openFATE 308353] get rid of mandb cron job
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 15 Dec '11

15 Dec '11

Feature added by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Feature #308353, revision 1 Title: get rid of mandb cron job openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Description: /etc/cron.daily/suse-do_mandb runs every day to create the man page indexes and the whois databae even if no package was installed. This exercises the hard disk quite a bit. A smarter solution would be to update the index and whois db each time a manpage gets added or removed, just like it's done with info pages. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308353

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[New: openFATE 310263] By default use a functioning version of Java
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 14 Dec '11

14 Dec '11

Feature added by: Andrew Joakimsen (joak0) Feature #310263, revision 1 Title: By default use a functioning version of Java openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Andrew Joakimsen (joak0) Description: The "OpenJDK" version of Java is installed by default in openSUSE. This version of Java does not enjoy widespread compatibility. I have yet to find a site that properly works with this Java implemenaton and have promptly replaced it with a working Jave implemenation -- Sun. The installation of the working Java plugin should be via the same mechanism that is employed to install Flash plugin upon the first update to the system (pullin-flash-player package). Until the point in time it can be demonstrated that the OpenJDK implementation can work with >= 95% of Java applets encountered in "the real world" it should not be included by default in OpenSUSE. I think it is a way better out-of-box experiance for users to have to install Java (just like in Windows) vs. appear to have Java but "Java is broken in openSUSE" I doubt many non-technical users can understand the difference. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310263

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[New: openFATE 311133] Heroku like solution for SUSE Studio
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Dec '11

12 Dec '11

Feature added by: Flavio Castelli (flavio_castelli) Feature #311133, revision 1 Title: Heroku like solution for SUSE Studio Hackweek VI: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Neutral Requested by: Flavio Castelli (flavio_castelli) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Creating an appliance to run a specific rails appliacation can be quite annoying. There are extra repositories to add, package dependencies to satisfy, a database to setup, apache and passenger to setup, overlay files to add and so on. Cloning an appliance like this (http://susegallery.com/a/CZ0T0D/rails-in-a-box) can save some time, but some efforts are still required. IMHO the easiest solution to deploy a rails app in the cloud is Heroku (http://heroku.com/) . My hackweek project (temporarly called 'Dister') aims to provide a command line tool similar to Heroku's one. This is a list of the possible commands I want to implement. dister create [base_system] [template] base_system and template are optional parameters. If base_system is not set dister will use latest version of openSUSE supported by Studio. If template is not set dister will use the JeOS template. dister push pushes the current rails code to studio dister rake db:migrate performs all the db migrations locally and uploads a dump of the db to Studio dister add format <format> adds the specified format dister rm format <format> removes the specified format dister packages add <package> adds package to the appliance dister packages rm <package> removes package from the appliance dister build builds the appliance dister download downloads the appliance locally dister testdrive boots the appliance inside of testdrive and returns SUSE Studio is going to support direct deployment of ec2 appliances to Amazon. Supporting this feature inside of my hackweek project would make terribly easy to push rails appliances into the cloud. Test Case: * User checkouts his rails app from git/svn/whaterver * User creates a new appliance using: dister create * dister figures out which database is used by the rails appliance and adds all the required packages. * dister figures out which gems are required by the rails app and installes them from rpm or from gem files. * User updates a dump of his db using the command dister rake db:migrate * dister configures apache passenger automatically * User requires an extra package using the command dister package add ImageMagick * User enables VMware format dister add format vmx * User builds the appliance dister build * User tests the appliance inside of testdrive dister testdrive * User downloads the appliance dister download Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Attract more rails developers, create more appliances. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311133

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