October 2011 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[New: openFATE 310771] Please update NTFS-3G
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 10 Oct '11

10 Oct '11

Feature added by: Carlo Strata (carlo_strata) Feature #310771, revision 1 Title: Please update NTFS-3G Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Carlo Strata (carlo_strata) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: I think it is time to update ntfs-3g packages here http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/filesystems/ The latest stable version is ntfs-3g-2010.10.2, released on October 3, 2010, as you could see here http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/ We are now two or three years old on 11.3 or 11.2, respectively. I note some trouble with UTF-8 file names and other things. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: We are now two or three years old on 11.3 or 11.2, respectively. I note some trouble with UTF-8 file names and other things. If you see the history log from our OBS versions you see because! ;-) http://www.tuxera.com/community/release-history/ Many and many people could take a lot of advantages with this upgrade. Thank you very much. Carlo -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310771

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[New: openFATE 311337] Add docky to openSUSE
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 10 Oct '11

10 Oct '11

Feature added by: Vincent Untz (vuntz) Feature #311337, revision 1 Title: Add docky to openSUSE openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Vincent Untz (vuntz) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: It's currently living in Mono:Community:Do. I guess we could move it to GNOME:Apps. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311337

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[New: openFATE 312691] Package dbus-c++
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 10 Oct '11

10 Oct '11

Feature added by: Vincent Untz (vuntz) Feature #312691, revision 1 Title: Package dbus-c++ Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Vincent Untz (vuntz) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/dbus-cplusplus/ This provides C++ bindings for dbus. This is an optional dependency for gnote. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312691

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[New: openFATE 312860] Multiple monitor improvements (desktop per screen)
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 07 Oct '11

07 Oct '11

Feature added by: Lubos Lunak (llunak) Feature #312860, revision 1 Title: Multiple monitor improvements (desktop per screen) Hackweek VII: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Lubos Lunak (llunak) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: The aim of this hackweek project is to improve work with multiple monitor setups. The main two areas are: - Fix problems that show in such setup. - Make it possible to have one virtual desktop assigned to one screen, instead of the current way of having each virtual desktop span all screens. This will make screens more independent and hopefully easier to use. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312860

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[openFATE 307220] Make YaST Software Management settings persistant
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 06 Oct '11

06 Oct '11

Feature added by: Dean Hilkewich (deanjo13) Feature #307220, revision 1 Title: Make YaST Software Management settings persistant openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Dean Hilkewich (deanjo13) Description: One thing I would really like to see in 11.2 is having YaST's Software Management module retain the view selections of whether or not to show the devel and / or the debug packages. In 11.1 you have to set it upon every load up of the module. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307220

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[New: openFATE 312853] make nfs-client setup in YaST to modify /etc/fstab
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 06 Oct '11

06 Oct '11

Feature added by: Steffen Eibicht (steffen13) Feature #312853, revision 1 Title: make nfs-client setup in YaST to modify /etc/fstab openSUSE 12.1: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Steffen Eibicht (steffen13) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Hi, when setting up a NFS-Client in YaST, it does not modify the /etc/fstab. So it always throws an error message "shares cannot be mounted from /etc/fstab" after one has finished the setup of the shared folders. So in the current state, the user has to modify the /etc/fstab manually. But when you set up the nfs client in YaST, you already have provided all information to the system and it could easily put all this into the /etc/fstab file. So if we had such a function, even if it just was a checkbox "write to /etc/fstab" so that experienced users or the ones who want to do something advanced, have the choice not to modify /etc/fstab, this would be great. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: because it would make life easier and YaST an even greater tool. And with that, openSUSE an even more awesome distro :-) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312853

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[openFATE 305859] Make installation history accessible from Yast GUI
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Oct '11

05 Oct '11

Feature added by: Atri Bhattacharya (badshah400) Feature #305859, revision 1, last change by Title: Make installation history accessible from Yast GUI openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Atri Bhattacharya (badshah400) Description: As there is now (since openSUSE 11.1) a way to access the history of installed packages and their dependencies, it would be very useful if this history could be accessed from the Yast GUI. In the present implementation, zypper saves the history in a file (/var/log/zypp/history) which is very obscure. The history thus shown from yast should be able to show official-updates and non-official upgrades in different categories. Use Case: 1. Install new software, software not working (or not liked), look-up history start yast, look-up history, uninstall software and installed dependencies. 2. Online update, something goes wrong (upgraded software not working or something), look-up history to see recent updates and revert (all from yast). -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305859

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[openFATE 306982] Create an open SLES
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 03 Oct '11

03 Oct '11

Feature added by: Stephen Shaw (decriptor) Feature #306982, revision 1 Title: Create an open SLES Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Stephen Shaw (decriptor) Description: It would be great to have something like centos but that is based off of SLES. This would give people the abililty to use openSLES (for example) and move over to SLES if needed. I believe it would help to grow our user base in the enterprise as well by allowing small companies to start and grow and later move to a supported model. I don't think we would loss customers as these are the people that probably wouldn't be buying licenses in the first place. As they grow this could completely change and they would be well positioned to buy support from Novell. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306982

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[openFATE 305877] Popularity contest
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Oct '11

02 Oct '11

Feature changed by: Jedi Beeftrix (Jedibeeftrix) Feature #305877, revision 46 Title: Popularity contest openSUSE-11.2: Rejected by Stephan Kulow (coolo) reject date: 2009-09-07 13:57:05 reject reason: No update, too late for 11.2 - and for the future I would rather see it integrated into smolt Priority Requester: Important Projectmanager: Desirable openSUSE-11.3: Rejected by Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) reject date: 2010-11-04 14:42:00 reject reason: Not done. Priority Requester: Desirable openSUSE Distribution: Evaluation by engineering manager Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Vladimir Nadvornik (nadvornik) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: We need a feedback about packages that are preferred by users and actively used. Debian already has a tool named Popularity contest (popcon) * reusing popcon will give us results that are directly comparable with Debian and Ubuntu * packagers team can take care of the package * we need a configuration dialog in YaST that is visible enough * we need a server infrastructure on opensuse.org. (There are certain privacy issues, see Debian FAQ for details) References: http://en.opensuse.org/BrainStorming_Prague#We_don.27t_know_which_packages_… http://popcon.debian.org/FAQ http://popcon.debian.org/ http://popcon.ubuntu.com/ Discussion: #1: Michal Vyskocil (mvyskocil) (2009-02-20 12:56:06) The pupularity-contest executable is a simple Perl script, which should be ported to rpm (replacing of dpkg calls by appropiate rpm alternative should be enough). #2: Pavol Rusnak (prusnak) (2009-03-11 15:53:13) (reply to #1) Replacing of dpkg calls with rpm is a no-go, because of the transactions in RPM. I started to work on a rewrite, will post results soon ... #3: Marek Stopka (m4r3k) (2009-03-13 09:28:08) (reply to #2) And here is a result... :-) http://stick.gk2.sk/blog/2009/03/popcorn-popularity-contest-for-rpm/ #4: Jay Mistry (zmdmw52) (2009-03-15 15:36:25) The software equivalent of Smolts Hardware profiler. Results can be uploaded to a dedicated website (such as is for Smolts- http://www.smolts.org/) so that users can see the relative weight/popularity of various commonly-used applications. #7: Carlos Gonçalves (cgoncalves) (2009-07-25 19:03:58) (reply to #4) There is a GSOC project (http://socghop.appspot.com/student_project/show/google/gsoc2009/gentoo/t124…) which is addressing this (Smolt) feature to Gentoo, though the author has been coding this aswell to Debian-based distros and more recently considering RPM distros too. I've been working with him on the client integration since I'm its author, and from my side all I can say is that Smolt sooner or later will be addressing this feature, too, but won't be ready in time for openSUSE 11.2 since feature/version freeze is next week (July 31). #5: T. J. Brumfield (enderandrew) (2009-06-13 21:16:54) During install, there can be a simple checkbox such as "Share hardware/software details with openSUSE servers for profiling." #6: Stephan Kulow (coolo) (2009-06-24 11:29:15) first we need the package in and someone to maintain the server or contact debian if they host other distros too. #9: 6tr6tr 6tr6tr (6tr6tr) (2010-10-01 20:16:28) I would actually prefer that things not just have one ranking but: 1. Trustworthiness 2. Privacy 3. Reliability/Uptime/Speed 4. Popularity I think those are all important and very different requirements. #10: Ionuț Arțăriși (mapleoin) (2011-03-31 13:31:57) Is there anyone still working on this? AFAIU there is more work to be done on the server. If that is correct, I might be able to help. #11: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) (2011-07-25 15:39:03) (reply to #10) I'm not aware that anybody is working on this. If you are interested, please go ahead and move this forward. #12: Klaus Ollesch (klaus_o) (2011-10-02 15:41:42) hallo, to get such normal user opinions may help to implement needed programs for normal users. Normal users are interested to update without problems. They are not able to repair their system with every suse update. If the nvidia driver fails, when virtual box does not run ore google earth does not work you can forget the rest. Such a feedback from normal user is needed if you want to get a bigger community. Just now you loose one member because of too many continous problems for a standard user. + #13: Jedi Beeftrix (jedibeeftrix) (2011-10-02 22:19:23) + presumably this is something Appstream can deal with? -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305877

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[New: openFATE 309731] Perl based wine configurator for games
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Oct '11

02 Oct '11

Feature added by: Alexander Orlovskyy (aorlovskyy) Feature #309731, revision 1 Title: Perl based wine configurator for games Requested by: Alexander Orlovskyy (aorlovskyy) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: The idea is to create perl application which can edit wine config files for following purpose: Sometimes the default wine configuration is not suitable to run windows games (more info on http://appdb.winehq.org/) In most cases the user need to edit manually wine config files, well thats should be solved through wine configurator. For testing purpose i chose 2 games: Starcraft and Civilization IV The result should be a one click solution, which edit wine config files , so that it possible to use windows games without any additional configuration. following help needed: Gui : gtk2-perl wine: basic info how to handle wine config files. testing : ;) Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: It will help new openSUSE users to use Linux for Windows games! -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309731

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