July 2011 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[New: openFATE 308357] Replacement for Sax2 in 11.3
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 11 Nov '11

11 Nov '11

Feature added by: Tara Ikeda (TaraIkeda) Feature #308357, revision 1 Title: Replacement for Sax2 in 11.3 openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Tara Ikeda (taraikeda) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: We need a replacement for sax2 in 11.3, as a safety measure for when auto configuration fails to detect certain monitors/keyboards/mice. Relying on the Desktop Environment for this is not the best idea, as some DE's or window managers dont provide config tools for what you might need to work. So I propose instead of relying on xrandr, Hal, devicekit or whatever there should be a GUI to configure graphics cards, mice, and keyboards without depending on the DE or a WM to provide a tool for the end user. I mention this as I have had KDE 4 fail to detect my resolutions and sometimes keyboard, luckily SAX2 is there to aid me but if its going the way of the dodo then I propose a relacement tool so that the end user wont have to make a xorg.conf and spend some time setting it up. It takes skill to make edits to a xorg.conf file and one can easily mess it up So having a helpful GUI tool is needed sometimes. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Because of new users mainly, because we dont want them to install openSUSE and have it fail to detect their proper monitor resolution and default to a much smaller one. The goal here is ease of use, but also to have a a safety net just in case. With openSUSE being more geared toward KDE a tool like Sax2 becomes even more needed. KDE4's monitor detection tool sucks, its always given me headaches in Ubuntu, in Mandriva, in many other KDE4 distros. It has no feature to remember monitor settings, nor does it do a good job with enabling my resolution. But i am not doing this just for me, many others have issues with KDE4's monitor tool -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308357

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[New: openFATE 312275] automated bugreporting - whole system
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 04 Nov '11

04 Nov '11

Feature added by: melchiaros melchiaros (melchiaros) Feature #312275, revision 1 Title: automated bugreporting - whole system openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: melchiaros melchiaros (melchiaros) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: It is a nasty jop to report bugs to the openSUSE bugzilla by hand. A automated bugreporting for the whole openSUSE OS like in KDE (drkonqi) would be great. It would save time for the user, improve the frequency of bugreports for the project(I guess many bugs donÂ´t find the way to bugzilla), and a coupling to a stacktrace or logfiles would improve the quality of the bugreports in the openSUSE bugzilla. Good for the user, good for the quality of openSUSE, not so good for a developer(->many work:) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312275

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[openFATE 306578] Zypper integration with BuildService
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

Feature added by: Brent McConnell (everettemcconnell) Feature #306578, revision 1 Title: Zypper integration with BuildService Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Brent McConnell (everettemcconnell) Description: Integrate zypper with Buildservice so that users can install packages from BuildService directly from zypper without having to leave the commandline. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306578

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[New: openFATE 310046] yast2 progress report when downloadinadvance is set
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

Feature added by: Guillaume van Baalen (gvanbaalen) Feature #310046, revision 1 Title: yast2 progress report when downloadinadvance is set openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Guillaume van Baalen (gvanbaalen) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: This is a feature request for yast2. As of now, when the option "downloadinadvance" is set for package installation, the "perform installation" screen does not report correctly how the overall installation is progressing. What I mean is that there are two progress bars, one showing how much of the current package is being downloaded/installed, and one supposedly showing the overall process. So far, the "overall" progress bar stays at 0% while packages are being downloaded, and shows progress only when actually installing packages once they are all downloaded. I guess it shouldn't be too hard to have the "overall" progress bar go to 50% while packages are downloaded, then going from 50% to 100% while they are installed. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: I want this because we have no clue right now as to whether the installation will take seconds or minutes/hours... -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310046

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[New: openFATE 309205] Remove old kernel package only after the new one successfully booted
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 25 Oct '11

25 Oct '11

Feature added by: Michal Marek (michal-m) Feature #309205, revision 1 Title: Remove old kernel package only after the new one successfully booted openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Martin Barry (supine) Description: When the kernel package is upgraded the old one is immediately removed leaving the currently running kernel with no modules. This breaks anything that requires modules until the user has an opportunity to reboot. The removal of the old package should be delayed till the system is rebooted into the new kernel. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Kernel package is upgraded 2. Try to run tcpdump Actual Results: 3. Get error about "interface not supported" and "unknown address family" 4. Reboot into new kernel 5. Try again to run tcpdump with identical arguements 6. tcpdump works as expected Expected Results: 3. tcpdump works as expected even before system is booted into new kernel Relations: - Kernel upgrade removes modules of running kernel subtly breaking the system until rebooted into new kernel (novell/bugzilla/id: 590496) https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=590496 Discussion: #1: unknown user (2010-03-23 14:38:59) This is another symptom of needing the ability to clean up an old kernel after a successful boot. #2: (michal-m) (2010-03-23 16:02:38) (reply to #1) Let alone defining "successful boot" would be tough, but let's say if the user has logged in, there is at least some success (but e.g. the network might still not be working though). This would be the kernel packaging part. Then there would need to be some way to tell the package manager "now it's time to remove packages x,y and z, ask the user for confirmation either via the update applet, or as soon as the package manager is started". IMO it would be a nice feature, but I have no idea how difficult the zypp/yast/updater applet part would be. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309205

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[New: openFATE 309702] Make NetworkManager better
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 18 Oct '11

18 Oct '11

Feature added by: Li Bin (BinLi) Feature #309702, revision 1 Title: Make NetworkManager better Requested by: Li Bin (binli) Description: There are several features in NetworkManager, I wanna focus one or two * VPN autoconnect (?) ( bgo #349151 (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349151) , bgo #560471 (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=560471) ) * Interface bonding support ( bgo #540995 (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=540995) ) * Bridge interface support ( bgo #546197 (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546197) ) * Local caching nameserver support * PPPoE over WiFi (http://live.gnome.org/WiFi) support ( bgo #559134 (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=559134) ) * Connection time and traffic tracking ( bgo #601372 (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=601372) ) * VPN connections in the top-level applet menu First I wanna hack the VPN autoconnect for NetworkManager. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309702

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[New: openFATE 312294] YaST and GNOME3 :: Mockup
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 10 Oct '11

10 Oct '11

Feature added by: Nelson Marques (ketheriel) Feature #312294, revision 1 Title: YaST and GNOME3 :: Mockup openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Nelson Marques (ketheriel) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: I've written a small text regarding a possible integration of YaST 2 on GNOME3 and provided a simple mockup. http://lizards.opensuse.org/2011/04/30/mockup-gnome3-and-yast/ (http://lizards.opensuse.org/2011/04/30/mockup-gnome3-and-yast/) Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: * Easier to maintain a simple extension, instead of a full application as a front-end; * Really cool integration; * First class differentiation with other distros; * Easier access to users; -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312294

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[New: openFATE 309553] Ereseva
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 10 Oct '11

10 Oct '11

Feature added by: Hendrik Vogelsang (hennevogel) Feature #309553, revision 1 Title: Ereseva Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Hendrik Vogelsang (hennevogel) Description: http://tapioca-voip.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Ereseva Ereséva is an Instant Messenger and VoIP application written to fit well with the GNOME Desktop Environment. It is written in Python and it uses the Tapioca framework which is based on Telepathy specification. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309553

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[New: openFATE 309555] GCstar
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 10 Oct '11

10 Oct '11

Feature added by: Hendrik Vogelsang (hennevogel) Feature #309555, revision 1 Title: GCstar Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Hendrik Vogelsang (hennevogel) Description: http://www.gcstar.org/ GCstar is a free open source application for managing your collections. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309555

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[New: openFATE 308976] Color management in GNOME
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 10 Oct '11

10 Oct '11

Feature added by: Vincent Untz (vuntz) Feature #308976, revision 1 Title: Color management in GNOME openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Vincent Untz (vuntz) Description: We should make color management just work on the desktop, so that people can enjoy color accuracy when looking at their pictures, or when printing. gnome-color-manager and recent gnome-settings-daemon would bring us a great step forward. See http://projects.gnome.org/gnome-color-manager/ -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308976

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