December 2012 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[New: openFATE 312081] Global Menu
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 06 May '15

06 May '15

Feature added by: Shashank Sondhi (dreamtrip) Feature #312081, revision 1 Title: Global Menu Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Shashank Sondhi (dreamtrip) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Global Menu is a GNOME and KDE plugin making great waves in the ubuntu circa. If it were ported to openSUSE then the Mac look and feel aspect could be furthered and the desktop of openSUSE could receive a face-lift possibility which is very very user-friendly. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312081

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[New: openFATE 311360] pdfgrep
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 06 May '15

06 May '15

Feature added by: Edward B (edward_in_edmonton) Feature #311360, revision 1 Title: pdfgrep openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Edward B (edward_in_edmonton) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: pdfgrep is a nice little upstream utility that lets you search for a string in PDF files. It deserves to be better known. I would like to see it in the main openSuSE oss repo. It is currently only available for openSuSE (11.3) at http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/dnh/openSUSE_11.3 -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311360

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[New: openFATE 311442] A OneNote compatible tool is needed
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 06 May '15

06 May '15

Feature added by: Greg Freemyer (gregfreemyer) Feature #311442, revision 1 Title: A OneNote compatible tool is needed Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Greg Freemyer (gregfreemyer) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: One of tools I still need almost daily from a Windows perspective is OneNote. My company has adopted it as a note taking standard for internal projects. It is part of the Microsoft Office suite. Until a linux/opensuse/libreoffice/kde solution is provided, I have to rdesktop into a Windows machine to work with OneNote files. Note that I need a tool that allows collaboration with MS OneNote users, not a new tool that offers OneNote like functionality, but not OneNote on disk compatibility. That is OneNote is in part a collaboration tool that allows multiple simultaneous users to open a notebook. (Assuming the notebook is on a fileserver / share.) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311442

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[New: openFATE 312475] Linux administrative toolkit
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 06 May '15

06 May '15

Feature added by: Sławomir Lach (Lachu) Feature #312475, revision 1 Title: Linux administrative toolkit Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Neutral Requested by: Sławomir Lach (lachu) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Create Linux administrative toolkit to provide multiple distribution administrative tool. This set should contains cli, cui and gui tools. Also prepare documentation of usability to help creating similar tools. Also add metapackage to install each tool from this set. Use Case: Alex is a student. On school he learn Common Linux administrative tool. He will install it on future work and won't teach a new administrative tools when changing work, etc. Peter works as repairer of computers. He will use the same administrative tools on each computer, so he offer to work only if user allow to install it. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Actually Fedora with other teams creating tools like PackageKit, PolicyKit, etc. That's great idea but some distribution have own administrative tools, so don't ships fedora's tool. Linux have some problems on accessing to school markets and allow to accessing some services, because no one set of administrative tools are existing. We have many tools, like smart, Yast, PackageKit, etc. but no promotional action, no set of this tool and no way to install it by few clicks. To make Linux market bigger we need push Linux into schools, but we need one popular set of tools to manage Linux desktop/server. Teachers can't believe students will use the same distribution on work or home, so Linux isn't popular in schools. I also in school teach Ubuntu and Fedora. On high-school i works on Debian. In home in only uses OpenSUSE. When administrator, student or teacher would install one common for many distributions administrative set of tools via one click employers would have less trouble with finding Linux administrators. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312475

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[New: openFATE 312776] Recent PHPUnit Test Ssuite
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 06 May '15

06 May '15

Feature added by: Ralf Lang (ralflangb1) Feature #312776, revision 1 Title: Recent PHPUnit Test Ssuite openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Ralf Lang (ralflangb1) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: The currently available version of phpunit is old and essentially bitrot. The distribution model has changed to pear. I am in the process of adding the current phpunit suite and its dependencies to factory. Use Case: Building a PHP CI environment with Jenkins and PHPUnit Testing software during development Regression testing when providing suse patches for php software. Building susestudio appliances with test suite already included, Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Make openSUSE a more serious platform for web developers. Developers should not have to resort to 3rd party packages and non-distribution channels like pear to have recent but stable versions of their tools. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312776

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[New: openFATE 312725] Kmail Backup + Recover
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 06 May '15

06 May '15

Feature added by: Andreas Kochinke (denkmal) Feature #312725, revision 1 Title: Kmail Backup + Recover Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Andreas Kochinke (denkmal) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: I would like to have a Backup-button (and Recover) for Kmail (and other programs). It could easily copy all necesary data-files into a backup-folder. Maybe selective backup (or selective recover) could be useful as some of the configurations are no longer desired. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312725

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[New: openFATE 312794] Update libjingle to 0.5.9
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 06 May '15

06 May '15

Feature added by: Holger Hees (hhees) Feature #312794, revision 1 Title: Update libjingle to 0.5.9 Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Holger Hees (hhees) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: latest version in head is 0.3.12. 0.3.x was released in 2006. latest version on the project page is 0.5.9 http://code.google.com/p/libjingle/ -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312794

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[New: openFATE 309192] Provide Bugzilla Server rpm
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 06 May '15

06 May '15

Feature added by: Hemant Mohan (hemantm) Feature #309192, revision 1 Title: Provide Bugzilla Server rpm Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Hemant Mohan (hemantm) Description: Please provide Bugzilla server (http://www.bugzilla.org) packaged for Opensuse. Bugzilla is a very frequently used tool for development projects. In case Opensuse is being used as a server for any development activity, then Bugzilla server i a desired tool. Thanks, Hemant -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309192

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[New: openFATE 312995] webui create incident workflow
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 06 May '15

06 May '15

Feature added by: Adrian Schröter (adrianSuSE) Feature #312995, revision 1 Title: webui create incident workflow Buildservice: New Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Ludwig is suggesting follow workflow/webui for creating a security or maintenance update: # Click on "Create Incident" in Maintenance project # OPTIONAL interface to searching of maintained source packages with autocompletion # search for open incidents with these source packages. Ideally also checking if link target is the same. # open patchinfo editor -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312995

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[New: openFATE 312901] Add bumblebee for NVidia Optimus graphics support
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 May '15

05 May '15

Feature added by: Staffan Tjernstrom (staffantj) Feature #312901, revision 1 Title: Add bumblebee for NVidia Optimus graphics support Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Staffan Tjernstrom (staffantj) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee ------------------- ## About Bumblebee ------------------- Bumblebee aims to provide support for nVidia Optimus laptops for GNU/Linux distributions. Using Bumblebee, you can use your nVidia card for rendering graphics which will be displayed using the Intel card. Note that you cannot disable the Intel GPU even with Bumblebee installed. Support for enabling and disabling the the nVidia card is in development. Please refer to section 'Power Management' below. Currently, Bumblebee has only been tested on Ubuntu and Arch Linux. Please join #bumblebee channel on Freenode if you wish to help testing and creating the installer. ---------------- ## Installation ---------------- There are several ways to get Bumblebee: ### Using your package manager (recommended if available): If you were using an old version of Bumblebee (<2.3 non-Arch distribution), please run this the first time before switching to a newer version: 1. wget https://raw.github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/master/cleanup 2. chmod +x cleanup 2. sudo ./cleanup Ubuntu: 1. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bumblebee/stable 1bis. If you are on Ubuntu prior to 11.10 and want newer drivers (recommended) than the ones available in the official repos, run: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates 2. sudo apt-get update 3. sudo apt-get install bumblebee Arch Linux: AUR package: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=49469 Instructions in the ArchWiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bumblebee ### Using the installation script: If you were using an old version of Bumblebee (<2.3), please run this the first time before switching to a newer version: 1. wget https://raw.github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/master/cleanup 2. chmod +x cleanup 2. sudo ./cleanup Then, you need to install VirtualGL > 2.2.1 (2.2.90 is advised) and nvidia driver. Tarballs can be found at https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/downloads Download the tarball named like bumblebee-VERSION.tar.gz, extract and install it: 1. Download 2. Extract: $ tar xf bumbleee-VERSION.tar.gz 3. Change your directory to the extracted folder: $ cd bumblebee-VERSION 4. (if you've previously installed Bumblebee < 2.3:) $ sudo ./cleanup 5. Run the installer: $ sudo ./install Installation instructions for getting the code from git: $ git clone git://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee.git Users who want to test the development code should run: $ git clone git://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee.git -b develop --depth 1 Then in order to install: $ cd Bumblebee $ sudo ./install --------- ## Usage --------- After the initial bumblebee installation, you need to add yourself to the 'bumblebee' group: $ sudo usermod -a -G bumblebee YOURUSERNAME Replace YOURUSERNAME accordingly and please double check the command, if you forget the '-a' option, you remove yourself from other groups. After adding yourself to the group, you need to re-login for the changes to apply. Applications can be started using bumblebee by prefixing it with optirun. For example, starting Firefox can be done with: optirun firefox -------------------- ## Power Management -------------------- Since 2.4, we added backend support for enabling/disabling the card. You should first read the following page: https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/wiki/ACPI-Removed It will help you understand the current situation about Power Management. If you understand what that does mean, then, here is how to enable it. You need to install acpi_call module for your system. Ubuntu: available on the PPA. To install it, run: sudo apt-get install acpi-call-tools Arch Linux: AUR package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39470 First, edit the 'bumblebee.conf' file and set power management to Y. You should also set STOP_SERVICE_ON_EXIT to Y: ENABLE_POWER_MANAGEMENT=Y STOP_SERVICE_ON_EXIT=Y Then, in the bumblebee conf dir, create the textfiles 'cardon' and 'cardoff' which should just contain the calls to respectively enable and disable the card. Each line should contain a call, comments are not allowed. Check 'bumblebee.conf' file comments on Power Management for more informations. After that, reboot (or restart daemon) to apply changes. ------------- ## Uninstall ------------- If you're unsatisfied with Bumblebee, you can remove it by running: $ sudo bumblebee-uninstall If you used a package version of Bumblebee, then use your package manager to uninstall. --------------------------- ## Reporting bugs/problems --------------------------- First of all: If you have any problem, please read this article: https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/wiki/Reporting-Issues Then create a bug report package with the bumblebee-bugreport tool and open an issue on GitHub at https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/issues -------------- ## Developers -------------- The current developers for Bumblebee are: - ArchangeGabriel - Lekensteyn - Samsagax - paulvriens - Ximi1970 Check the https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/wiki/Developers page for developer information. ---------------- ## Useful Links ---------------- Status updates can be found here on twitter: https://twitter.com/Team_Bumblebee Commits are flooded here: https://twitter.com/Bumblebee_Git You may also join the facebook group: http://tinyurl.com/bumblebeefacebook Launchpad Team page: https://launchpad.net/~bumblebee Use Case: Lenovo Thinkpad W520 with NVidia 2000GT discrete graphics hidng behind Intel Optimus. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Currently there is no Optimus support in the distro (that I can see), and with more and more high-end laptops shipping with i2xxx Intel CPUs with NVidia / Optimus graphics cards, restricting those laptops to the drm'd Intel driver is quite a hindrance. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312901

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