December 2012 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[New: openFATE 313363] Mad Wifi repositories requested to be included with DVD install
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Nov '16

22 Nov '16

Feature added by: Amy Swanson (freespiritamy) Feature #313363, revision 1 Title: Mad Wifi repositories requested to be included with DVD install Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Amy Swanson (freespiritamy) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: I think it would be good to include the mad wifi repositories as part of the yast system on the DVD install that you download from the site. In addition to the repository already being included.. have the mad wifi drivers be present as part of the start up install program so that in the event of an atheros card, or other card that uses the madwifi, being detected, these drivers are automatically installed upon detection... then no ethernet cable would even be needed. Use Case: I have had a couple crashes and every time I have to find an ethernet cable (something I don't normally use AT ALL) for my laptop, google and look for the wiki page that talks about the mad wifi repositories (so glad they have one) copy the URL and paste into my repositories, then look for everything related to my atheros card (mad wifi is the only think that will make it work). This process would be so much simpler if it would just be included from the start.. I'm sure that if I have this problem there are others that do also. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Would be much more efficient especially in this day when so many of us use laptops and only laptops. Ethernet cables are very inconvenient to have to use and look for just so you can get your wifi working... if the drivers are already there then this need is eliminated and the whole process is much more streamlined and trouble free, even enjoyable... then it should work out of the box for most folks. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313363

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[New: openFATE 312364] Qualcomm Gobi Wizard, making mobile broadband simple.
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Nov '16

22 Nov '16

Feature added by: Roger Luedecke (Shadowolf7) Feature #312364, revision 1 Title: Qualcomm Gobi Wizard, making mobile broadband simple. openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Roger Luedecke (shadowolf7) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: My HP un2400 Gobi device is supported and should work. Whether it is due to USB mode switching or that the gobi_loader does not work correctly I do not know. There should be a simple wizard like that which ships under Windows (VZW connection manager) to allow me and other users in the same situation to easily make us of the Mobile Broadband we pay for. This is the final thing keeping me from wiping Windows off my netbook entirely. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Use of Mobile Broadband is not likely to decline, but rather increase with the proliferation of affordable increasingly powerful Netbooks. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312364

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[New: openFATE 313851] Add NetworkManager to laptop pattern
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Nov '16

22 Nov '16

Feature added by: Michal Vyskocil (mvyskocil) Feature #313851, revision 1 Title: Add NetworkManager to laptop pattern openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Michal Vyskocil (mvyskocil) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: During an installation NetworkManager should be preferred instead of traditional /etc/init.d/network at least for laptops. It seems that NM runs faster than traditional ifup things and in overall it fits the standard laptop usage more, than static network configuration. Optimizing a boot time, aka 2 second boot (http://lizards.opensuse.org/2012/07/26/optimizing-a-boot-time-aka-2-second-…) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313851

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[New: openFATE 313510] Wipe all vt's leaving just graphical one...
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Nov '16

22 Nov '16

Feature added by: Nelson Marques (ketheriel) Feature #313510, revision 1 Title: Wipe all vt's leaving just graphical one... openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Nelson Marques (ketheriel) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Free your mind from your own personal usage and think on the vast majority of Desktop users with openSUSE; Do we need so many tty's? Honestly, many people don't use, so lets just ditch them and leave the system only using 1 single graphical vt. One step closer to a real desktop... and yeah, everyone does it for years... So YOU might actually bring innovation amongst linux vendors... -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313510

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[New: openFATE 312972] zypper update license handling
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Nov '16

22 Nov '16

Feature added by: Eduard Avetisyan (dich) Feature #312972, revision 1 Title: zypper update license handling openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Eduard Avetisyan (dich) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: With every flashplayer or java update "zypper up" asks to confirm the license agreement over and over again. It would be nice if the license needs confirmation ONLY if it has changed since the last "Agreed" action. Making the "-l" option default is not a very good idea since sometimes the license may change in an unpredictable way, but if it's unchanged it gets really annoying. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312972

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[New: openFATE 312974] Add Ext4 LVM snapshot support to Snapper.
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Nov '16

22 Nov '16

Feature added by: Roger Luedecke (Shadowolf7) Feature #312974, revision 1 Title: Add Ext4 LVM snapshot support to Snapper. openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Roger Luedecke (shadowolf7) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Very simple. The way Snapper can work on Btrfs, enable it to work that way with the backup snapshots of Ext4 filesystems using Logical Volume Management. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312974

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[New: openFATE 312690] YaST Software Management -- Install from cache
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Nov '16

22 Nov '16

Feature added by: Brian Sherson (shersonb) Feature #312690, revision 1 Title: YaST Software Management -- Install from cache openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Brian Sherson (shersonb) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Since Software Management allows users the option to save downloaded packages, it would be nice to also give the option of installing a saved RPM. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Suppose a user, by intent or otherwise, installs a new version of a particular package that has become available in one of the repositories. If the user decides revert to the previous version that was saved from before, it may be convenient to select the old version from Software Management, provided the package exists in the cache. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312690

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[New: openFATE 313386] Support of par2 package
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 20 Nov '16

20 Nov '16

Feature added by: Winfrid Tschiedel (WinfridT) Feature #313386, revision 1 Title: Support of par2 package openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Winfrid Tschiedel (winfridt) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: openSUSE supports the par package, which is outdated. Posts on the USENET contain very often additional files, so you can repair corrupted posts using the par2 cmdline command. par2 is available on other Linux distributions like ubuntu, fedora, ... You can already find par2 rpm on https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=par2&project=home%3Adavjam7… So, please integrate par2 package into the netx openSUSE distribution. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313386

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[New: openFATE 314471] Distribution of GRUB2 emulator by a package
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 20 Nov '16

20 Nov '16

Feature added by: Markus Elfring (elfring) Feature #314471, revision 1 Title: Distribution of GRUB2 emulator by a package openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Neutral Requested by: Markus Elfring (elfring) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: I would appreciate if the software "GRUB2 emulator" will also become available for openSUSE directly by a package. Can anything be reused from an Ubuntu installation source (http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/grub-emu) ? See also my initial bug report ' Distribution of "grub2-emu" by a package? (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=780638) '. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314471

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[New: openFATE 309007] Add more scientific packages
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 20 Nov '16

20 Nov '16

Feature added by: Ricardo Gabriel Berlasso (RGBsuse) Feature #309007, revision 1 Title: Add more scientific packages Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Ricardo Gabriel Berlasso (rgbsuse) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Right now, openSUSE have quite few "scientific packages". We have freemat on Education, xmgrace ... and a few more. But, for example, octave is only on Packman and SciDAVis is nowhere (for 11.2 at least). There are no packages for Scilab either, nor for PAW... Use Case: A physicist (or engineer) working on University that needs a good Linux distro for his/her work. Nowadays, even if openSUSE is more stable and reliable than fedora, the scientist will choose the later because its larger set of scientific packages. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: To give openSUSE more presence on universities and research centers at "final user" level. Now openSUSE and its derivatives are found in clusters to run simulations (I've seen some of them) with ad-hoc programs, or in supercomputers, but not in the office computer for the single researcher. With its focus on stability, openSUSE could be the perfect "scy distro" but the few "heavy duty" scientific packages available is against this. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309007

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[New: openFATE 311397] uniconvertor
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 20 Nov '16

20 Nov '16

Feature added by: Christopher Yeleighton (yecril71pl) Feature #311397, revision 1 Title: uniconvertor openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Christopher Yeleighton (yecril71pl) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: UniConvertor is a universal vector graphics translator. It is a command line tool which uses sK1 object model to convert one format to another. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: The tool uniconvertor is subsidiary to ImageMagick. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311397

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[New: openFATE 311389] RADIANCE
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 20 Nov '16

20 Nov '16

Feature added by: Christopher Yeleighton (yecril71pl) Feature #311389, revision 1 Title: RADIANCE openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Christopher Yeleighton (yecril71pl) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: RADIANCE is a highly accurate ray-tracing software system for UNIX computers that is licensed at no cost in source form. Radiance was developed with primary support from the U.S. Department Of Energy and additional support from the Swiss Federal Government. Copyright is held by the Regents of the University of California. <URL: http://radsite.lbl.gov/radiance/HOME.html > Test Case: { type ra_pfm; } Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: ra_pfm is a subsidiary application used by ImageMagick. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311389

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[New: openFATE 311398] GhostXPS
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 20 Nov '16

20 Nov '16

Feature added by: Christopher Yeleighton (yecril71pl) Feature #311398, revision 1 Title: GhostXPS openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Christopher Yeleighton (yecril71pl) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: GhostXPS is Artifex Software's implementation of the Microsoft XML Paper Specification (XPS) page description language. It is currently under development. Test Case: { type gxps; } Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: The tool gxps is subsidiary to ImageMagick. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311398

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[New: openFATE 311386] RALCGM
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 20 Nov '16

20 Nov '16

Feature added by: Christopher Yeleighton (yecril71pl) Feature #311386, revision 1 Title: RALCGM openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Christopher Yeleighton (yecril71pl) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: RAL-CGM [1] is a program to interpret Computer Graphics Metafiles. It can: * Translate them to a different encoding (Binary, Character or Clear Text) * Display CGM's on screen using X-Windows * Send CGM's to a printer or plotter (PostScript or HPGL) It runs on Unix machines (X11 needed for display). ___ [1] <URL: http://www.agocg.ac.uk/train/cgm/ralcgm.htm > Test Case: http://www.agocg.ac.uk/train/cgm/examples/allbezcg.gz Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: It is a subsidiary component to ImageMagick. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311386

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[New: openFATE 311394] GhostPCL
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 20 Nov '16

20 Nov '16

Feature added by: Christopher Yeleighton (yecril71pl) Feature #311394, revision 1 Title: GhostPCL openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Christopher Yeleighton (yecril71pl) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: GhostPCL is Artifex Software's implementation of the PCL-5â¢ and PCL-XLâ¢ family of page description languages. Test Case: { type pcl6; } Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: pcl6 is a subsidiary external tool used by ImageMagick. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311394

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[New: openFATE 311396] rawtorle
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 20 Nov '16

20 Nov '16

Feature added by: Christopher Yeleighton (yecril71pl) Feature #311396, revision 1 Title: rawtorle openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Christopher Yeleighton (yecril71pl) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Converts the kitchen sink to RLE format. Test Case: == Examples: == * 512x512 greyscale image: rawtorle -w 512 -h 512 -n 1 * 640x512 raw RGB file : rawtorle -w 640 -h 512 -n 3 * picture.[rgb] : cat picture.* | rawtorle -w 640 -h 512 -n 3 -N -r * JPLs ODL voyager pics : rawtorle -w 800 -h 800 -f 2508 -t 1672 -n 1 -p 36 Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: The tool rawtorle is subsidiary to ImageMagick. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311396

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[New: openFATE 313146] Replace KDE NM plasmoid with wicd-KDE
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 20 Nov '16

20 Nov '16

Feature added by: Dan MacDonald (danboid) Feature #313146, revision 1 Title: Replace KDE NM plasmoid with wicd-KDE openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Dan MacDonald (danboid) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Overall I have been greatly impressed with the KDE version of OS 12.1 and I feel this distro is 98% of the way to being the perfect desktop Linux distribution. There is just one dodgy app letting the side down and that is the KDE Networkmanager plasmoid. I'm sure the KDE NMP is fine for people who only use ethernet but it seems to suffer multiple problems dealing with wifi such as: * I seem to be to be able to connect to wifi networks OK if its the first time. After that it seems unwilling to connect to a network that has already been used - after a reboot for exanmple - even if 'Connect automatically' has been chosen. * Switching between access points/networks in unintuitive, in fact I still don't know how to do this using the NM plasmoid. Its usability stinks and I find its GUI overly busy, cluttered and confusing. * Will someone please just kill KDE wallet and related tech now please? I have never and likely will never want a password to access my passwords!! The whole idea seems dumb to me and unfortunately the KNMP has bought into this way of doing things. Thankfully, wicd stores wifi keys without any extra hassle of putting a password on your passwords passwords! :) I know that if I had not been a long-time Linux user who was not aware of the possibility of installing wicd-kde as a hassle-free, working and user-friendly replacement I would've very likely gave up hope on using opensuse. Like most other desktop users I need wifi to work in a easy and reliable fashion and this fundamental requirement is not fulfilled by the KDE Networkmanager plasmoid which should be replaced in the standard OS KDE distro by wicd-kde. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313146

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[New: openFATE 309345] View lisf of files in not installed package
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 20 Nov '16

20 Nov '16

Feature added by: Adam Mizerski (etamPL) Feature #309345, revision 1 Title: View lisf of files in not installed package openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Adam Mizerski (etampl) Description: In YaST package manager it's possible to view list of files of package that is installed. But it's not possible for not installed ones. This should be possible to do without downloading all packages, because lists of files are written in ARCHIVES.gz in YaST repos and repodata/filelists.xml.gz in YUM repos. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309345

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[New: openFATE 308434] Add Ubuntu-like software center to support 1-click install/uninstall
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 20 Nov '16

20 Nov '16

Feature added by: 嘉樺張 (iamchiahua) Feature #308434, revision 1 Title: Add Ubuntu-like software center to support 1-click install/uninstall openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: 嘉樺張 (iamchiahua) Description: A software manager support 1-click install/uninstall is more suitable for novice. They just need to know the software, rather than the package. The original package management is reserved for advanced users. Ubuntu software center is a good idea to support the following two features. #305582: Off-Line one click install (MSI for Linux) #305305: 1-click uninstall(MS Uninstaller for Linux) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308434

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[openFATE 307942] change YaST PKGMGR_ACTION_AT_EXIT beavier from EXIT to RESTART
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 20 Nov '16

20 Nov '16

Feature added by: andrea florio (anubisg1) Feature #307942, revision 1 Title: change YaST PKGMGR_ACTION_AT_EXIT beavier from EXIT to RESTART openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: andrea florio (anubisg1) Description: YaST actually looks to crasch after an installation is end. according to /etc/sysconfig/yast2 # The summary dialog is always displayed when an installation error has occured. so set that value to summary is un-useful, since the only time i need to read a summary is when something fail. i think the best way is just to do as any other package manager i used on debian/ubuntu, mandriva, fedora. just go back to "package search/selection" screen. that means set the value PKGMGR_ACTION_AT_EXIT="restart" -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307942

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[New: openFATE 309504] Update dhcpcd to 5.2.2
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 20 Nov '16

20 Nov '16

Feature added by: ron neilly (rjneilly) Feature #309504, revision 1 Title: Update dhcpcd to 5.2.2 openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: ron neilly (rjneilly) Description: Upgrade from dhcpcd v3.2.3.x, which is in openSUSE 11.2 and 11.3-Factory, to v5.2.2. It seems that we are using a very old dhcpcd that has many issues, some that won't be fixed because they are addressed in more recent releases. So why not upgrade to a current version? v5.2.2 was released on March 31, 2010. v3.2.3 was released over two years ago on Feb 25, 2008 If this can't make it into 11.3 then put on the list for 11.4 Cheers, Ron -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309504

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[openFATE 306917] Improvements to restricted-multimedia codecs installer
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 20 Nov '16

20 Nov '16

Feature added by: Atri Bhattacharya (badshah400) Feature #306917, revision 1 Title: Improvements to restricted-multimedia codecs installer openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Atri Bhattacharya (badshah400) Description: At the moment the execution of opensuse-codecs-installer leads to a rather unnerving chain of events for beginners starting with the webpage. http://software.opensuse.org/codecs?client_version=10.3.1&lang=en_GB.UTF-8&… 11.1 (x86_64)&kernel=2.6.27.23-0.1-default&gstreamer=gstreamer-utils-0.10.21-3.13& The request is to either have a different implementation of codec-installer itself (for example, clicking the search for codecs button on the codec installer automatically starts a one-click-installer for installing required multimedia packages), or improve the codec-installer website to make things easy (reduce number of clicks required to just 1 or 2) and trivial (ie. no decision-making about fluendo/community, etc). Use Case: New user (openSUSE virgin ;) , i.e., any MAN or WOMAN who hasn't used openSUSE yet, possibly only has used windows till now) tries to play an mp3 file. Then the following sequence starts: 1) Codecs-installer pops up. 2) User clicks on install codecs (preferably call it restricted-multimedia support). 3) Browser opens, shows up website with version of opensuse and desktop environment detected. 4) User clicks to start one-click installer. 5) Installatin completes, user retries playing mp3 file, it works, user happy. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306917

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[New: openFATE 310228] TouchScreens support
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 20 Nov '16

20 Nov '16

Feature added by: Hammed RAMDANI (hammed) Feature #310228, revision 1 Title: TouchScreens support openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Hammed RAMDANI (hammed) Description: Will be mandatory for many pcs like HP TouchSmart products -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310228

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[New: openFATE 311176] add pypy - a faster python implementation
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 20 Nov '16

20 Nov '16

Feature added by: Di Pe (dipe) Feature #311176, revision 1 Title: add pypy - a faster python implementation openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Di Pe (dipe) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: pypy is (almost) fully compatible to python 2.5 but it can execute your unmodified 5-15 times faster than the standard cPython. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311176

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[openFATE 308043] Use Open Video drivers
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 20 Nov '16

20 Nov '16

Feature added by: Piotrek Juzwiak (BenderBendingRodriguez) Feature #308043, revision 1 Title: Use Open Video drivers openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Piotrek Juzwiak (benderbendingrodriguez) Description: It would be very desirable if the open video drivers (nouveau, ati and intel) were used by default BUT in the presence of the closed drivers (as we know they still have a better quality and allow 3d operations) switch to them. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308043

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