December 2012 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[New: openFATE 312810] Build a wireless lan access point
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 25 Aug '15

25 Aug '15

Feature added by: Juergen Weigert (jnweiger) Feature #312810, revision 1 Title: Build a wireless lan access point openSUSE.org: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Juergen Weigert (jnweiger) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Use hostap mode to turn a laptop into a full featured access point. (not just ad-hoc). Find out which hardware is suitable. I have an USB-Wlan-dongle with rt73 chipset, whichis reported to support AP-mode. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312810

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[New: openFATE 311401] Live CD templates
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 14 Aug '15

14 Aug '15

Feature added by: Mustafa Hadi (mustafa1987) Feature #311401, revision 1 Title: Live CD templates SUSE Studio: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Mustafa Hadi (mustafa1987) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Add a template with their default package selection is all the software available on the live CDs (KDE Live CD and Gnome Live CD) and the software automatically selected on the first yast software manager run, adding these templates is not hard to do (they are just package selection lists) an its benifits will be great. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: To provide a complete operating system that can be then extended with additional software, the KDE4 template is just not enough. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311401

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[New: openFATE 310176] Switch to sssd for LDAP/Kerberos authentication
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 30 Jul '15

30 Jul '15

Feature added by: Ralf Haferkamp (rhafer) Feature #310176, revision 1 Title: Switch to sssd for LDAP/Kerberos authentication openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Ralf Haferkamp (rhafer) Description: Because of the various issues we face with nss_ldap/pam_ldap (see e.g. bug#477061, bug#157078 and others) and because of the added value sssd gives us (e.g. offline support, integrated kerberos support). We should change yast2-ldap-client to configure sssd instead of nss_ldap/pam_ldap/pam_kerberos. sssd packages are already available for 11.3. We still need to add support for it in pam-config. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310176

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[openFATE 306370] Support request creating and accepting from remote packages
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 28 Jul '15

28 Jul '15

Feature added by: Adrian Schröter (adrianSuSE) Feature #306370, revision 1, last change by Title: Support request creating and accepting from remote packages Buildservice: Evaluation Priority Requester: Important Projectmanager: Important Requested by: Adrian Schröter (adriansuse) Description: Submit requests should be supported when using a remote project/package as source. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306370

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[New: openFATE 312640] watch request (CC)
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 28 Jul '15

28 Jul '15

Feature added by: Christian Boltz (cboltz) Feature #312640, revision 1 Title: watch request (CC) Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Christian Boltz (cboltz) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: I'd like to have an option to "watch" a submitrequest - similar to "Watch this feature" in FATE or "CC" in bugzilla. Hermes should then mail me updates on the SR as if I had done the SR myself. Usecase: someone SRs a new package to Factory which I need as dependency for another package, and I want to be informed when the package is accepted in Factory. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312640

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[New: openFATE 309188] Don't require keytab file for kerberos authentication
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 May '15

26 May '15

Feature added by: Todd R (TheBlackCat) Feature #309188, revision 1 Title: Don't require keytab file for kerberos authentication openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Todd R (theblackcat) Description: In openSUSE, when using kerberos it requires that a keytab file be available for things like kerberized nfs. However, not all kerberos servers are set up to provide keytabs. Someone using openSUSE cannot access these resources using kerberos at all, as far as I have been able to find out. It would be nice if openSUSE removed this requirement, or at least made it user-configurable whether to require it or not. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309188

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[New: openFATE 312732] Article rating in our wiki
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 19 May '15

19 May '15

Feature added by: Kim Leyendecker (openLHAG) Feature #312732, revision 1 Title: Article rating in our wiki openSUSE.org: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Neutral Requested by: Kim Leyendecker (openlhag) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Wikipedia is doing this for some months now, and I think, the idea behind it is really nice. See the following article and have a look to the end: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSUSE#External_links ThereÂ´s a little rating window with some criteria. I think, especially for such a technical wiki like our ones, we should enable something like this (if possible) Use Case: People can rate our articles -> We get feedback and ideas how to make our wiki better Creating a "We-feeling" -> the crowd feels addressed and to move for join the wiki team. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: We get Feedback and the chance to improve our wiki. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312732

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[New: openFATE 313813] Interwiki bot on openSUSE.org wikis
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 19 May '15

19 May '15

Feature added by: Hendrik Vogelsang (hennevogel) Feature #313813, revision 1 Title: Interwiki bot on openSUSE.org wikis openSUSE Infrastructure: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Hendrik Vogelsang (hennevogel) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: As far as i know, we are not using any kind of automatic interwiki creation, but i think we should start using http://pywikipediabot.sourceforge.net/ or any other bot for this stuff. It can make our wiki more interwiki linked. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313813

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[New: openFATE 314348] Improved usb installer
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 19 May '15

19 May '15

Feature added by: Michael Doris (dorism) Feature #314348, revision 1 Title: Improved usb installer openSUSE Infrastructure: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Michael Doris (dorism) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: It would be great to be able to select a usb install option on the 'download' page - making it more prominent and integrated for users. I think there should be some guidance on how to boot from usb too on the site as a lot of people may not know how to do this from their bios. Use Case: The use case woudl look something like this - website offers to burn to disk, usb or provide a 'live version' - user selects option to install to usb - the user then accepts the option to download the usb installer - user launches the usb installer - usb installer launches and downloads the appropriate .iso file for that system - once downloaded it offers the option for write image to usb - users confirms and writes iso to usb Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: I think this will encourage adoption since a lot of new devices don't have CD drives any more. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314348

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[New: openFATE 313313] Angosso
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 19 May '15

19 May '15

Feature added by: Roger Mbiama Assogo (angosso8) Feature #313313, revision 1 Title: Angosso openSUSE Infrastructure: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Roger Mbiama Assogo (angosso8) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Real world, running a Terminal Server configuring NX Server -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313313

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[New: openFATE 313229] Create infrastructure to recognize user contributions
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 19 May '15

19 May '15

Feature added by: Robert Schweikert (rjschwei) Feature #313229, revision 1 Title: Create infrastructure to recognize user contributions openSUSE Infrastructure: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Robert Schweikert (rjschwei) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: One of the requirements of becoming a member is for the applicant to show contributions to the project. These contributions then need to get verified by the membership committee. This verification today is tedious, and we would like to have a system that makes it easy to verify contributions across the various areas of the project. In addition we would like to use the same mechanism to enable recognition of project contributions by existing members. The idea is to automatically collect data such as - submit requests to the project, possibly listed by project - packages maintained (possibly not inherited maintainership) - forum posts - ML participation - bugs filed and/or fixed - wiki edits Some general ideas can be found in this message: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2012-01/msg00390.html -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313229

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[New: openFATE 313120] use a safe hashing algorithm for dvd images and rpm file headers
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 19 May '15

19 May '15

Feature added by: Elmar Stellnberger (estellnb) Feature #313120, revision 1 Title: use a safe hashing algorithm for dvd images and rpm file headers openSUSE Infrastructure: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Elmar Stellnberger (estellnb) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: At the moment only sha1 and md5sum are offered in the web download area of opensuse.org. However I believe that we should offer only hash values of algorithms generally considered as safe like sha256 and sha512 here whereby I would prefer sha512 as the stronger hashing method. Similarely a stronger hashing algorithm should be used to check individual files by the rpm header with rpm --verify. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313120

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[New: openFATE 310710] Integrate the functionality of "fusermount -u" into umount
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 18 May '15

18 May '15

Feature added by: Reinhard Max (rmax) Feature #310710, revision 1 Title: Integrate the functionality of "fusermount -u" into umount openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Reinhard Max (rmax) Description: It is confusing that FUSE mount points need a different command to unmount them than everything else. Historically FUSE had to bring its own command, because traditional umount refuses umounting of mounts that are not in /etc/fstab for non-privileged users. But now that FUSE has become mainstream, I think it is time to integrate it better and get rid of the need for "fusermount -u". So my proposal is to either add the implementation of the "fusermount -u" functionality to mount, or let it execute "fusermount -u" as a subprocess for FUSE mountpoints. As root can already use umount for FUSE mount points, it probably doesn't need more than skipping the /etc/fstab test when umount is called on a FUSE mountpoint that is owned by the calling user. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310710

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[New: openFATE 311045] Old-repositories handling during upgrade (inst_upgrade_urls) needs rewriting
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 18 May '15

18 May '15

Feature added by: Lukas Ocilka (locilka) Feature #311045, revision 1 Title: Old-repositories handling during upgrade (inst_upgrade_urls) needs rewriting openSUSE.org: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Lukas Ocilka (locilka) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: See more in BNC #556469 -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311045

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[New: openFATE 309320] integrate mailinglist subscription with opensuse account
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 18 May '15

18 May '15

Feature added by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Feature #309320, revision 1 Title: integrate mailinglist subscription with opensuse account Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Description: [I know Buildservice as product is wrong but there's no opensuse.org] With my novell/opensuse account I can use the build service, wiki, lizards, fate, hermes etc all with one login. In order to subscribe to mailinglists I have to confirm my mail address for each list individually though. It would be more user friendly to optionally allow to log into lists.opensuse.org with my account (reusing the cookie for the other services) and subscribe to lists via mouse click, without extra email verification. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309320

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[New: openFATE 313174] Add an preview-option for profile-changes on connect.opensuse.org
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 18 May '15

18 May '15

Feature added by: Marcel Kuehlhorn (tux93) Feature #313174, revision 1 Title: Add an preview-option for profile-changes on connect.opensuse.org openSUSE.org: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Neutral Requested by: Marcel Kuehlhorn (tux93) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Add an preview-option for profile-changes on connect.opensuse.org so one doesnât have to save every time to see the result of a change and spam the "What is the Community up to?" box with "X changed their profile" messages. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313174

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[New: openFATE 310854] We fail at...
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 18 May '15

18 May '15

Feature added by: Alex Bars (alexdbars) Feature #310854, revision 1 Title: We fail at... openSUSE.org: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Alex Bars (alexdbars) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Sorry, can openSUSE throw out that message on installation about: "As required by US law, you represent and warrant that you: (...) c) will not export, re-export, or transfer openSUSE 11.3 to any prohibited destination, entity... d) will not use or transfer openSUSE 11.3 for use in any sensitive nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons or missile technology end-uses... " Why must not to be used by militaries, if the license is GPL? -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310854

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[New: openFATE 310872] We fail at...quality control
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 18 May '15

18 May '15

Feature added by: Verner Kjærsgaard (vernerliga) Feature #310872, revision 1 Title: We fail at...quality control openSUSE.org: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Neutral Requested by: Verner Kjærsgaard (vernerliga) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Dear Sirs, - I've been with SuSE since v7 or so. I make my living from Novell/openSuSE products. - it distrubs me everytime I sense a slight lack of quality control in the product(s). I use SLES10/11 for professional deployments - if I can... Many times SLES10/11 will lack libraries that are needed for running various common web-applications. Thus giving me no choice but to leave SLES(n) and go for a stripped down openSuSE installation that works... On the openSuSE side, it disturbs me that (using the KDE desktop) the Knetworkmanager or whatever it's calles these days is still not stable or plain just functioning. If one thows Ubunto at just about any laptop, the wireless just works. In openSuSE, not so. Or is not stable or is not quite polished. This should be corrected. In general I'm left with a feeling that in stead of more features one should concentrate on getting the present ones to work properly :-) Media is still a problem. How come that Ubuntu will show live-tv, openSuSE will not. Not so disturbing to me, I can fix it. But when I'm plugging openSUSE to friends...it becomes an issue. The YaST interface to CUPS isn't quite there yet although much improved over the last couple of versions :-) I wish I could contribute, alas, my programming skills are not goog enough. Sorry. Anyhow, I'm still with Novell/SUSE and I'm planning to stay. Best regards, Verner Kjærsgaard Denmark Novell Certified Linux Professional. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310872

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[New: openFATE 313065] Copy only visible cells
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 18 May '15

18 May '15

Feature added by: Matthias Praunegger (prauni) Feature #313065, revision 1 Title: Copy only visible cells openSUSE.org: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Neutral Requested by: Matthias Praunegger (prauni) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/copy-only-visible-cells Please install this extension in LibreOffice Calc by default. Or send a feature request to the package builder. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313065

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[New: openFATE 314614] Default 64-bit version of ISO on openSUSE.ORG
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 18 May '15

18 May '15

Feature added by: Dean Hilkewich (deanjo13) Feature #314614, revision 1 Title: Default 64-bit version of ISO on openSUSE.ORG openSUSE.org: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Dean Hilkewich (deanjo13) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: It seems to me that we should be encouraging the use of the 64-bit version of openSUSE. Right now the default selection on the download page defaults to 32-bit. With virtually every desktop/laptop x86 processor having 64-bit extensions within the last years we should be encouraging people to try it out. The long time issues of flash/java not having 64-bit support are gone to the point of not even defaulting 32-bit compatibility libs any more on the default install. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: To encourage people trying the 64-bit version who may think there are still old issues about it that have long been resolved. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314614

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[New: openFATE 314584] [libreoffice] Copy graphic styles in Impress
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 18 May '15

18 May '15

Feature added by: Thorsten Behrens (netsroth) Feature #314584, revision 1 Title: [libreoffice] Copy graphic styles in Impress openSUSE.org: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Thorsten Behrens (netsroth) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: When copying one object into another presentation, LibreOffice Impress currently only converts over presentation styles, leaving graphic styles to default values. This request is to (optionally) provide this missing functionality. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314584

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[New: openFATE 313436] Bring the old Package Finder on opensuse.org
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 18 May '15

18 May '15

Feature added by: gabriel byrne (assas1n) Feature #313436, revision 1 Title: Bring the old Package Finder on opensuse.org openSUSE.org: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: gabriel byrne (assas1n) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Some time ago, the library or package finder on opensuse.org was changed. The new version is too confusing to use, needing several unncesary clicks here and there. Plus, its a pain trying to find libraries or packages made by common users. Also, the link pointing to those users repositories is gone, making the task of installing user made packages a hasle. In my opinion, bringing the classic finder back would be great. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313436

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[New: openFATE 313416] Provide alternate printjob username
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 18 May '15

18 May '15

Feature added by: John Harmon (joharmon) Feature #313416, revision 1 Title: Provide alternate printjob username openSUSE.org: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: John Harmon (joharmon) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Would like to see a way in Samba to provide an alternate printjob username when guest printing. Don't know if I selected the right "product" for this request Test Case: I believe if you were to join a SLES box to an AD domain, then add the user for the server, as described above, the issue could be easily duplicated. I am working on that now. Use Case: In this particular instance the customer was authenticating to the server, or appeared to be, as a particular user. Whenever he printed, however, the banner page would come out as being printed by guest. Development found that the windows workstation had a user configured for this server (SERVERNAME/guest). net use commands didn't override this user (windows bug). In this case the "use default domain = yes" setting was being used, so the user's servername (SERVERNAME) would be stripped off, leaving us a username of guest--which would then login. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313416

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[New: openFATE 313311] Update Documentation
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 18 May '15

18 May '15

Feature added by: Peter Tselios (tpe) Feature #313311, revision 1 Title: Update Documentation openSUSE.org: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Peter Tselios (tpe) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Update the opensuse documentation (doc.opensuse.org) and especialy the NFS4 server section. Current section is not very helpful. A great example of relevant documentation can be found at the ArchLinux Wiki (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NFSv4) Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: The documentation is not helpful at all. The NFS4 changed the way directories are exported in more than one way. From the documentation is implied that most of the work is performed from the Yast, which -at least up to 11.4- is not full (for example, directories outside the exported "root" directory are not automatically mounted with --bind option. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313311

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[New: openFATE 310661] better facility to search for bugs
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 18 May '15

18 May '15

Feature added by: Elmar Stellnberger (estellnb) Feature #310661, revision 1 Title: better facility to search for bugs openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Elmar Stellnberger (estellnb) Description: openSUSE has really no bad bug support. However non-Suse users can never enfruit the benefits of openSUSE`s qa because there is no good way to search for bugs. This is even a problem for anyone who wants to check whether a problem is already reported before reporting it himself. I believe openSUSE could gain a lot of users by a better bug search. Bug reports do often contain solutions to common problems. If bugs are findable they will become linked and will thus be found more often by Google instead of the standard Ubuntu-threads talking around the hot pap. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310661

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