March 2012 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[openFATE 307461] SFLphone SIP Client
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 23 Aug '12

23 Aug '12

Feature added by: René Krell (renekrell) Feature #307461, revision 1 Title: SFLphone SIP Client Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: René Krell (renekrell) Description: it is a 'must' for a good distribution to include a few really working SIP clients for internet telephony. I suggest to introduce SFLphone (http://www.sflphone.org) into the distribution. It works well with the latest stable version 0.9.6 and provides a GNOME and a KDE/Qt4 client. What do you want more. Futhermore this fills the space in timeline for a missing KDE4 SIP client (kcall isn't really usable and Twinkle stucks on Qt3). -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307461

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[New: openFATE 309558] ProFont
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 20 Aug '12

20 Aug '12

Feature added by: Thomas Dziedzic (gostrc) Feature #309558, revision 1 Title: ProFont Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Thomas Dziedzic (gostrc) Description: This is one of the best programming fonts I have used. http://www.tobias-jung.de/seekingprofont/ Direct Download: http://www.tobiasjung.net/download.php?file=profont-x11.tar.gz -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309558

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[New: openFATE 312859] Publicize Archives of Historical SuSE Releases
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 15 Aug '12

15 Aug '12

Feature added by: Anomyous Anomyous (jcat123) Feature #312859, revision 1 Title: Publicize Archives of Historical SuSE Releases openSUSE Infrastructure: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Anomyous Anomyous (jcat123) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: One can use file watcher and find Live Evauation ISOs for versions of SuSE/SUSE back to 8.0. All releases before 8.0 were deleted from the FTP servers in 2005 and 2007. There should be a special directory on the openSUSE file server where these ISO images of these historical releases' Live Filesystems can be downloaded. Of course, ensure these are marked "For Historical Purposes Only" and recommend downloading a recent release. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: S.u.S.E., then SuSE, then SUSE, then SLE\openSUSE have a rich and far reaching history compared to other distributions. SuSE is one of the few surviving distros that go back into the 1990's. Each release of SUSE is a snapshot of what it was like to use Linux at one time. Knowing what the software looked like in the early days helps us better appreciate the distribution and is quite interesting to tinker with. A historical artifact of all our lives before the 1990's was something physically tangible. Now it is digital data. Putting out an archive of the oldest days of SuSE Linux would allow us to peer into the history of openSUSE, SLE, the Linux community and its various projects, free software and the development of computer technology in general. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312859

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[New: openFATE 312580] Add the packages: linux-atm-lib, smpppd and WvDial in: Live CD, USB Live...
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 15 Aug '12

15 Aug '12

Feature added by: Genix Info (genixinfo) Feature #312580, revision 1 Title: Add the packages: linux-atm-lib, smpppd and WvDial in: Live CD, USB Live... openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Genix Info (genixinfo) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Add the packages: linux-atm-lib (http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-atm/) , smpppd (http://en.opensuse.org/Smpppd) and WvDial (http://alumnit.ca/wiki/index.php?page=WvDial) in: Live CD, Live USB or installation DVD of openSUSE Linux 12.1 (http://en.opensuse.org/Main_Page) , can thus be made ââDSL Internet setup, the installation automatically, through automated configuration tool on CD Live, Live or USB installation DVD, I had to manually download and install packages, see the Mandriva Linux does it automatically, openSUSE Linux would have to install the needed packages automatically, as is done in Mandriva Linux (http://www.mandriva.com/) , facilitating the configuration of a DSL connection. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312580

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[New: openFATE 310161] Make Bento and www.opensuse.org translatable via PO files
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 15 Aug '12

15 Aug '12

Feature added by: Vojtech Zeisek (vojtaeus) Feature #310161, revision 1 Title: Make Bento and www.opensuse.org translatable via PO files openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Vojtech Zeisek (vojtaeus) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: It is possible to translate software.opensuse.org via PO file software-opensuse-org.XX.po i LCN i SVN. But more sites are using Bento theme. I did not find any way how to translate navigation bar, content of boxes in panels and so on of Bento theme. I'm not sure if content of the navigation line is same on all webs, but it is important to have translated ALL occurrences of Bento theme and translation has to be consistent - same for every site. Second similar problem is translation of content of www.opensuse.org/XX/ For example for Czech version I see mix of Czech and English version. Sometimes someone send HTML file and say "Please, translate it and we will include it to www.o.o", but it is not good way how to manage it. There is, for example, no way how to translate news or add language specific news. I'm not sure if PO files are best for translations of the web and Bento, but it is common and IMHO good way how to manage it. So, please, make ASAP Bento and content of www.o.o translatable and accessible for language specific edits. And keep translations of Bento easily consistent on all sites. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: For localized, consistent and easily translatable openSUSE sites. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310161

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[New: openFATE 311132] Compile Mesa and x-server with --enable-glx-tls
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 13 Aug '12

13 Aug '12

Feature added by: Iaroslav Andrusiak (pontostroy) Feature #311132, revision 1 Title: Compile Mesa and x-server with --enable-glx-tls Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Iaroslav Andrusiak (pontostroy) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Most famous Linux distributions are compile Mesa and x-server with --enable-glx-tls. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311132

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[New: openFATE 313038] Remove "tracker" from lxde
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 09 Aug '12

09 Aug '12

Feature added by: Lutz Thuns (lOtz1009) Feature #313038, revision 1 Title: Remove "tracker" from lxde openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Lutz Thuns (lotz1009) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: As LXDE is intended to provide a LEIGHTWEIGHT desktop environment, unnecessary bloats like tracker should not be provided with it. Unfortunately the openSUSE pattern for LXDE contains Brasero, which automatically brings tracker as a dependency. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: We want to keep a L ightweight- X - D esktop- E nvironment LIGHTWEIGHT. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313038

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[New: openFATE 311028] Add "Enable/disable numlock at startup" option to installer and YaST
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 04 Aug '12

04 Aug '12

Feature added by: Pieter De Decker (pdedecker) Feature #311028, revision 1 Title: Add "Enable/disable numlock at startup" option to installer and YaST openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Pieter De Decker (pdedecker) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Related thread: https://features.opensuse.org/310152 Some people who don't have a QWERTY layout can't use the numbers on the top of the keyboard. I'm an AZERTY user (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Belgian_pc_keyboard.svg) so I have to hold Shift to use the numbers on top of the keyboard. Therefore I usually prefer using the numpad, but that isn't possible if the numlock is switched off. Auto-enabling numlock at startup would be a huge time-saver. Some people on the other hand prefer having numlock switched off. Quoting Ned Ulbricht: "Enabling NumLock at boot would be very annoying on ThinkPads (and possibly other laptops) that overlay the numeric keypad on top of the alphabetic keys." I think the best way to resolve this little annoyance is to offer the user a choice during install as to what the default setting should be. Or even better: if it's possible to auto-detect which numlock setting is most desirable depending on the keyboard, the user doesn't even need to be presented this option. Additionally, I'd like to see this option added to the "System Keyboard Layout" applet in YaST. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: This satisfies people who need to disable numlock for their keyboard to work properly and people who prefer using the numpad. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311028

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[openFATE 307254] Use POSIX capabilities instead of suid
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 04 Aug '12

04 Aug '12

Feature added by: Pascal Bleser (pbleser) Feature #307254, revision 1 Title: Use POSIX capabilities instead of suid openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Pascal Bleser (pbleser) Description: Use POSIX file capabilities instead of suid processes and running e.g. Apache as root: * http://www.nuxified.org/blog/dear-distributors (http://www.nuxified.org/blog/dear-distributors) * http://www.friedhoff.org/posixfilecaps.html (http://www.friedhoff.org/posixfilecaps.html) * https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-July/msg01568.html (https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-July/msg01568.html) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307254

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[New: openFATE 311068] Akmod Equivalent for openSUSE
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Aug '12

02 Aug '12

Feature added by: Luke Wolf (LukeWolf) Feature #311068, revision 1 Title: Akmod Equivalent for openSUSE openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Luke Wolf (lukewolf) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Tumbleweed related as opposed to 11.4 related Fedora has this really nice tool called Akmod or Automatic Kernel Module, which builds kmods on boot when you load into a new kernel that doesn't have kmods or to use the openSUSE term kmps. As we now have a rolling release in openSUSE: Tumbleweed this kind of functionality is more important than ever. Unless there are plans for rebuilding the kmps for Tumbleweed each time there is a new kernel. Which doesn't seem to be the case with the Nvidia kmp only supporting up to 2.6.34 series. Use Case: A user wants to run the rolling release version as opposed to the version based version because it better suits his needs to not have to reinstall every 8 months, This user updates to all the latest packages in Tumbleweed but unfortunately the latest kmp is for the last version release and so the user is forced to fall back to either the open source drivers which as of yet are not up to the user's needs, or fall back to the older kernel. an Akmod equivalent would fix this problem Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Because we have a rolling release now and this rolling release has new kernels but there aren't for instance new Nvidia kmps to support it but an akmp or whatever you want to call it would fix that -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311068

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