March 2012 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[New: openFATE 311072] Turn quilt into a noarch package
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 31 May '12

31 May '12

Feature added by: Jean Delvare (jdelvare) Feature #311072, revision 1 Title: Turn quilt into a noarch package Hackweek VI: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Jean Delvare (jdelvare) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Even though it is mainly made of bash and perl scripts, quilt is currently arch-specific. This is caused by one small helper binary names backup-files. The source code of this small helper binary accounts for about 7.5 % of the total code. The helper could be rewritten in bash, and actually this has been done already. Debian reportedly uses a patch that does exactly this for 4 years now: http://www.mail-archive.com/quilt-dev@nongnu.org/msg01137.html While having this helper in bash rather than binary form certainly has an impact on performance, it should be possible to minimize this impact with some work. Also, virtually every piece of quilt could be rewritten in C for better performance, but performance was hardly the point of quilt in the first place. So, the goal of this hackweek project is to get rid of backup-files in its C form, and convert it to bash. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311072

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[New: openFATE 311174] theme for gnome 3
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 30 May '12

30 May '12

Feature added by: ernesto figueroa (alolinux) Feature #311174, revision 1 Title: theme for gnome 3 openSUSE.org: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: ernesto figueroa (alolinux) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: sonar is a theme for gnome 2.3 oxigen is a theme for kde but no themes for gnome 3 /gnome-shell would be really innovative and make a theme , and have to go in style from 11.4 -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311174

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[New: openFATE 313288] Opensuse 12.2 - adopt kernel 3.4
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 28 May '12

28 May '12

Feature added by: Jedi Beeftrix (Jedibeeftrix) Feature #313288, revision 1 Title: Opensuse 12.2 - adopt kernel 3.4 openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Jedi Beeftrix (jedibeeftrix) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Why? Better Btrfs support: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA1ODY Better Intel graphics support: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA2MTI Is it possible? Well, 3.3 is due in a weeks time: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA2NTY And three months is the normal release period for the kernel, which puts it 3.4 at June 10th. This is before the first opensuse 12.2 release candidate: Thursday, 24 May 2012: openSUSE 12.2 Beta Thursday, 14 June 2012: openSUSE 12.2 RC 1 -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313288

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[New: openFATE 312880] change QCAD to LibreCAD
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 14 May '12

14 May '12

Feature added by: Jose Soriano (Rallaz) Feature #312880, revision 1 Title: change QCAD to LibreCAD openSUSE 12.1: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Jose Soriano (rallaz) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Remove the very old unmantained QCAD (it requires QT3!!!) and add LibreCAD a mantained port to QT4 http://librecad.org -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312880

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[New: openFATE 312839] Creating SLES11 SP1(x86_64) as paravirtualized guest OS with Oracle VM 3.0
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 14 May '12

14 May '12

Feature added by: Chen wu (ericwu_vip) Feature #312839, revision 1 Title: Creating SLES11 SP1(x86_64) as paravirtualized guest OS with Oracle VM 3.0 Hackweek VII: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Chen wu (ericwu_vip) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Oracle VM 3.0 is the latest release of Oracle's server virtualization and management solution. Currently, SLES does not in the platforms list that supported by Oracle VM 3.0. Hope that support for SLES can be added to OVM 3.0 release notes. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312839

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[New: openFATE 310380] grub2 bootonce or bootnext command
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 09 May '12

09 May '12

Feature added by: Lee Matheson (oldcpu) Feature #310380, revision 1 Title: grub2 bootonce or bootnext command openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Lee Matheson (oldcpu) Description:  With the possibility of Grub2 being implemented soon as a default boot manager, it would be useful to add to the Grub2 packaging a small script that fully emulates the older grubonce that is provided with openSUSE-11.3 and earlier. The philosophy is from run level 3, or from a desktop that does not support the capability to selectively reboot ONCE (and only ONCE) into another boot partition, one can run a command that allows this one time reboot functionality. This was achieved with the "grubonce" command on openSUSE-11.3 (and earlier) and other distributions (for the older grub version) used perl scripts such as bootnext (on Fedora: http://www.dcheng.members.sonic.net/friends/jspaar/pub/bootnext/ ). There is an example here on openSUSE forums as to the utility of the grubonce command and how it can be applied: http://forums.opensuse.org/english/information-new-users/unreviewed-how-faq… The grub2-reboot command is lacking (in comparison to grubonce) in that it appears it can not be used to generate the re-boot selection menu. Hence I propose a small script/application be provided with openSUSE-11.4 (or 12.0) that functions similar to the scripts proposed in http://forums.opensuse.org/english/information-new-users/unreviewed-how-faq… or as a minium functions with the full capability of the "grubonce" (which grub2-reboot lacks). -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310380

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[openFATE 306928] Better integration of YaST webpin client into openSUSE
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 09 May '12

09 May '12

Feature added by: Katarina Machalkova (kmachalkova) Feature #306928, revision 1 Title: Better integration of YaST webpin client into openSUSE Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Katarina Machalkova (kmachalkova) Description: <p><a href="http://hedgehogpainter.livejournal.com/#asset-hedgehogpainter-4686">YaST webpin client</a> is done and usable since quite some time already, yet its integration into platform is far from being smooth. openSUSE users have very few chances to learn about it in order to use it. This feature consists of two parts:<ul> <li> Webpin search client will be accessible and launchable from menu entry, added to Qt/Gtk/Ncurses package selectors </li><li> New package yast2-packager-webpin will be splitted off yast2-packager, containing webpin module, client + additional .desktop file </li></ul>The purpose of the latter is not to clutter YaST control centre with too many icons, installed along with yast2-packager (which is in default installation). This way, user will get extra icon only if yast2-packager-webpin</p> -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306928

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[openFATE 306624] voting mechanism for membership approval on users.o.o
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 08 May '12

08 May '12

Feature added by: Hendrik Vogelsang (hennevogel) Feature #306624, revision 1 Title: voting mechanism for membership approval on users.o.o Hackweek IV: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Hendrik Vogelsang (hennevogel) Description: To be better able to vote on membership approvals the openSUSE board is looking for some ruby hacker willing to implement a voting mechanism in users.opensuse.org. users.o.o is a ruby on rails application. Pepple that want to become openSUSE members fill out an application form in users.o.o. This is then evaluated by the openSUSE board. Each application is voted upon. What is missing in users.o.o is the possiblity to vote on those applications. This would need a couple of things: Each application needs a state attribute with the following content: * New * To be Accepted * Accepted * To be Rejected * Rejected Also the respective listings in the interface are needed. And for each board member an voting field. (+1,0,-1) coupled with a free text field. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306624

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[openFATE 307436] Backup utility
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 07 May '12

07 May '12

Feature added by: Alin M Elena (ealin) Feature #307436, revision 1 Title: Backup utility openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Alin M Elena (ealin) Description: Hi, Would be nice if we can have an user backup application by default in kde4. I propose back-in-time http://backintime.le-web.org/ it has both kde4 and gnome interfaces and is relatively simple to use. regards, Alin -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307436

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[New: openFATE 309311] GUI for PAM
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 04 May '12

04 May '12

Feature added by: The Liberator (L1B3RAT0R) Feature #309311, revision 1 Title: GUI for PAM openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: The Liberator (l1b3rat0r) Description: I would like to see some kind of YAST-like tool for implementing PAM features for all types of logins. As it is now you can attempt unlimited logins via the terminal or a locked KDE screen. If there was a GUI for PAM that allowed the user to set maximum password tries, time-frames that login is allowed, and how long a session can last, then our computers would be much more secure. I have an encrypted hard drive, but once the computer is booted up and the hard drive is decrypted, I have no way of stopping a brute force attack. For the average user, PAM is too complicated to use all its features without reading for hours. This seems like the perfect feature to add to YAST. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309311

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