March 2012 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[New: openFATE 310622] Run xserver without root privileges
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 15 Mar '12

15 Mar '12

Feature added by: Jose Ricardo De Leon Solis (derhundchen) Feature #310622, revision 1 Title: Run xserver without root privileges openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Jose Ricardo De Leon Solis (derhundchen) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Now that we have KMS enabled in the distribution we are a step closer of being able to run the xserver with just user privileges, and thus making openSUSE more secure. About a year ago I read a blog post of a moblin developer stating that achieving this is not that hard, but I've yet to see another distro achieving it. Nevertheless I think we can start to think about it. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: It all boils down to increase the security of openSUSE, as stated above. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310622

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[New: openFATE 313312] Avoid duplicate use of IP addresses
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Mar '12

12 Mar '12

Feature added by: Lars Müller (lmuelle) Feature #313312, revision 1 Title: Avoid duplicate use of IP addresses openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Lars Müller (lmuelle) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: We have to consider to change the default setting /etc/sysconfig/network/config:CHECK_DUPLICATE_IP to "yes". DAD (Duplicate Address Detection) is recommended by RFC 2131. See also RFC 3927 and 5227. This is how Microsoft handles it since Windows NT version 4.0 Service Pack 3. If I get it right Apple follows this approach too. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313312

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[New: openFATE 313273] Add rusxmms patch to taglib
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

Feature added by: Alexander Mityunin (xandry) Feature #313273, revision 1 Title: Add rusxmms patch to taglib Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Alexander Mityunin (xandry) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: For automatic recognition of encodings in tags openSUSE need to add the patch project rusxmms. This patch already use in Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=384573 and ALT Linux: https://bugzilla.altlinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9550 RusXMMS home page: http://rusxmms.sourceforge.net/ Test Case: Without rusxmms patch: http://img-eburg.fotki.yandex.ru/get/4611/62628870.0/0_6c865_9e9aebe9_orig http://img-eburg.fotki.yandex.ru/get/4611/62628870.0/0_6c866_110d0a33_orig After sudo zypper dup -r home_tuoma: http://img-eburg.fotki.yandex.ru/get/6201/62628870.0/0_6e86e_bdcd75c3_orig Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: At the moment this is not happening. A couple of for comfortable listening to music, Russian-speaking users have to use the repository http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/tuoma/OpenSUSE_12.1/ Without patched taglib tags in the encodings which differ from the utf-8 impossible to read. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313273

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[New: openFATE 313308] IntegratePIM-Sync Solution (e.g. SyncEvolution)
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

Feature added by: Alex Müller (Larx) Feature #313308, revision 1 Title: IntegratePIM-Sync Solution (e.g. SyncEvolution) openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Alex Müller (larx) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: openSUSE lacks a proper solution for synchronization with PIM devices etc. (Only speaking for KDE, as I don't use Gnome). There is in some repository Kitchensync, but that seems unmaintained and stagnating. Opensync does never seem to work, too. I recently discovered SyncEvolution. In contrary to what the name suggest, current versions not only support Evolution, but there is also an Akonadi backend, and seemingly also a Qt interface is in the works. Fedora packages work on openSUSE 12.1 for a test run. Maybe this could be a cross-desktop sync solution. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313308

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[New: openFATE 313145] Split out kernel documentation from kernel-source
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 07 Mar '12

07 Mar '12

Feature added by: matthias propst (l1zard) Feature #313145, revision 1 Title: Split out kernel documentation from kernel-source Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: matthias propst (l1zard) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Just was installing kernel-source package to get the fully documentation to the linux kernel in the the Documentation sub directory. This was also installing some kernel development packages. Would it not be better to package this information in the kernel-doc package or even better in an extra package. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313145

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[New: openFATE 310517] DKIM and DomainKeys support
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 07 Mar '12

07 Mar '12

Feature added by: Peter Bowen (pzb) Feature #310517, revision 1 Title: DKIM and DomainKeys support openSUSE-11.4: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Peter Bowen (pzb) Description: Most of the large email service providers (gmail, yahoo, hotmail/live, aol, ...) are using DKIM checking as part of their anti-spam filtering systems. We should make it very easy for users to configure their mail server to sign mail as it goes out. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310517

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[New: openFATE 308480] Add Chromium browser to the distro
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 06 Mar '12

06 Mar '12

Feature added by: Frank Vanderham (twelveeighty) Feature #308480, revision 1 Title: Add Chromium browser to the distro openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Frank Vanderham (twelveeighty) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: The Google Chromium browser is taking over most Windows users desktops. Why? Because it is a very, very good browser that most Linux users want: minimalistic, fast and open-source. What more do we want? Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Chromium is a fast, minimalistic and open-source browser that is on a LOT of Windows desktops. Not only is it a great browser to use, but if a Windows user is used to it and can't have it on openSUSE, they won't switch. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308480

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[openFATE 307748] autokey
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 06 Mar '12

06 Mar '12

Feature added by: Erik Luijten (luijten) Feature #307748, revision 1 Title: autokey Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Erik Luijten (luijten) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: I very much would like the autokey package (currently only on Ubuntu) to be included in openSuSE. URL: http://autokey.sourceforge.net/ Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: There seems to be no other general keyboard macro/textexpansion utility available for Linux, even though this is an important productivity tool. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307748

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[New: openFATE 309470] Add ConvertAll to repository
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 06 Mar '12

06 Mar '12

Feature added by: Ricardo Gabriel Berlasso (RGBsuse) Feature #309470, revision 1 Title: Add ConvertAll to repository Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Ricardo Gabriel Berlasso (rgbsuse) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: ConvertAll (http://convertall.bellz.org/index.html) is not just another unit conversion tool, ConvertAll is THE unit conversion tool because it is not limited to a list of units: you can build any combination you need. >From the site: With ConvertAll, you can combine the units any way you want. If you want to convert from inches per decade, that's fine. Or from meter-pounds. Or from cubic nautical miles. The units don't have to make sense to anyone else. Use Case: Students, teachers, researchers, engineers... anyone who need to perform bizarre unit conversion on a daily basis will find this app really useful. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: ConvertAll is a really useful tiny app. Written in py-qt and ready for translation through .po files it is really easy to use and very flexible. Even if it is really easy to install, I'm not sure how many people know this app: having it on repos will help not only to promote it, but also will help many people who need it but do not know its existence. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309470

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[New: openFATE 313084] Universal rpm symbol for browsers
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 06 Mar '12

06 Mar '12

Feature added by: Michal Vyskocil (mvyskocil) Feature #313084, revision 1 Title: Universal rpm symbol for browsers openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Michal Vyskocil (mvyskocil) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Moved from https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737105 icedtea-web should be pulled-in when browser and JRE is (or is requested to be) installed on a system. This can be solved easily: Supplements: packageand($BROWSER: java-openjdk) Which seems to be trivial, but ... short look at all packages in Productivity/Networking/Web/Browser (the first useful usage for rpm groups for me) shows me, we have 8(!) different browsers * MozillaFirefox * chromium * arora * konqueror * epiphany * reqkonq * midori * and opera fortunately we are talking about 3 (I assume konqueror now runs on webkit as well) render engines only, so it might be safe allow it for every browser. My proposal is add some universal symbol to all browser packages. I would say we can add: * one universal symbol 'browser' or browser-plugin (browser(plugin)) to distinguish between those are not capable use plugins * rendering core specific provides, so we will introduce 'gecko' (browser(gecko), 'webkit' and 'presto' (even it's not probable there will be derived browser on that engine. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313084

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