April 2012 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[New: openFATE 310701] package byobu in an opensuse repository
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 28 Jan '19

28 Jan '19

Feature added by: Divan Santana (divansantana7) Feature #310701, revision 1 Title: package byobu in an opensuse repository openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Divan Santana (divansantana7) Description: Would be great if anyone using opensuse could zypper in byobu . Unfortunately it's not in any opensuse repo despite it being a great tool for administrating linux servers. I'm quite surprised this isn't already available for opensuse. Would be a nice addition for 11.4 -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310701

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[New: openFATE 308445] Tor is not working out of box
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 29 Nov '18

29 Nov '18

Feature added by: Algimantas B (algyzas) Feature #308445, revision 1 Title: Tor is not working out of box Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Neutral Requested by: Algimantas B (algyzas) Description: Let's say I installed tor, it is came alone, without privoxy. One should download it manually. And then if I try :~> screen torify konqueror hich: no tsocks in (/home/senis/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/jvm/jre/bin:/usr/lib/mit/bin:/usr/lib/mit/sbin:.) /usr/bin/torify: Can't find tsocks in PATH. Perhaps you haven't installed it? [screen is terminating] There is a guide http://en.opensuse.org/Privoxy_tor_squid how to setup it, I'll try it, but in some other distributions it works out of box like this. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308445

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[New: openFATE 309627] Enhance 'Safely Remove' to spin-down and power-off usb HDDs
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 07 Nov '18

07 Nov '18

Feature added by: Pete Clayson (Olmy) Feature #309627, revision 1 Title: Enhance 'Safely Remove' to spin-down and power-off usb HDDs openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Pete Clayson (olmy) Description: 'Safely remove' should (as far as possible) allow for genuine safe removal of all media. Under certain other OSs, the 'safely remove' option on usb devices will... 1/ On usb pen drive with a power/activity led, switch it off (trivial nicety, but reassuring). 2/ On usb HDDs, spin down the disk and power off. This seems more important. There is some discussion about this, for example, http://elliotli.blogspot.com/2009/01/safely-remove-usb-hard-drive-in-linux.… (http://elliotli.blogspot.com/2009/01/safely-remove-usb-hard-drive-in-linux.…) I know that the latest version of Ubuntu does this and there is a script offered in the above link. However, the script, as it stands and run on my installation of OpenSUSE, does not seem to work (in the same way as WinXP or Ubuntu, anyway - my WD600D036 disk does not power off) despite the positive messages in verbose mode. Perhaps this is the CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND option mentioned? -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309627

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[New: openFATE 312838] Hook up fwzs to NetworkManager
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 19 Jun '18

19 Jun '18

Feature added by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Feature #312838, revision 1 Title: Hook up fwzs to NetworkManager Hackweek VII: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Switching zones in the firewall zone switcher is currently a manual task. NM needs to provide hooks to make fwzs adjust the firewall automatically. http://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/08/28/firewall-zone-switcher-updated/ http://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/07/10/1453/ -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312838

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[New: openFATE 311089] Disable system bell by default if sound card is installed
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 21 Apr '18

21 Apr '18

Feature added by: Pieter De Decker (pdedecker) Feature #311089, revision 1 Title: Disable system bell by default if sound card is installed openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Pieter De Decker (pdedecker) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: One of the first things I do after installing openSUSE is disabling the system bell by adding this to ~/.inputrc: set bell-style none Its volume is needlessly high. The bell scares the hell outta me whenever it creeps up because I backspaced too much on the command line. My suggestion: disable the system bell by default, unless no sound card is installed. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: It's a simple fix for something that has been bugging me forever. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311089

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[openFATE 308182] Create administrator tool for replicating OBS resources
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 20 Apr '18

20 Apr '18

Feature added by: Adrian Schröter (adrianSuSE) Feature #308182, revision 1 Title: Create administrator tool for replicating OBS resources Buildservice: Evaluation Priority Requester: Desirable Projectmanager: Desirable Requested by: Adrian Schröter (adriansuse) Description: A tool for replicate defined projects from a remote OBS instance to a local instance would be helpfull. This should offer different levels of replication depth: * Just latest sources or including past source history (maybe with a date limiter) * Replicate binaries for :full tree ( to be able to bootstrap yourself ) or all binaries from package directories. The tools would be helpfull as CLI and/or as part of the admin web frontend. The remote instance should be access via the frontend api, while the local instance must be accessed via backend source and rep server (+ local frontend api for creating projects and packages). -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308182

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[New: openFATE 310652] Have an Etherpad install on openSUSE infrastructure
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 28 Mar '18

28 Mar '18

Feature added by: Jos Poortvliet (jospoortvliet) Feature #310652, revision 1 Title: Have an Etherpad install on openSUSE infrastructure openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Jos Poortvliet (jospoortvliet) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Currently the marketing team in particular makes use of lots of piratepad's to work collaboratively on articles, announcements, plans and other things. Wiki's don't offer the ease and real-time collaboration features needed so piratepad is perfect. Except that it isn't. Piratepad has some serious issues (see "Why do we want this?"). So we would like to have an Etherpad install on openSUSE infrastructure. Having our 'own' Etherpad instance on an openSUSE server would solve these issues. Even just having it as a SUSE Studio virtual image so it can be run somewhere would be good enough. In general, the openSUSE servers are pretty dependable and even when not, we know who to ping to solve problems. Use Case: Usecase would be pretty much half the work the marketing team does - writing announcements, articles, planning... Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: The current 'solution' to use Piratepad has a bunch of issues: Stability is a big one - Piratepad is down quite frequently, sometimes for a whole day, making our work difficult. Another serious issue is oversight. We can't see what pads we have, resulting in lost pads (and the work we put into them) and duplication of efforts. Then there is the lack of control. All piratepads are fully public - but we have sometimes things we'd like to keep under the lid like announcements we are working on, articles, board things etcetera. Etherpad provides access control which would help us immensely. Part of that control issue is the ability (or lack there off) of deleting pads - we can't do that on Piratepad. Finally, we don't OWN Piratepad. If it went away RIGHT NOW, we would loose MANY important articles, announcements and other good work. It would be a small disaster for the marketing team and it's getting potentially worse as we do more and more work on Etherpad. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310652

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[New: openFATE 312804] Hermes integration on the openSUSE wiki
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 28 Mar '18

28 Mar '18

Feature added by: Sebastian Oliva (tian2992) Feature #312804, revision 1 Title: Hermes integration on the openSUSE wiki openSUSE Infrastructure: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Sebastian Oliva (tian2992) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: An extension to the wiki software, to add Hermes support to the Wiki software, enabling digests and advanced notifications to the Watch List. Use Case: Anna edited the openSUSE wiki, adding a tutorial to configure repositories. She subscribes to the page and enables notifications. When John edits the page, Anna gets a twitter notification, letting her know, there was an edition in the page. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312804

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[New: openFATE 308899] allow repository specification in project meta xml
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 27 Feb '18

27 Feb '18

Feature added by: Adrian Schröter (adrianSuSE) Feature #308899, revision 1 Title: allow repository specification in project meta xml Buildservice: Evaluation Priority Requester: Important Projectmanager: Important Requested by: Adrian Schröter (adriansuse) Description: We have currently to set Type, Repotype and Patterntype in project conf data. That makes it hard to add an images repo easily with a gui that works. Before creating code interpreting the prjconf, I would like to suggest to extend repository xml element to define this as default. Opinions ? Feature is completed when we have an "Add kiwi images repository" button. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308899

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[New: openFATE 308619] Provide Kwallet integration for Firefox
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 25 Feb '18

25 Feb '18

Feature added by: Jimmy Berry (boombatower) Feature #308619, revision 1 Title: Provide Kwallet integration for Firefox openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Jimmy Berry (boombatower) Description: I have wanted such a feature for sometime and recently discoved https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/49357 via identi.ca talk. Since openSUSE 11.2 includes KDE integration for Firefox, I think this would be a great thing to either add/finish/polish or just defaultly include as part of integration. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308619

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[New: openFATE 310922] central system user registry
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Feb '18

12 Feb '18

Feature added by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Feature #310922, revision 1 Title: central system user registry openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Once upon a time all systems users were defined in aaa_base via the default /etc/passwd file. When the uid space below uid 100 got too small a new dynamic range between 100 and 499 was introduced. So nowadays packages dynamically create a user in %pre which gets a random uid in this range. Disadvantage: uids are different on every system. Usually this is not a problem but for programs that export files over the network it is. TV recordings made by VDR for example. useradd has a --preferred-uid option for such cases. It's possible to specify a uid and useradd tries to use it. If it's already taken another one is chosen. Thefore I'd propose to leverage that feature: - introduce a central uid registry for system users, e.g a file in aaa_base - lower SYSTEM_UID_MAX (/etc/login.defs) to e.g. 349 and assign "preferred uids" in the rage 350-499. - change useradd calls in packages to a macro that transparently decides whether a preferred uid needs to be used. Use Case: - two systems running vdr, one for recording, the other one for playback on a TV want to share recordings via nfs. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310922

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[New: openFATE 310464] Changer text console color
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 30 Jan '18

30 Jan '18

Feature added by: Максим Муруев (slimy) Feature #310464, revision 1 Title: Changer text console color openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Максим Муруев (slimy) Description: Feature for yast change console color. And green color for console by default. I think green is opensuse color. For first console stay white, for best look boot log. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310464

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[New: openFATE 310680] Make Icon Theme installer only show .tar.gz themes
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 30 Jan '18

30 Jan '18

Feature added by: 6tr6tr 6tr6tr (6tr6tr) Feature #310680, revision 1 Title: Make Icon Theme installer only show .tar.gz themes openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: 6tr6tr 6tr6tr (6tr6tr) Description: I recently tried installing new icon themes into openSUSE 11.3 via the Configure Desktop app. It showed a lot of themes with an "install" button, but when I pressed it, nothing happened. It turns out, that's because it only installs .tar.gz files and a number of the themes listed are in other formats. So the "Get New Themes..." popup should only show files it can actually install. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310680

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[openFate 305144] [Feature-request] Yast as a Linux learning tool
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 30 Jan '18

30 Jan '18

Feature added by: Arvin Schnell <aschnell(a)novell.com> Feature #305144, revision 1, last change by Title: [Feature-request] Yast as a Linux learning tool openSUSE-11.1: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Alexey Eremenko <al4321(a)gmail.com> Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Hi All ! I Have very good new idea: converting Yast into a Linux learning tool. This is very simple to achieve: Yast must show the commands it executes and files it modifies, in a nice GUI dialog. It will allow all kinds of Linux users understand how things really work. Enable learn new things or remind how old-but-forgotten things work for seasoned people. Great, isn't it ? P.S. Jay Vollmer recommends, that among the commands that Yast shows as it executing, it should also recommend "man pages" for the relevant underlying commands. -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov", 29.jul.2008. Discussion: #1: Alexey Eremenko <al4321(a)gmail.com> (2008-07-29 12:09:11) Rajko M. wrote: If one wants to see what is gong on in background, than look at logs in realtime. There is console (Konsole) and command tail. Run as root: tail -f /var/log/YaST2/y2log and then start YaST and play with. -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov", 29.jul.2008. #2: Jerry Houston <jerry.houston(a)comcast.net> (2008-07-29 15:41:34) Sounds like a great way for new users to learn more about what's under the hood. Or, what's under the bonnet, for the Brits. #3: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis(a)novell.com> (2008-07-31 07:11:21) Moving to maintainers to decide. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305144

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[openFATE 307545] Add openSUSE's Bugzilla and openFATE to Firefox's Bookmarks folder.
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 30 Jan '18

30 Jan '18

Feature added by: Ricardo Varas (RicardoVarasSantana) Feature #307545, revision 1 Title: Add openSUSE's Bugzilla and openFATE to Firefox's Bookmarks folder. openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Ricardo Varas (ricardovarassantana) Description: I am thinking about the importance of those two features being included in openSUSE's Brand of Firefox, in case the user needs or feels like filing a bug or requesting and/or checking new features, For new users it'd become a much easier task having those items bookmarked by default. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307545

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[openFATE 306972] produce proper diffs for status update mails
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Jan '18

02 Jan '18

Feature added by: Karsten König (remur) Feature #306972, revision 1 Title: produce proper diffs for status update mails openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Karsten König (remur) Description: Beeing interested in a very active feature request like https://features.opensuse.org/306967 results in a lot of mails, all which contain the full feature request with all the comments, it'd be nice if one could switch to a more bugzilla like behaviour so you only see what's changed, or in case it is an awnser maybe quote the previous message as well, but finding 4 lines tagged with + in a thread where people feel +1 beeing a proper comment is somewhat awkward. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306972

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[openFATE 305931] Temporary Build Support (aka mbuild)
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Jan '18

02 Jan '18

Feature added by: Adrian Schröter (adrianSuSE) Feature #305931, revision 1, last change by Title: Temporary Build Support (aka mbuild) Buildservice: Evaluation Priority Requester: Important Projectmanager: Important Requested by: Adrian Schröter (adriansuse) Description: A temporary build support is wanted to obsolete what we currently have internal as mbuild. A temporary Build should fullfill the following requirements: * Upload of local sources without the need to create a project or package namespace manually. * Build as part of an existing project, without the need to have write access there and without to modify it. * Build results should be stored and downloadable for X time. Afterwards they need to get removed automatically. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305931

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[New: openFATE 309271] Buildservice should show signing key status
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 20 Nov '17

20 Nov '17

Feature added by: Marcus Rückert (darix) Feature #309271, revision 1 Title: Buildservice should show signing key status Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Marcus Rückert (darix) Description: 13:04:55 < stbuehler> darix: W: GPG error: http://download.opensuse.org ./ Release: The following signatures were invalid: KEYEXPIRED 1270156083 (http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/Tools/Debian_5.0/) It would be nice if the obs would show the expiry date atleast in the webui. some OSC integration would be nice aswell. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309271

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[New: openFATE 312047] make repo keys available on project's web site via SSL
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Sep '17

26 Sep '17

Feature added by: John McInnes (jamjamjamjam) Feature #312047, revision 1 Title: make repo keys available on project's web site via SSL Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: John McInnes (jamjamjamjam) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: I was thinking of a way to get repo keys to users in a secure fashion, so they can have some measure of trust, instead of just blindly accepting/importing new keys when installing software. Personally, before accepting a key, I will usually try to google it by ID or fingerprint, search various gpg key servers, ask on a mailing list or newsgroup for 3rd party verification, etc... its a pain in the ***. So I see that the buildservice provides a https interface to project pages. It would be a nice feature to provide the project repo keys there. At least show ID and fingerprint. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312047

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[New: openFATE 308207] Help users to print two sided pages
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 17 Sep '17

17 Sep '17

Feature added by: Luís Nogueira (luisnogueira) Feature #308207, revision 1 Title: Help users to print two sided pages Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Luís Nogueira (luisnogueira) Description: http://forum.kde.org/brainstorm.php#idea82537 Manual duplex printing it's easy at windows. We should implement this feature! And it's environment friend. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308207

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[New: openFATE 309019] mtp support for opensuse and dolphin
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Sep '17

12 Sep '17

Feature added by: Agustin Chavarria (dj_ubun_1) Feature #309019, revision 1 Title: mtp support for opensuse and dolphin openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Agustin Chavarria (dj_ubun_1) Description: Some peoples have music players, and they can't navigate to this files of music player, just using amarok or other apps. The mtp support for dolphin it's an important feature, i have a philips PSA610, and i never can use this music player in linux :S -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309019

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[openFate 305737] remove warning of missing swap from expert partitioner
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Sep '17

12 Sep '17

Feature added by: Arvin Schnell (aschnell) Feature #305737, revision 1, last change by Title: remove warning of missing swap from expert partitioner openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Arvin Schnell (aschnell) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: There are requests to remove the warning about a missing swap device from the expert partitioner for systems with only SSDs. I want to go one step further and remove the warning altogether since RAM has increased so much in the past. Relations: - proposal for SSD (novell/bugzilla/id: 467874) https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467874 -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305737

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[New: openFATE 312137] Equivalent of nvidia-settings for Nouveau
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 10 Sep '17

10 Sep '17

Feature added by: Audard Guillaume (AGui) Feature #312137, revision 1 Title: Equivalent of nvidia-settings for Nouveau openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Audard Guillaume (agui) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: The open source driver for Nvidia GPU, Nouveau, is more and more performant. It is already fully usable instead of the proprietary driver. However, there is no GUI to configure display. SaX2 module is not available anymore in YaST in openSUSE 11.4, and there is no way to make modifications such as defining the dpi. Developping an equivalent of nvidia-settings for Nouveau would push even more users to switch to open source drivers. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312137

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[openFATE 308149] KDE needs to have a touchpad configuration utility.
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 10 Sep '17

10 Sep '17

Feature added by: Rafael Belmonte (EagleScreen) Feature #308149, revision 1 Title: KDE needs to have a touchpad configuration utility. openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Rafael Belmonte (eaglescreen) Description: KDE needs a touchpad configuration tool, if Sax2 does not provide it, you can package a new kcm module: kcm_touchpad, which can configure synaptics based touchpads, you can find it in KDE-Apps: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/kcm_touchpad?content=113335 -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308149

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[New: openFATE 310706] zypper: allow to adjust proposed solver solution
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 10 Sep '17

10 Sep '17

Feature added by: Ján Kupec (jkupec) Feature #310706, revision 1 Title: zypper: allow to adjust proposed solver solution openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Ján Kupec (jkupec) Description: It would be nice if it would be possible to change the solver solution at the point when the installation summary is shown and zypper prompts whether to continue. This would allow the user to conveniently remove unwanted packages automatically chosen for installation, add another package, etc. This is especially needed if it is difficult to work one's way to the solution (in case of many dependency problems, e.g. during an upgrade). Removing, adding, and keeping an installed version of a package could be implemented as part of this feature request first. Further enhancements can be done later. Use Case: During a dist-upgrade, user goes through a lot of solver problems. Then sees something unwanted in the summary. Currently the only solution is to quit, lock a package or change some command line options, restart the dist-upgrade and go through all the painfull solving again. With this feature the user would have a good chance of changing the summary in a convenient way. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310706

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