May 2012 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[New: openFATE 313434] yast simplification
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 13 Sep '12

13 Sep '12

Feature added by: Alexandre Bonhomme (abonhomm) Feature #313434, revision 1 Title: yast simplification openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Alexandre Bonhomme (abonhomm) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Make yast more user friendly : sort aller features (incl. Kde config tool with only one structure and place : merge apper zypper and yast). Se drakeconf as an inspiration source. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313434

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[New: openFATE 313151] opensuse 12.2: kde update conflicts - there needs to be only one!
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 13 Sep '12

13 Sep '12

Feature added by: Jedi Beeftrix (Jedibeeftrix) Feature #313151, revision 1 Title: opensuse 12.2: kde update conflicts - there needs to be only one! openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Jedi Beeftrix (jedibeeftrix) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: not a technical person so only a limited ability to explain this, but here goes: back in the day we used YAST, it found updates and installed them, all was good in the world. then we needed desktop notifiers to inform the user that new updates were available, and all was good in the world. then we decided that the notifier ought to be able to install updates, and two parallel systems were born, and was conflict brought into the world. then we had kpackagekit which promised to return the user to the blessed lands of all, but the dream was not realised. then apper arrived promising to correct the flaws of kpackagekit, but still we get conflicts were one service is blocked by the (invisible) operation of the other. ---------------------------- We need a simpler system: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-kde/2012-01/msg00144.html for 12.2, can we make apper call YAST to install updates, or YAST use packagekit as the 'backend', but not have two parallel systems of updates that invariably tie themselves in knots? kind regards JBT -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313151

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[New: openFATE 313307] Create SUSE OS Tablet Product
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 13 Sep '12

13 Sep '12

Feature added by: Scott Couston (zczc2311) Feature #313307, revision 1 Title: Create SUSE OS Tablet Product openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Scott Couston (zczc2311) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: With IT trends moving so quickly, Sales for IPAD-II and IPAD-III already outsell ALL PC based Hardware across the world and a the new phrase of "Post PC era" is now a common place reality. As of the 8th of March 2010, the IPAD-III is due for release in .AU in two weeks and current interest/sales figures are extraordinary. .AU always gets the first release of new hardware to test the market before release in .US/UK etc. Testing the .AU Market place first and foremost has been the same for Microsoft/Apple and countless O/S as the market is small enough and has a large number of hi tech users, isues a fixed before world release - Nothing new about that its been happening for 25 years - The IPAD-II will remain for sale. Apple has no current reason to terminate the IPAD-II as functionally the IPAD-III offers much the same functionality but with massively increased GPU/CPU processing ability and extraordinary screen rez which is well above a standard HD TV.The camera has increased number of Pixels and talk to text ability like we have never seen before - Its uncannily accurate in speak to text interface - Speak to text has now come of age. We need to do two things for our very survival as Tablet sales/users are now far greater than any PC group, Hardware and O/S irrelevant. First create the Product Suse Linux for Tablets as an O/S! Secondly start immediately to create SUSE Linux O/S for Tablets no matter who manufactures them. Not merely application, but a whole O/S and apps - otherwise and based on sales per unit; the PC as we know it wont exist only tablets and IBM Z/Series Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: ......for our very survival and because we can do this relatively easily -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313307

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[openFate 305148] Automatic Compiling of Kernel Modules
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 04 Sep '12

04 Sep '12

Feature added by: Andreas Jaeger <aj(a)novell.com> Feature #305148, revision 1, last change by Title: Automatic Compiling of Kernel Modules openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Andreas Jaeger <aj(a)novell.com> Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: The Standard Linux-Kernel provides a lot of hardware drivers/kernel modules. Nevertheless there are still devices not supported by the kernel. If a user compiles a kernel module by himself, he has to redo this step after each kernel update (if he is aware at all, that this step is needed). My idea was to install kernel-source, kernel-syms, gcc and make with each standard installation and to define a standard directory for the source code of kernel modules, e.g /usr/src/updates. When a Kernel Update is done, the system looks on boot in /usr/src/updates for directories and does there a 'make' and 'make install'. (build a kmp-package ?) If this could become a standard for other distributions (LSB) as well and corresponding init scripts would exist, third party kernel modules could be installed automagically after extracting code to /usr/src/update, so there would be some kind of standard for installing external kernel modules. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305148

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[New: openFATE 309034] Complete move to PolicyKit 1
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 27 Aug '12

27 Aug '12

Feature added by: Vincent Untz (vuntz) Feature #309034, revision 1 Title: Complete move to PolicyKit 1 openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Vincent Untz (vuntz) Description: PoliycKit < 1 is old, non-maintained. For 11.3, we should make sure to move everything to the new polkit. Looking at the packages that still require PolicyKit-devel to build (ie, the old PolicyKit stack), we only have a few packages to fix. * cups-pk-helper: will be fixed when I released 0.1.0 upstream (soon) * hal: kay has a fixed package in home:kay_sievers:branches:Base:System * PolicyKit-gnome: only needed for GNOME integration of old PolicyKit * polkit-qt: no idea * ruby-polkit: no idea * smpppd: patch submitted (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=580719) * yast2-dbus-server: no idea -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309034

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[openFate 305493] Look at plymouth for splash during boot
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 27 Aug '12

27 Aug '12

Feature added by: Vincent Untz <vuntz(a)novell.com> Feature #305493, revision 1, last change by Title: Look at plymouth for splash during boot openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Vincent Untz <vuntz(a)novell.com> Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: I wanted to open a fate feature about this when I first heard of plymouth, but reading http://fedoramagazine.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/interview-fedora-10s-better-… really makes me think we should go this way. Ray's comment starting with "Every flicker and mode change in the boot process takes away from the whole experience." is especially interesting. Is it okay to track the "don't show grub by default" here? -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305493

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[New: openFATE 311066] Autoconfiguration of Eucalyptus Cloud
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 24 Aug '12

24 Aug '12

Feature added by: J. Daniel Schmidt (jdsn) Feature #311066, revision 1 Title: Autoconfiguration of Eucalyptus Cloud Hackweek VI: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Neutral Requested by: J. Daniel Schmidt (jdsn) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Since end of 2010 the packages for Eucalyptus Cloud have been improved in order to work out of the box on SUSE systems. Nevertheless it requires a lot of manual configuration work to setup an entire cloud. The goal of this hackweek project is to autoconfigure as much as possible (avahi/zeroconf) and maybe provide a simple configuration tool to prompt for the remaining information and set it up. If time permits we try to provide SUSE Studio images for all Eucalyptus controllers. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311066

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[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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