March 2015 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[New: openFATE 315009] Native Android Application for openSUSE News and Planet
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 18 May '15

18 May '15

Feature added by: Rajul Bhatnagar (rajulbhatnagar) Feature #315009, revision 1 Title: Native Android Application for openSUSE News and Planet openSUSE.org: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Rajul Bhatnagar (rajulbhatnagar) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: openSUSE News and Planet are a great way to keep tabs on whatâs going on in the openSUSE world and Mobile, with Android leading the way becoming is becoming an important form factor to consume media. This makes it essential to provide a Native experience to consume this media. My vision of a Native openSUSE News/Planet app. Itâs said that a picture speaks more than a thousand words so I would like to use mockups to explain the direction I would like to take with the app. * Landing Page :- <div> <img style="width: 20%;float: left;" src="http://utopiadevelopers.com/gsoc/images/homepage.jpg" /> <div style="width: 80%;float: left;"> The user is greated with cards giving a preview of the news article like on the actual pages. These cards will be aggregates from both openSUSE News and Planet and would be based on filtering options selected by user like filtering posts from particular authors or posts matching certain tags because on Mobile you do not have time to sift through all the information so filtering options are very important to provide the most relevant information. If the user is not signed in the service will remember user preference based on Device Id. If the user wants his preferences across devices he will have to sign in using his openSUSE News or Planet Ids. He will also need to be signed in for sharing and commenting. The handle at the top right of every card is to provide per card options of sharing and for quick commenting on posts. The handle in the Actionbar is for changing between predefined filtering options and built-in filtering options like By Date, No. of comments etc and user defined filters. </div> </div> * Sliding Menu: - <div> <div> In App Navigation would be facilitated with the help of a Sliding Menu, the implementation of which will be based on this (http://simonvt.github.io/android-menudrawer/) library by Simon VT. I prefer the edge swipe implementation like the Google+ App. This will provide navigation to o Login: - To login using openSUSE News or planet Ids. o News :- Will change filtering to only show articles from openSUSE News o Planet :- Will change filtering to only show articles from openSUSE Planet o Filter: - To create user defined filters based on existing Tags and Categories. o Settings: - For user preferences like enabling Notifications, Restrict syncing to WiFi only etc. o About Page o Logout: - If signed in to logout. </div> </div> <div style="clear: both;"></div> * Â· News/Planet Article Page :- An Article can be opened by clicking on the Card or Clicking on Read More. The user can navigate the article by scrolling down. I am avoiding horizontal scrolling because it could hinder the sidebar Navigation. * Notifications :- I think itâs very important for a News App to inform the user when relevant information is posted. These rich Notifications are only possible on Jellybean but we can fall back to normal notifications on older android versions. The user can use the Quick actions to share this article or quickly post a comment if he is signed in. Tapping the notification will take him to the article Page. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/315009

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[New: openFATE 310981] openSUSE Software Portal
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 18 May '15

18 May '15

Feature added by: Denny Beyer (lumnis) Feature #310981, revision 1 Title: openSUSE Software Portal openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Denny Beyer (lumnis) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Have you every heard or seen the openSUSE software portal? Why is it so well hidden on the website? This should be well visible and accessible through a much more prominent location, e.g. the iso software download page. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Users, especially new linux/oss software users need a good starting point to search for software that might help them. The software portal does that, it's a shame it's not more accessible. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310981

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[openFATE 308151] https://features.opensuse.org/ needs user friendly CSS
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 17 May '15

17 May '15

Feature added by: Felix Miata (mrmazda) Feature #308151, revision 1 Title: https://features.opensuse.org/ needs user friendly CSS openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Felix Miata (mrmazda) Description: Details: 1-inadequate contrast many places. #000 on #FFF is only too contrasty for people with improperly adjusted displays. For those with correctly adjusted displays, and old displays with brightness and contrast already set to maximum anything less is easily too little. #363636 is marginal, #666666 much too light, for reading comfort with properly adjusted displays. 2-textarea and input fields reject keyboard cut & paste, and mouse operated cut & paste leaves unwanted extra newlines and unexpected focus location 3-fonts most places are too small. example: #main_content_wrapper and .medium-font should result in medium font, which is 1em, not 64% of medium, which is the usual physical result of font-size: .8em. 10pt, the size set on div.feature, is usually about 69% of the physical size of the most common browser default, not very friendly. Most knowlegeable web stylists know that sizing text in pt is a bad idea, as it and px totally disregard users' font size preferences. Font size references: http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/font-size http://tobyinkster.co.uk/article/web-fonts/ http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/fontsize.html http://www.useit.com/alertbox/designmistakes.html http://www.lighthouse.org/accessibility/top-10/ http://www.cameratim.com/personal/soapbox/morons-in-webspace -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308151

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[New: openFATE 312833] alloow uploading of photos or images on connect
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 17 May '15

17 May '15

Feature added by: Jean-Daniel Dodin (jdd) Feature #312833, revision 1 Title: alloow uploading of photos or images on connect openSUSE Infrastructure: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Jean-Daniel Dodin (jdd) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: We need to have a connect media support allowing real wirk. Photo sharing is mandatory, we can't rely on proprietary web site like flickr Use Case: artwork team need to share projects about boot splash or background -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312833

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[New: openFATE 312965] ask.opensuse.org
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 17 May '15

17 May '15

Feature added by: Marcus Moeller (MarcusMoeller) Feature #312965, revision 1 Title: ask.opensuse.org openSUSE.org: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Marcus Moeller (marcusmoeller) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Askbot platform are very popular these days, and a good alternative to classic forums. They offer some features, forums do not provide (e.g. voting). Other popular Linux distributions are already very successful using this method of offering support. Some examples are: http://askubuntu.com or http://ask.fedoraproject.org The latter is based on Askbot.org (http://askbot.org/) which is a open source/free software solution for that purpose. If you think this could be a benefit for the project, please vote for this feature. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312965

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[New: openFATE 312932] Have mail notifications in Connect
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 17 May '15

17 May '15

Feature added by: Jos Poortvliet (jospoortvliet) Feature #312932, revision 1 Title: Have mail notifications in Connect openSUSE Infrastructure: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Jos Poortvliet (jospoortvliet) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Connect is by far not annoying enough - it does not engage people enough right now. Besides improving the feed functionality (see related request) it would also help a lot if Connect allowed for email notifications. Test Case: Comment in a discussion. If you, after that, receive mail about new comments, all is well. Use Case: Person X is engaged in a discussion in Connect. Thanks to the email notification she knows that there have been responses! Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: We want people to use Connect, don't we? -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312932

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[New: openFATE 312001] Add email related functionality to connect.opensuse.rog
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 17 May '15

17 May '15

Feature added by: Richard Bos (rbos) Feature #312001, revision 1 Title: Add email related functionality to connect.opensuse.rog openSUSE.org: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Richard Bos (rbos) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Please add the the possibility to have additions and updates emailed to users, besides an RSS feed alone. The functionality could be called 'Recieve email notifications' to enable it. A possibility to send an email to the group, as group owner, would be appreciated. The functionality could be called 'Send email to group'. Add above the different options in the menu on left side of group landing page would be nice, to be better differentiate the tasks. For example: Actions -------- Group discussion Group calendar Group polls Invite someone Leave group Manage ------- Manage group operators Edit group Notification ------------- RSS feed Stop email notification (does not exist yet) Is clearer than: Manage group operators Edit group Invite someone Leave group Group discussion Group calendar Group polls -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312001

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[New: openFATE 314366] openSUSE developers efforts has been fragmented, i think.
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 17 May '15

17 May '15

Feature added by: Ali H Zadeh (ilAli) Feature #314366, revision 1 Title: openSUSE developers efforts has been fragmented, i think. openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important openSUSE Infrastructure: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Ali H Zadeh (ilali) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: To whom it may concern, I think openSUSE developers efforts has been fragmented because of lacking focus in one Desktop Environment. I think developing an independent and community driven linux distro such as openSUSE and trying releasing that with more than one DE such as KDE, Gnome, ... cause to some problems such as fragmenting developers effort and some times delay in releasing distro (openSUSE 12.2 delays). most of people out of this forum advise their friends to use openSUSE if they want a sweat KDE experience. it shows that openSUSE reputation is about it's integrity and focus on KDE. nobody advise his/her friend to use openSUSE with Gnome or XFCE or ... (all of these DEs are OK but openSUSE users usually use KDE and think openSUSE with KDE is the best). i want to suggest openSUSE developers to only focus on KDE. they could make an excellent distro with one DE instead of make a good distro with 2 avasilable DE. and for users that may want to try other DEs, they could use suse studio. i think it would be very useful to start a Poll about this suggestion. i started a thread about my suggestion in openSUSE forums in this address: http://forums.opensuse.org/forums/english/other-forums/looking-something-ot… thanks. Ali ... -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314366

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[New: openFATE 314383] Easily create add-on media
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 17 May '15

17 May '15

Feature added by: Vaibhav Kaushal (vaibhavkaushal123) Feature #314383, revision 1 Title: Easily create add-on media openSUSE Infrastructure: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Vaibhav Kaushal (vaibhavkaushal123) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Hello, Currently it seems that OpenSUSE wont allow any easy way to create an Add-On media which I can reditribute to friends so that they just install the OS and pop-in the Add-On DVD (which I would give them) and install the extra software. For example, if I have VLC media player installed on my system and I want a friend of mine to have it on his OpenSUSE (but he does not have an internet connection), then I could use the Add-On media creator to (automatically) find and copy the required packages and dependencies and burn it to disk. This disk should then enable my friend to install VLC media player easily! I think there is one such feature in the YaST but it never worked properly for me. Regards, Vaibhav -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314383

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[New: openFATE 312914] Installation media identifier
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 17 May '15

17 May '15

Feature added by: Matti Vahalinna (Waxborg) Feature #312914, revision 1 Title: Installation media identifier openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Matti Vahalinna (waxborg) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: When booting from an installation media the first thing the user would see would be an identifying greeter, like "Welcome to openSUSE 12.1 i586 network installer" This would help the user to be sure exactly waht is going to be installed Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: This would help the user to know for sure exactly what is going to be installed, right from the beginning. And abort if installation of a wrong version is about to begin. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312914

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