August 2015 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[New: openFATE 310855] Gnome Environment
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 19 Nov '16

19 Nov '16

Feature added by: Konstantinos Koudaras (warlordfff) Feature #310855, revision 1 Title: Gnome Environment openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Konstantinos Koudaras (warlordfff) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Hi I often hear complains from users about the Gnome Environment,not its ability to work but the design of that,people love the 2 bar on Gnome Environment and I was thinking if we could change it on the upcoming 11.4. The currently Gnome menu is not usable enough.At list you can change that and make it more like Mint. I know its really easy for a user to make that change but those are the things that attract users,especially the new ones. Kostas 'warlordfff' Koudaras Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: We want this because it will make the openSUSE Gnome environment more desirable -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310855

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[New: openFATE 310300] Create sensible start pages for browsers
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 19 Nov '16

19 Nov '16

Feature added by: Wolfgang Rosenauer (wrosenauer) Feature #310300, revision 1 Title: Create sensible start pages for browsers openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Wolfgang Rosenauer (wrosenauer) Description: The current start page for browsers is http://www.opensuse.org/. In my opinion the current content is not useful as a startpage which is kept by people. I would find a very small page with a possibility to search the net useful like the following examples: * http://www.google.de/firefox * http://start.ubuntu.com/10.04/Google/ * http://start.fedoraproject.org/ I don't want to promote Google but it's still the most popular search engine and what people mainly use. As part of this possible change I'd like to have an offline start page which can be loaded (at least) in Firefox when the machine is offline. Can people come up with something like that? Just an index.html with some more files probably installed in a location where other browsers can pick it up as well. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310300

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[New: openFATE 310320] documentation on howto set up wireless on opensuse
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 19 Nov '16

19 Nov '16

Feature added by: Glenn Doig (doiggl) Feature #310320, revision 1 Title: documentation on howto set up wireless on opensuse openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Glenn Doig (doiggl) Description: Add to documentation a chapter on howto set up wireless on opensuse covering - software rpm needed to be installed - setting up a wireless connection - testing your wireless connection - encryption - troubleshooting why wireless is not working - monitoring your wireless connection Thankyou Glenn. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310320

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[New: openFATE 309002] Ship openSUSE without xine
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 19 Nov '16

19 Nov '16

Feature added by: Axel Braun (DocB) Feature #309002, revision 1 Title: Ship openSUSE without xine openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Axel Braun (docb) Description: ...instead offer the installation from packman by default. The suse-build of xine and some other multimedia stuff is crippled due to some licensing 'restrictions'. So with the standard suse installation it is fairly impossible to watch a simple .avi, as I just learned yesterday again after upgrading to KDE 4.4 As a consequence, no multimedia shuld be shipped with openSUSE. Instead, an installation from the packman repository should be offered for this, as packman stuff is known to work. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309002

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[New: openFATE 308930] Restricted Drivers Manager
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 19 Nov '16

19 Nov '16

Feature added by: Stratos Zolotas (elksi) Feature #308930, revision 1 Title: Restricted Drivers Manager openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Stratos Zolotas (elksi) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Restricted Drivers Manager (similar to Ubuntu's) for installing proprietary drivers especially for graphics cards. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Installation of binary graphics cards drivers should be more quick and simpler that the usual PMS approach. Also unreleased drivers (like it happens for the new version of Ubuntu) should enter the alpha and beta testing period. It will be a nice feature to provide updates for this drivers as well, through the same Restricted Drivers Manager. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308930

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[New: openFATE 308388] Automatically propose to install firmware or proprietary driver
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 19 Nov '16

19 Nov '16

Feature added by: Mindaugas Baranauskas (embar-) Feature #308388, revision 1 Title: Automatically propose to install firmware or proprietary driver openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Mindaugas Baranauskas (embar-) Description: Ubuntu system's one nice tool: always notificates and proposes to install firmware and proprietary drive. OpenSUSE should also! Now, for example, openSUSE installs b43-fwcutter, but don’t inform, that I need to run /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware. Now OpenSUSE installs nv, but It would be nice to automatically notificate about possibility to install proprietary nvidia driver -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308388

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[New: openFATE 310811] Enable touchpad "tap click" by default
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 19 Nov '16

19 Nov '16

Feature added by: Jimmy Berry (boombatower) Feature #310811, revision 1 Title: Enable touchpad "tap click" by default openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Jimmy Berry (boombatower) Description: It seems in SUSE 11.3 the default setting was changed so that the touchpad no longer accepts tapping to click. At first I thought I had a driver issue or something was messed up. This is silly since everyone expects tapping the touchpad to result in a click, not to be ignored. One of the issues I think people have coming over to linux or even seasoned users such as myself is annoying or silly defaults. Right after installing SUSE I go through and change a load of settings, obviously much of which is user preference, but I have to be believe most settings I change to what people expect. Regardless enabling tapping on the touchpad is something we need. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310811

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[New: openFATE 310819] Install Grub to MBR by default
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 19 Nov '16

19 Nov '16

Feature added by: Armin Herbert (armher) Feature #310819, revision 1 Title: Install Grub to MBR by default openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Armin Herbert (armher) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: When installing openSUSE 11.3, right before copying the files to disk, one gets to choose where to install Grub - on a partition or in MBR. Installing on a partition is the default. This leaves users who didn't manually enable this option with a fresh installation of openSUSE and no way to boot it, short of editing a boot cd's grub command line by hand and restoring it with YaST from the running system. It's a common mistake, for unexperienced users as can be observed on FreeNode:#suse, as well as for people who install openSUSE a lot but from time to time forget this option. Installing to MBR should be the default way to install Grub. Alternatively, provide a better UI that makes choosing mandatory and explains the consequences. A third way could be to check for an existing Windows boot manager which is capable of booting Linux. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: We don't want new users who took the time to install openSUSE to be left with no way to boot their freshly installed OS. We want to support their curiousness and their courage to make this step should not be disappointed at the second time they boot. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310819

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[New: openFATE 310649] Adjust kernel choice automatically for server-based-install
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 19 Nov '16

19 Nov '16

Feature added by: Bruno Friedmann (bruno_friedmann) Feature #310649, revision 1 Title: Adjust kernel choice automatically for server-based-install openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Bruno Friedmann (bruno_friedmann) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: As described here https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=613216 and discussed also here https://features.opensuse.org/309257 Selecting the kernel-desktop during a minimal-server-install lead to more works for admin. Can we just adjust the pattern, to select the kernel-default if 64bits install, or the kernel-pae if 32 bits. Test Case: See https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=613216 Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Providing this smart choice to our advanced and/or admin users we show them that we understand what they want. "A minimal server text based install" Otherwise, the label is just wrong, isn't it ? -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310649

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[New: openFATE 310885] Use flash-player square for x64 instead of 10.1
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 19 Nov '16

19 Nov '16

Feature added by: vincent lejeune (vlj) Feature #310885, revision 1 Title: Use flash-player square for x64 instead of 10.1 openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: vincent lejeune (vlj) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Adobe released some weeks ago a new version preview version of its flash plugin codenamed "Square" (a preview of the 10.2 plugin version, that is to be released next year). Unlike stable 10.1, this plugin has a native 64 bits version. As experienced by some users, this preview version is more stable that the latest stable one on 64bits OS in some situation ; on the other hand, using a native x64 plugins would allow to get rid of every 32bits package that are installed "just for" flash player, and which waste disk place. It would be nice, as OpenSUSE 11.4 will ship in Q1 2011, to have a "package" that provides flash square (with classic EULA notification) for 64bits version of opensuse instead of flash 10.1. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310885

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