October 2016 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[openFATE 307747] autokey
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 30 Aug '17

30 Aug '17

Feature added by: Erik Luijten (luijten) Feature #307747, 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/307747

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[New: openFATE 308428] kuickshow for KDE 4
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 16 Aug '17

16 Aug '17

Feature added by: Tristan Miller (psych0naut) Feature #308428, revision 1 Title: kuickshow for KDE 4 Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Tristan Miller (psych0naut) Description: Kuickshow is a popular image viewer for KDE. Versions are available for both KDE 3 and KDE 4. Previous versions of openSUSE included it among KDE 3 applications. However, openSUSE 11.1 and openSUSE 11.2 do not include the KDE 4 version. Please add a kuickshow package for KDE 4. The KDE 4 version of Kuickshow can be downloaded from its official KDE home page at http://userbase.kde.org/KuickShow (http://userbase.kde.org/KuickShow) See also KDE bug 188539: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=188539 (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=188539) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308428

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[New: openFATE 313088] allow patches that uninstall packages
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 10 Aug '17

10 Aug '17

Feature added by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Feature #313088, revision 1 Title: allow patches that uninstall packages openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: suppose security flaws are discovered in some leaf package that we cannot fix for some reason. We need a way to tell users of that package that they better uninstall the affected package. Previously we would have "solved" this by releasing a new version of the package without files. This is a rather ugly hack though. What we need is a special patch that when selected uninstalls the listed packages without causing e.g. packagekit to choke. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313088

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[New: openFATE 318355] Convert X keyboard layouts to console keymaps
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 08 Aug '17

08 Aug '17

Feature added by: Mindaugas Baranauskas (embar-) Feature #318355, revision 1 Title: Convert X keyboard layouts to console keymaps openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Mindaugas Baranauskas (embar-) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: In systemd world we use localectl. Mapping between console and X keyboards is complicated. I creates bugs (e.g. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=897803) after switching from legacy /etc/X11/xdm/Keyboard.map mapping in to new systemd /usr/share/systemd/kbd-model-map mapping. Indeed most console keyboards are obsolete, they are difficult to configure, as each layout requires specific correct parameters for kbd_mode and setfont. And YaST also have some additional mapping: /usr/share/YaST2/data/keyboard_raw.ycp. We must change essentially keyboard management in YaST. We could use Fedora solution by converting X keymaps to console keymaps to simplify keyboard issues. Use Case: As discussed in https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88545, Fedora has many more console layouts, converted from X keyboard layouts with script: # Convert X keyboard layouts to console keymaps mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/lib/kbd/keymaps/xkb perl xml2lst.pl < /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.xml > layouts-variants.lst while read line; do XKBLAYOUT=`echo "$line" | cut -d " " -f 1` echo "$XKBLAYOUT" >> layouts-list.lst XKBVARIANT=`echo "$line" | cut -d " " -f 2` ckbcomp "$XKBLAYOUT" "$XKBVARIANT" | gzip > $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/lib/kbd/keymaps/xkb/"$XKBLAYOUT"-"$XKBVARIANT".map.gz done < layouts-variants.lst # Convert X keyboard layouts (plain, no variant) cat layouts-list.lst | sort -u >> layouts-list-uniq.lst while read line; do ckbcomp "$line" | gzip > $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/lib/kbd/keymaps/xkb/"$line".map.gz done < layouts-list-uniq.lst Full spec file: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/kbd/sources/spec/ Fedora moved upstream layouts to /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/legacy/ . -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/318355

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[New: openFATE 308696] too much software search engines
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 07 Aug '17

07 Aug '17

Feature added by: Roberto Mannai (robermann79) Feature #308696, revision 1 Title: too much software search engines openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Roberto Mannai (robermann79) Description: Unify the package search services. http://software.opensuse.org/search returns results which http://packages.opensuse-community.org does not return. In a similar way, webpin (CLI and the Yast module) does not find anything. (I'm trying with codesounding for opensuse 11.2) >From an end-user perspective, he is supposed to search in two/three search engines before he could give up and can be sure of the answer? -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308696

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[New: openFATE 314444] gnome-tweak-tools as default
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Aug '17

05 Aug '17

Feature added by: Jon Cosby (chief_sealth) Feature #314444, revision 1 Title: gnome-tweak-tools as default openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Jon Cosby (chief_sealth) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: The default Gnome Settings interface has been reduced to bare bones, offering little for personal customization. There are advanced tools, I don't remember what they're called off the top of my head, but these are very complex and difficult to memorize. There's middle ground in the gnome-tweak-tools, offering far more than the default system settings and easy to use even for novice users. Why not make this part of the default installation for Gnome? Add it to the main menu, and let users know it's there. I almost forgot about it upgrading the other day, and had to do some searching. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314444

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[New: openFATE 313047] Show screenshots to help user choose which desktop to install
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Aug '17

05 Aug '17

Feature added by: Richard Brown (RBrownCCB) Feature #313047, revision 1 Title: Show screenshots to help user choose which desktop to install openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Richard Brown (rbrownccb) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Currently, when the user chooses the type of Desktop they want to install they are presented with a rather 'boring' menu with lots of text, describing a little about GNOME, KDE, and how they get to choose I would like to see screenshots, possibly even a slideshow, of at least GNOME and KDE if not XFCE & LXDE for users to see and help them make their choice about which desktop environment they wish to install. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: We have KDE selected by default, covering the 'I don't care/know just let me install this thing' userbase More advanced users probably have enough knowledge that they never read the text and already have their decision made and go straight to their DE of choice But I think we currently do a disservice to an important demographic of inquisitive users who want to choose but might not have the information yet to make one Right now, a user who doesn't know what GNOME or KDE looks like get nothing from our installer, they have to install it, try it, and if they dont like it, install the other one.. I'd argue this inquisitive demographic of users is one openSUSE is brilliantly placed to serve, as we offer so many options, so let's make it a little easier for them to make an initial choice they will be more likely to like from day 1 -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313047

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[New: openFATE 312823] Rewrite spec-cleaner into Ruby and make its architecture cleaner
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Aug '17

05 Aug '17

Feature added by: Pavol Rusnak (prusnak) Feature #312823, revision 1 Title: Rewrite spec-cleaner into Ruby and make its architecture cleaner Hackweek VII: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Pavol Rusnak (prusnak) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Vincent and I created a small tool Python called spec-cleaner which makes .spec files cleaner and removes some common mistakes and ancient constructs. Nowadays more and more people use it and we'd like to extend it with more features. Unfortunately, this getting harder because all spec-cleaner does is some clever text replacement. We'd need a parser to do some advanced magic so I decided to give it a try and rewrite it in Ruby (which has support for regexeps directly in its syntax and neither me nor Vincent would like to use Perl :-)). -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312823

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[New: openFATE 308286] Add more educational Packages
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Aug '17

05 Aug '17

Feature added by: Frederick Yeboah (kwaku) Feature #308286, revision 1 Title: Add more educational Packages openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Frederick Yeboah (kwaku) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: More educational packages needs to be added to the 11.3. These packages may include tuxmath, supertux, R, openproj, unbrello etc... Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: This helps a lot in trying to train people using the openSuse platform. This also makes much more appealing to students and the educational sector. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308286

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[openFATE 306757] big all in one live dvd/usb img (like knoppix dvd)
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Aug '17

05 Aug '17

Feature added by: Bruno Gerz (bogz) Feature #306757, revision 1 Title: big all in one live dvd/usb img (like knoppix dvd) Hackweek IV: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Bruno Gerz (bogz) Description: It would be great to get live dvd images(factory tree). CDs are out, I think ;-) So you would get more feedback for packages, which are not tested by standard gnome- or kde-only live cd testers - and may be, computer magazines are interested too. It`s not so simple to build and solve all dependencies via kiwi for people, not bound in suse or novell, because anything was changed every week ;-) If not possible because of storage size, so may be you can provide periodically a big kiwi konfiguration file(or only for a released openSUSE) with solved dependencies. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306757

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[openFATE 306934] geekofeel: web mashup
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Aug '17

05 Aug '17

Feature added by: Jigish Gohil (cyberorg) Feature #306934, revision 1 Title: geekofeel: web mashup Hackweek IV: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Jigish Gohil (cyberorg) Description: Website displaying(live) news, tweets, diggs, blogs etc with #opensuse, #geeko -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306934

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[openFATE 306916] Gamestore
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Aug '17

05 Aug '17

Feature added by: Pavol Rusnak (prusnak) Feature #306916, revision 1 Title: Gamestore Hackweek IV: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Pavol Rusnak (prusnak) Description: Finish Gamestore and make it production ready. More info here: http://stick.gk2.sk/blog/2009/07/gamestore/ -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306916

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[New: openFATE 308375] navegation with tab in openoffice
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Aug '17

05 Aug '17

Feature added by: Agustin Chavarria (dj_ubun_1) Feature #308375, revision 1 Title: navegation with tab in openoffice openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Agustin Chavarria (dj_ubun_1) Description: navigation by tabs is very usable in openffice, lotus has that function, and would be very useful to have it, so it has a higher order -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308375

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[New: openFATE 309021] Wireless Feature
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Aug '17

05 Aug '17

Feature added by: Timmy Pasi (tpasi) Feature #309021, revision 1 Title: Wireless Feature openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Timmy Pasi (tpasi) Description: Make wireless setup simple and have support of all the drivers. Wireless is the future and Opensuse should be the leader. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309021

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[New: openFATE 312840] Evaluate libzypp thread safety
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Aug '17

05 Aug '17

Feature added by: Michael Andres (mlandres) Feature #312840, revision 1 Title: Evaluate libzypp thread safety Hackweek VII: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Michael Andres (mlandres) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: The are features like FATE#120340 asking for decoupling download and installation, also ideas to speed up initial repository refresh and loading by using parallelism. But before this we need a minimum amount of thread safety in libzypp. I'd like to investigate if and how this is possible. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312840

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[New: openFATE 312835] Snoek improvement.
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Aug '17

05 Aug '17

Feature added by: Yifan Jiang (yfjiang) Feature #312835, revision 1 Title: Snoek improvement. Hackweek VII: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Yifan Jiang (yfjiang) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Refer to our hackweek 6 project, https://features.opensuse.org/311117 we are gonna continue to improve Snoek this time from the aspects of: 1. html5 compatible 2. css compatible 3. investigate about ldap authentication 4. New feature- adding questions/votes dynamically 5. New feature - investigate and implement meeting room reservation 6. New feature - Richer text area investigation (allow pics/hyperlinks in vote items) 7. New feature - Allow user to remove its own vote. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312835

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[New: openFATE 311117] Team activity vote.
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Aug '17

05 Aug '17

Feature added by: yfjiang Jiang (yfjiang) Feature #311117, revision 1 Title: Team activity vote. Hackweek VI: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Neutral Requested by: yfjiang Jiang (yfjiang) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: We intend to implement a web-based application to allow people managing a customizable polling system, as well as showing convenient statistics of the voting results in both web page and download-able odf format. We call the tool 'Snoek'. Use Case: Shuang wants to organize a team building and bring people for dinner after that. She logs into Snoek and create a new team building activity with proper summary like 'Team building in August 2011'. Except for the basic description of the activity, in the activity creation page, she also needs to create a deadline for the activity. After that, polls needed to be defined for the activity: Pool 1 - Which game do you want to play in team building? option 1. option 2. option 3. Poll 2 - Where do you want to go have dinner after team building? option 1. option 2. option 3. Poll 3 - Which food do you prefer to have in the dinner? option 1. option 2. option 3. Then Shuang submit the activity and send mail to related people to ask them vote before deadline. After deadline Shuang revisited the activity page she created, and the tool will show her the number of people voting stats, which could be the basis of choice for team building and dinner. She can finally export the data into odf format. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Some times, we need statistics of internal preference of choice to, for example, where do we want to go team building? what size of t-shirt do people want in hackweek? which restaurant do we want to go dinner? These kind of stats can be only done manually at the moment, which could be painful and the questionnaires are usually not re-usable. We target to bring convenience typically described in the user case description section. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311117

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[New: openFATE 309565] Hacking Apache FOP (learn some java)
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Aug '17

05 Aug '17

Feature added by: Juergen Weigert (jnweiger) Feature #309565, revision 1 Title: Hacking Apache FOP (learn some java) Requested by: Juergen Weigert (jnweiger) Description: Apache FOP is a great docbook to PDF renderer. Doc-team has found some strange limitations, some of them appear trivial to fix. E.g. some text simply does not appear on the cover. Unfortunatly, FOP is written in Java, and I have never looked at java code before. I'd like to create a development and debugging environment for FOP. Is there anybody interested to guide me into the world of Java, and join me in picking some of the low hanging fruits there? -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309565

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[New: openFATE 309699] development board ARM Cortex-M3 available for hacking
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Aug '17

05 Aug '17

Feature added by: Juergen Weigert (jnweiger) Feature #309699, revision 1 Title: development board ARM Cortex-M3 available for hacking Requested by: Juergen Weigert (jnweiger) Description: http://www.micro4you.com/store/STM32F103-Development-Board/prod_57.html Anybody interested it playing around with that one? Toolchain, blinkenlights, ...? I have the hardware.... -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309699

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[New: openFATE 308371] Alternate Preview pics of the desktop environments to use
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Aug '17

05 Aug '17

Feature added by: matthias propst (l1zard) Feature #308371, revision 1 Title: Alternate Preview pics of the desktop environments to use openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Neutral Requested by: matthias propst (l1zard) Description: the most often question i hear is what desktop environment should i use. most people new to linux dont know kde4 or gnome usually looks like. to descripe it in a few words is one way but i was thinking about having a preview button on dvd which shows the user maybe a short animation film of the selected desktop. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308371

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[New: openFATE 308492] UGene
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Aug '17

05 Aug '17

Feature added by: Jens Staal (staalmannen) Feature #308492, revision 1 Title: UGene Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Jens Staal (staalmannen) Description: Include UGene in science repositories. UGene is a molecular biology / bioinformatics toolbox. The Fedora RPM installs nicely on OpenSuse. http://ugene.unipro.ru/ -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308492

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[New: openFATE 310910] Free Student Management System inclusion
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 04 Aug '17

04 Aug '17

Feature added by: Cristea Bogdan (Bogdanc23) Feature #310910, revision 1 Title: Free Student Management System inclusion Education Li-f-e: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Cristea Bogdan (bogdanc23) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: FreeSMS is a small project aimed at ensuring students management for individual teachers and small schools/universities. With respect to other student management systems it has less functionality, its main goal being simplicity and usability. I think this feature is already included by openSUSE Life, not sure if the latest version is included. A better description of the FreeSMS features should be made, since FreeSMS has been recently updated. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310910

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[openFATE 307421] Package Request: Yamagi Quake.
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 04 Aug '17

04 Aug '17

Feature added by: Zombie Ryushu (zombie_ryushu) Feature #307421, revision 1 Title: Package Request: Yamagi Quake. Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Zombie Ryushu (zombie_ryushu) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Yamagi Quake 2 is an updated version of the Quake 2 Engine that fixes over 500 Bugs in the Icculus Quake 2 port and Quake2 Forge. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Currently no RPMs for it exist, and the Icculus Quake 2 port is so unstable, its unusable. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307421

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[New: openFATE 308406] Regina
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 04 Aug '17

04 Aug '17

Feature added by: Don Hughes (dehughes) Feature #308406, revision 1 Title: Regina openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Neutral Requested by: Don Hughes (dehughes) Description: Update Regina rexx from 3.3 to a later version. 3.3 is almost 6 years old. 3.4 is available from sourceforge as well as 3.5 which has a number of important bug fixes and a couple of enhancements. I have been using 3.5 sucessfully with SuSE 11.2 http://regina-rexx.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/regina-rexx/ -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308406

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[New: openFATE 310069] run yast2 second stage config in ncurses or VGA mode
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 03 Aug '17

03 Aug '17

Feature added by: Bernhard Wiedemann (bmwiedemann) Feature #310069, revision 1 Title: run yast2 second stage config in ncurses or VGA mode openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Bernhard Wiedemann (bmwiedemann) Description: Note: This feature request is intended for 11.3+1 but this option was unavailable in the list. With 11.2 default installs, I have observed 3-4 installs and 2-3 of those ended with a black screen where yast2 second stage configuration should have been. The actual reasons for the black screens differed. One had an ATI graphics driver crash and another used the maximum possible resolution (1600x1200), which the CRT-monitor could not handle. However, from a user perspective, this all came out to the same awful experience - a non-working system that is giving no hint to what might be wrong. Also, before this second stage configuration finished, many of the normal methods to debug and amend such problems can not be used. e.g. adding a "3" for a different runlevel does not work and the user-password is not set (only root). So my suggestion to better the experience is to start out in ncurses or safe VGA mode and at some point (e.g. at end of configuration) prompt the user "I am now trying the $DRIVER graphics driver which might not work. Old settings will be restored in 15 seconds. If you encounter problems, check http://en.opensuse.org/SDB/Graphics/$DRIVER for help [OK] [Cancel]" Of course, it could be argued, that X11-autodetection and drivers should work and bugzilla be involved, but this would not improve the general user-experience for the cases where something breaks anyway. Often quality is not about how well something works, but how well something fails. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310069

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