Feature added by: Dainius Masiliunas (GreatEmerald)
Feature #314606, revision 1
Title: Improved Btrfs subvolume management in YaST Partitioner
openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed
Priority
Requester: Desirable
Requested by: Dainius Masiliunas (greatemerald)
Partner organization: openSUSE.org
Description:
The current implementation of Btrfs subvolume management is a bit too simplistic. It allows adding and removing subvolumes, but that is all. Expanding this to view subvolumes as actual subvolumes would be beneficial. Perhaps something akin to LVM configuration, as Btrfs subvolumes can handle much of what LVM does.
At the same time, this could allow easier interfacing with Snapper.
Use Case:
When using Btrfs as the main file system, it is useful to have a single Btrfs partition for both / and /home, as it allows for more efficient disk space use. When reinstalling and upgrading, it is now a problem, as there is no way to remove certain subvolumes and leave others, and keeping /home between installations is often useful. Another case is when a multi-device Btrfs volume is desirable. The YaST partitioner only allows creating "regular" Btrfs partitions right now.
A feature like that would also be useful for tighter Snapper integration. It would be a convenient place to set which volumes should be monitored by it, and which are not. In addition, it would help resolve a few bugs, such as the failure to automatically create subvolumes for excluding directories from Snapper monitoring when choosing to format the Btrfs partition.
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openSUSE Feature:
https://features.opensuse.org/314606
Feature added by: Narayansamy S (vazhavandan)
Feature #314529, revision 1
Title: Add XFCE and LXDE live cds in software.opensuse.org
openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed
Priority
Requester: Important
Requested by: Narayansamy S (vazhavandan)
Partner organization: openSUSE.org
Description:
There is urgent need to Add XFCE and LXDE live cds in software.opensuse.org page as many Linux users are moving away from traditional DEs(KDE,GNOME) after some rather controversial changes from KDE3.X==>DE4.X and GNOME2.x==>GNOME3.X
Many users moving to LXDE and XFCE can try out th DE environments using the live cds provided in the software download page
Business case (Partner benefit):
openSUSE.org: To test hardware issues Smaller download compared to DVD Many users are preferring LXDE and XFCE over GNOME and KDE One can keep using live cds in case of system crashes DVD download doesn't support live boots
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openSUSE Feature:
https://features.opensuse.org/314529
Feature added by: Neil Rickert (nrickert)
Feature #318341, revision 1
Title: Include "fixparts" on the live rescue CD
openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed
Priority
Requester: Important
Requested by: Neil Rickert (nrickert)
Partner organization: openSUSE.org
Description:
The "fixparts" utililty (package "gptfdisk-fixparts") is useful for repairing corrupted partition tables, such as occur when a user tries to convert a disk from GPT partitioning to legacy MBR partitioning.
It would be useful to include that on live media -- at least the live rescue -- so that we can point people to a way to fix their install problems.
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openSUSE Feature:
https://features.opensuse.org/318341
Feature added by: Francesco Noacco (FireLink)
Feature #314607, revision 1
Title: formatting
openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed
Priority
Requester: Mandatory
Requested by: Francesco Noacco (firelink)
Partner organization: openSUSE.org
Description:
Can format and save data in the partitions stored in any fs and not just fat32 (after installation).
Use Case:
I solved it with "disk manager" Debian testing (3.0.2 by Red Hat, 2009) In the formatting parameters allows disk usage by users other than root. And to think that I had just complained because the utility from a new disc without mbr creates one that is not compatible with other distributions (gparted from an alert message).
Business case (Partner benefit):
openSUSE.org: Operations should be for everyone.
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openSUSE Feature:
https://features.opensuse.org/314607
Feature added by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel)
Feature #315592, revision 1
Title: retire /etc/ssl/certs as r/w for admins
Requested by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel)
Partner organization: openSUSE.org
Description:
Since the introduction of update-ca-certificates in openSUSE 11.2 /etc/ssl/certs has been an automatically managed location for SSL certificates. Adminstrators are no longer meant to put their own files there but instead have update-ca-certificates install symlinks to the actual files there.
Having scripts regularly mess with /etc is ugly. Therefore placing individual symlinks in /etc/ssl/certs needs to be retired. /etc/ssl/certs should point to a location in /var instead. This could either be done with a symlink or with a bind mount.
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openSUSE Feature:
https://features.opensuse.org/315592
Feature added by: Andreas Winter (netzheimer)
Feature #322297, revision 1
Title: Yast2 working in wayland
openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed
Priority
Requester: Important
Requested by: Andreas Winter (netzheimer)
Partner organization: openSUSE.org
Description:
Wayland is coming with big steps. First distributions (eg fedora) already use it as default. Gnome should be already stable with it, Plasmas support is getting better and better. Some other DE already support it out of the box. Wayland is a lot more secure than Xserver and it is the future. I think it is time to bring Yast2's support for this. At the moment a user who wants to run wayland has just 2 solutions: - Running yast in textmode (which is not a solution for non-geek users) - Switch to another distribution, which offers better support
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openSUSE Feature:
https://features.opensuse.org/322297
Feature added by: Sharque uddin Ahmed Farooqui (safknw)
Feature #314706, revision 1
Title: New default theme
openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed
Priority
Requester: Important
Requested by: Sharque uddin Ahmed Farooqui (safknw)
Partner organization: openSUSE.org
Description:
Currently OpenSuse comes this slightly modified default theme from DE. For example KDE default theme is not very different from vanilla KDE default theme. So does not distinctive feeling. I believe having a separate for DE will be it much better feeling to end user also it provide unique look and feel to user.
We can have a look at ROSA as case.
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openSUSE Feature:
https://features.opensuse.org/314706
Feature added by: Arvin Schnell (aschnell)
Feature #318196, revision 1
Title: Redesign YaST Storage Code
Requested by: Arvin Schnell (aschnell)
Partner organization: openSUSE.org
Description:
The structure of the target-map (holding almost all storage data in YaST) is outdated and not documented. Adding new features, e.g. use whole disk for filesystem, bcache, dm-cache or switching to and from partitions on MD RAID, is difficult and error-prone.
Thus a redesign is required to be prepared for new features and make the software more robust.
During hackweek I evaluated using the boost graph library for libstorage. The result was announced and is explained, see references.
I consider the redesign to be mandatory but not for a specific version (although as soon as possible).
Note: This feature is about a redesign, new functionality must by requested as individual feature requests.
Relations:
- Evaluation Project on GitHub (url: https://github.com/aschnell/libstorage-bgl-eval/wiki)
- Announcment on yast-devel (url: http://lists.opensuse.org/yast-devel/2014-10/msg00045.html)
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openSUSE Feature:
https://features.opensuse.org/318196
Feature added by: Thomas Langkamp (tomtomme)
Feature #315060, revision 1
Title: Remove double configuration-posibilities (Yast/KDE)
openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed
Priority
Requester: Important
Requested by: Thomas Langkamp (tomtomme)
Partner organization: openSUSE.org
Description:
Examples: 1. For 12.2 (fresh install) I could configure ntp via yast and via kde, through different menus. The kde-method did not work the yast method worked. 2. The same for network: After a fresh 12.2 and 12.3 install manual-internet (no dhcp) connection failed until I used the Yast-network-module. A direct configuration through the KDE-configuration dialoge did not work. At c´t (heise journal) I read that it even did not work for DHCP... 3. I could continue...
Why all these double configuration possibilities? Please disable the one in KDE or the one in Yast (I know you can not tell KDE to stop developing those, because other distros do not have Yast, but for suse you could just disable them or remove the yast pendants, if thats ok for the other desktops like gnome etc.) Thanks, tomme
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openSUSE Feature:
https://features.opensuse.org/315060