February 2016 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[openFATE 307746] Yast2-UI to mount remote Samba/CIFS-shares
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 08 Dec '16

08 Dec '16

Feature added by: Alex Müller (Larx) Feature #307746, revision 1 Title: Yast2-UI to mount remote Samba/CIFS-shares openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Alex Müller (larx) Description: At the moment there is no working Yast2-module to simply mount remote SAMBA/CIFS shares the "unix way" (i.e. with a directory entry in the filesystem a la "/network/sharename/"). (yast2-samba-client seems to offer this as "expert option", however I don't get it to work.) The different desktop environments offer access with the "smb:/"-protocol, however this doesn't work really consistently. E.g. it doesn't help with consoles and scripts, and even some desktop apps, namely KDE's own Amarok, refuse to use the smb:/-protocol. So I think a Yast2-module - which should be simple to do, as it would only be a frontend to /etc/fstab or /etc/samba/smbfstab - to mount SAMBA shares should be implemented. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307746

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[New: openFATE 317297] YaST2 software manager changes
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 06 Dec '16

06 Dec '16

Feature added by: John Shand (jshand2013) Feature #317297, revision 1 Title: YaST2 software manager changes openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: John Shand (jshand2013) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: there are a few distributions that are offering a rolling update release, which means you don't need to install the system ever again or update manually. The idea is that when a new stable release is released, it will give the user a message asking them if they would like to upgrade their system to the newer version. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/317297

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[New: openFATE 312174] Kpackagekit: Patches by default, other updates optional
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 04 Dec '16

04 Dec '16

Feature added by: Jean Cayron (jeancayron) Feature #312174, revision 1 Title: Kpackagekit: Patches by default, other updates optional openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Jean Cayron (jeancayron) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Since 11.4, the official updater in KDE is now kpackagekit and not kupdateapplet anymore. It gives you by default the notification of patches but also the packages on all the repos enabled. For a power user it's a nice feature but for a basic user or a user that wants to have choice in softwares but just wants the system to work, it's anoying. Even with few additional repos, it'll give you a huge amount of updates. For example, you've got just the packman repo enabled, there'll be lots of "micro" version updates (a bit everyday). If you've got to many updates, you won't take the time to sort them, you'll install them all to be no more notified. An official patch from the update-repo is an update that was tested to not break the system. I shouldn't affect stability or functionalities. An update on an additional repo isn't tested as much as a patch. You take always a risk to beak something in your system by using an aditionnal repo. You multiply the risk if you update the same packages constantly. Updating takes also a lot of memory. On low ram systems (like netbooks), it's anoying and can make your system unusable for the time of the update. In few word, update everything possible is bad for stability and uses a lot of memory. In kpackagekit you don't have the choice : - If you remove the other repositories in the preferences, it'll remove it from zypper and yast as well (and you must launch kpk as root to do it, even as it gives the impression you can do it as a normal user). - If you only choose to apply the patches, it's time consuming (click, click, click) and you're constantly left with a notification that you've got X updates. Solution : Kpackagekit should by defalut have the option to list/apply only patch from the official update repo as updates. The listing/apply of other updates should be activated optionaly. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312174

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[New: openFATE 316591] Enable spin-down of an externally powered USB HDDs when system powers down
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 04 Dec '16

04 Dec '16

Feature added by: hem doshi (hemdoshi) Feature #316591, revision 1 Title: Enable spin-down of an externally powered USB HDDs when system powers down openSUSE Infrastructure: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: hem doshi (hemdoshi) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: I have a following hard drive. Seagate Backup Plus 4 TB USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard Drive STCA4000100 It is hooked with my home media server running opensuse 12.3. I would like this hard drive to spin down automatically when I shut down my server. That way I can safely unplug the hard drive once the system is off. Right now, since opensuse 12.3 doesn't "park" an externally powered drive in a proper state while shutting itself down, the drive keeps on spinning forever. It is undesirable to put the mechanical system of the drive through unnecessary wear. Unplugging it is probably even more undesirable as it might damage the drive altogether. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/316591

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[New: openFATE 318102] Facilitate the removal of Flash Player
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 04 Dec '16

04 Dec '16

Feature added by: armando bustamante elu (aldobelus) Feature #318102, revision 1 Title: Facilitate the removal of Flash Player Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: armando bustamante elu (aldobelus) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Best regards. I'd like to propose a very simple change in the policy of OpenSUSE. Currently there are easy ways of replacing proprietary Flash Player software by other options. At the same time, I believe that we are many more users that currently know how to make this change, that want to do it and that is not for us a nuisance but a pleasure to perform it, thus giving a step towards the use of more free software in our computers. I know and use various GNU/Linux and I note that OpenSUSE is one of the distributions more difficult to configure to get this software change, not to mention the strange message I have found in this new version, the 13.2, which threatens to eliminate codecs and language of K3b package, although it has seemed to me that, finally, it does not. Thank you for your attention and congratulations for this beautiful new version. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/318102

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[New: openFATE 320175] YaST sw_install should gain 'application centric' view
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 04 Dec '16

04 Dec '16

Feature added by: Dominique Leuenberger (dimstar) Feature #320175, revision 1 Title: YaST sw_install should gain 'application centric' view Requested by: Dominique Leuenberger (dimstar) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: YAST sw_single is very powerful when it comes to package management... but the 'standard user' cares for applications, not for packages - those are just technicalities. With the introduction of AppStream metadata into the distribution (auto-generated on media creation) we gained support to better product descriptions. Various upstreams already ship an appdata.xml file, which describes the application in their words and can reference screenshots - making for a much better user interface. It would be great if YaST could pick up on this as well and either offer Applications as a new (default?) view of sw_single or introduce a new module - a software center (not a package manager) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/320175

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[New: openFATE 312489] Search for GUI applications in YaST
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 04 Dec '16

04 Dec '16

Feature added by: Mindaugas Baranauskas (embar-) Feature #312489, revision 1 Title: Search for GUI applications in YaST openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Mindaugas Baranauskas (embar-) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Now YaST allow to see mixed packages: applications, libraries, extentions for programs... For new users it would be very friedly interface, wich has feature to filter only Applications (programs with GUI). Process of filtering could be based on searching for /usr/share/applications/*.desktop in RPM. (Maybe additionally: extract icons, related to *.desktop files) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312489

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[New: openFATE 310379] SUSE Application Center
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 04 Dec '16

04 Dec '16

Feature added by: Otso Rajala (daedaluz) Feature #310379, revision 1 Title: SUSE Application Center openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Otso Rajala (daedaluz) Description: Ubuntu 9.10 had one great new feature in it: the Ubuntu Software Center. It's radically dumped down, clean and uncluttered version of Synaptic. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter) for throughout description. It is not intended to replace Synaptic, but to make installing softare more accessible. This is definitely something openSUSE needs. YaST is even more powerful than Synaptic, but it's also more cluttered (at least in KDE). Thus, the demand for clearly presented centralized software installation and removal is also larger. I'm proposing, that we bluntly copy Ubuntu Software Center principles and create a native Qt interface for KDE. We might even go further, and give it even sharper "app store" look & feel by making it to present graphical applications only. More advanced users could use YaST or zypp like nothing happened. Use Case: Case 1: New user wants to install Kdenlive. Search in YaST provides plethora of packages, including libraries & debug items. Confusing. Search in Application Center produces only one result. Case 2: advanced user wants to take a glimpse what's available for his new desktop after installation. Application Center presents only graphical applications, offering quick method to do that. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310379

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[New: openFATE 310321] Integrate Bastille Linux, and options for mandriva control center in the YaST.
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 04 Dec '16

04 Dec '16

Feature added by: jpxviii jpxviii (jpxviii) Feature #310321, revision 1 Title: Integrate Bastille Linux, and options for mandriva control center in the YaST. Hackweek V: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: jpxviii jpxviii (jpxviii) Description: Using as reference the options of the control center and security Mandriva Linux Bastille might be useful to integrate them into Yast and enable end-users productive, non-technical users and program management to better configure more options OpenSuse single or a test response questions as if you use p2p sharing applications like ktorrent and amule (which may also cause the system to check the configuration of ktorrent and amule, as the firewall ports to open suse firewall automatically with no configuration by the user ) Few end users productive and Bastille Linux know-how and know how to use. And in the Mandriva security check I've seen some options that are not in Yast, local security firewall and perhaps there is something useful -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310321

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[New: openFATE 311279] Include Warsow & FreeOrion
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 04 Dec '16

04 Dec '16

Feature added by: Jerome EPRINCHARD (radzaquiel) Feature #311279, revision 1 Title: Include Warsow & FreeOrion openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Jerome EPRINCHARD (radzaquiel) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Warsow is a multiplayer-designed FPS like OpenArena but in a cartoon-like style and with special moves. http://www.warsow.net (http://www.warsow.net) FreeOrion is a turn-based space empire & galactic conquest game. A good complement to FreeCiv in my opinion http://www.freeorion.org (http://www.freeorion.org) Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: To enjoy 2 interesting & well-done games ! -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311279

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