February 2016 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[New: openFATE 311244] install time enhancement for partitionner
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 20 Nov '16

20 Nov '16

Feature added by: Jean-Daniel Dodin (jdd) Feature #311244, revision 1 Title: install time enhancement for partitionner openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Jean-Daniel Dodin (jdd) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: NB: too late for 11.4, to be seen for next (12?) one. when somebody have to install openSUSE, the moment he have to partition his drive is the key moment. Any error could make him lose his favorite (previous) system. The install system makes it's best to guess the better way to do this, but unless the disk is brand new, the result is random. For anybody not familiar with the partitionner, the two options (create partition/modify partitions) are unsignificant: that is they meaning have nothing obvious, the two of them keep the initial proposal. We should have a third option: guided partitionning, with something like this: * if windows install was found: ask: do you want to remove your windows install or keep it? If the answer is to remove, no problem. If the answer is to keep, an other question have to be asked: "you have to reduce the size of a windows partition". This one looks like a data partition (show some files on the partition) do you want openSUSE to use it (if yes, go to th reduce partition module). etc. we could discuss to have a fully, optional dialog -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311244

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[New: openFATE 314639] Add PeaZip to the openSUSE software repositories
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 19 Nov '16

19 Nov '16

Feature added by: Mircea Kitsune (MirceaKitsune) Feature #314639, revision 1 Title: Add PeaZip to the openSUSE software repositories openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Mircea Kitsune (mirceakitsune) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: PeaZip is an open-source archive manager which works with various formats and has many useful options as well as a nice interface. I used to have it in Windows, but have been using Ark since I moved to openSUSE with KDE. Since Ark is very limited I tried looking PeaZip up in my repositories, but neither openSUSE's nor Packman have it. If there are no reasons why this program can't be added to openSUSE by default, could you please make this application part of the distribution? http://peazip.sourceforge.net/ Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: PeaZip is a very useful and complete archive manager, and it might help many users to have an easy way of installing it like everything else. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314639

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[New: openFATE 320280] Improve out of the box font rendering
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 19 Nov '16

19 Nov '16

Feature added by: Richard Schwartz (rschwartz) Feature #320280, revision 1 Title: Improve out of the box font rendering openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Richard Schwartz (rschwartz) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Browsing some websites out of the box looks makes the fonts look terrible. Changing the option FORCE_AUTOHINT in "/etc/sysconfig/fonts-config" to "yes" from the default "no" seems to fix this for me. Other recommendations I've received are changing USE_LCDFILTER to "lcddefault" from the default "lcdnone" and changing USE_RGBA to "rgb" from the default "none". I'm not sure what the effect of those last two are, but the first one seems like a no-brainer to me. Use Case: https://www.reddit.com/r/openSUSE/search?q=font&restrict_sr=on I've seen many complaints about the font rendering out of the box, and enabling these options seems to fix it. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: A better looking distro out of the box is always good. Plus not having to change anything will appeal to casual users. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/320280

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[New: openFATE 312858] Transion to MariaDB as the default SQL server
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 19 Nov '16

19 Nov '16

Feature added by: Stanley Miller (stan_qaz) Feature #312858, revision 1 Title: Transion to MariaDB as the default SQL server openSUSE 12.1: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Stanley Miller (stan_qaz) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Building on this feature from 11.3: Include MariaDB https://features.opensuse.org/308937 Given the Oracle ownership of MySQL and their move to an OpenCore development model it is time OpenSUSE transitions away from MySQL as the default database to the MariaDB. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312858

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[New: openFATE 313289] Configuration of common options during installation
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 19 Nov '16

19 Nov '16

Feature added by: Christian Spaan (Gyges88) Feature #313289, revision 1 Title: Configuration of common options during installation openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Christian Spaan (gyges88) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: When installing openSUSE there is usually little to do once you've set up basic options like time zone and keyboard layout - apart from waiting and watching the slide show. While this is nice for newbies, it might be sort of a waste of time for experienced users. So why not add the possibility to configure common options that had to be set after installation at many different places otherwise? So here is an initial list of potential things to configure during installation: 1. Wallpaper 2. KDE theme 3. KDE Menu Style 4. Additional time zone 5. Numlock activated/deactivated at startup 6. Install proprietary stuff: drivers, codecs, fonts 7. Network: ifup vs. network manager 8. NTFS rw for any user 9. Bootloader configuration (especially startup order for dual boot/multi boot setups) This feature might be useful for every user who wants to customize or configure the system according to his needs. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313289

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[openFATE 308017] Show languages at first in booting from instalation DVD/CD or Live CD
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 19 Nov '16

19 Nov '16

Feature added by: Mindaugas Baranauskas (embar-) Feature #308017, revision 1 Title: Show languages at first in booting from instalation DVD/CD or Live CD openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Mindaugas Baranauskas (embar-) Description: In booting from Ubuntu Live CD, language selection is the fist task. Can OpenSUSE do this too in Live CD or in installation DVD/CD? -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308017

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[New: openFATE 310357] user settings on installation
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 19 Nov '16

19 Nov '16

Feature added by: Sirko Kemter (gnokii) Feature #310357, revision 1 Title: user settings on installation openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Sirko Kemter (gnokii) Description: on during the installation process on step "create new user" is doing "Automatic Login" per default on. Even its a laptop and the laptop pattern is choosed from yast automaticly. it would be a little bit more secure for new user who not know what that means to make that not as default. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310357

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[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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