January 2017 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[New: openFATE 319035] Make YaST (incl. modules available in GNOME Software
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Dec '19

22 Dec '19

Feature added by: Dominique Leuenberger (dimstar) Feature #319035, revision 1 Title: Make YaST (incl. modules available in GNOME Software openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Dominique Leuenberger (dimstar) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: GNOME Software is an other way of handling installations. Instead of being package centric, it is application centric. An application is being represented by means of an appdata.xml file in it's setup (installed to /usr/share/appdata), then a metadata parser extracts this info and produces 'AppStream' metadata (to be consumed by software centers) In order to make extensions/plugins to applications discoverable, a package can add a metainfo.xml file to the same location and have itself listed as an extension/addon to the application. For YaST, this results in: - an appdata.xml file being provided together with YaST.desktop (done) - For all yast modules to install a metainfo.xml file, describin their extensive nature to yast. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/319035

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[New: openFATE 318458] Reading user process memory
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Apr '19

26 Apr '19

Feature added by: Sławomir Lach (Lachu) Feature #318458, revision 1 Title: Reading user process memory Requested by: Sławomir Lach (lachu) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Reading user's process memory or writting to it is very bad think. Malware can stole passwords or change settings of application. I have two idea about solving this issue: 1. Dissallow to debug(reading/writting memory) process placed in /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin 2. Dissallow to debug(reading/writting memory) process of file not belonging to user, who execute file. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/318458

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[New: openFATE 320873] Remove copy_to_system from control.xml and AutoYaST
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 20 Feb '19

20 Feb '19

Feature added by: Ancor Gonzalez Sosa (ancorgs) Feature #320873, revision 1 Title: Remove copy_to_system from control.xml and AutoYaST openSUSE Distribution: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Ancor Gonzalez Sosa (ancorgs) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: In 2006 an generic mechanism to (silently) copy files from an existing filesystem to the system being installed was introduced in YaST as part of the implementation of two different features (fate#120103 and fate#300421). Any information to the user about the files being copied was intentionally left out (see comments in #300421). In 2008 the list of files was moved to control.xml and the AutoYaST profile (fate#305019). But the documentation and schema for the AutoYaST profile were never updated to reflect the change. We have received several bug reports and Fate entries about it since then, from incomplete lists of files (bug#956515, bug#956976) to non-intuitive or incomplete behavior (fate#319624, bug#956976) and everything in between. Starting with yast2-installation 3.1.187 and yast2-users 3.1.49, the original features do not longer need to use "copy_to_system" and the corresponding section is now empty in the control files of both SLE and openSUSE. I would like to completely drop the "copy_to_system" feature since it's obscure (everything happen behind user's back), problematic (quite some bug reports), not necessary (not longer needed by the originating features) and poorly documented (not even in the AutoYaST schema). -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/320873

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[New: openFATE 310701] package byobu in an opensuse repository
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 28 Jan '19

28 Jan '19

Feature added by: Divan Santana (divansantana7) Feature #310701, revision 1 Title: package byobu in an opensuse repository openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Divan Santana (divansantana7) Description: Would be great if anyone using opensuse could zypper in byobu . Unfortunately it's not in any opensuse repo despite it being a great tool for administrating linux servers. I'm quite surprised this isn't already available for opensuse. Would be a nice addition for 11.4 -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310701

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[New: openFATE 322073] yast should not override ip_forward setting
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 16 Jan '19

16 Jan '19

Feature added by: Bernhard Wiedemann (bmwiedemann) Feature #322073, revision 1 Title: yast should not override ip_forward setting openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Bernhard Wiedemann (bmwiedemann) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: someone thought, this bugfix qualifies as feature: http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1010036 Test Case: echo net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1 > /etc/sysctl.d/50-ip-forward.conf sysctl --system 2>/dev/null |grep "ip_forward = " net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1 Use Case: as a system administrator I want to override ip_forward setting in an easily scripted manner by writing my preferred values to /etc/sysctl.d/50-ip-forward.conf Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: manual configuration is deprecated and yast overriding admin's settings should be a thing of the past. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/322073

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[New: openFATE 308445] Tor is not working out of box
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 29 Nov '18

29 Nov '18

Feature added by: Algimantas B (algyzas) Feature #308445, revision 1 Title: Tor is not working out of box Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Neutral Requested by: Algimantas B (algyzas) Description: Let's say I installed tor, it is came alone, without privoxy. One should download it manually. And then if I try :~> screen torify konqueror hich: no tsocks in (/home/senis/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/jvm/jre/bin:/usr/lib/mit/bin:/usr/lib/mit/sbin:.) /usr/bin/torify: Can't find tsocks in PATH. Perhaps you haven't installed it? [screen is terminating] There is a guide http://en.opensuse.org/Privoxy_tor_squid how to setup it, I'll try it, but in some other distributions it works out of box like this. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308445

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[New: openFATE 309627] Enhance 'Safely Remove' to spin-down and power-off usb HDDs
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 07 Nov '18

07 Nov '18

Feature added by: Pete Clayson (Olmy) Feature #309627, revision 1 Title: Enhance 'Safely Remove' to spin-down and power-off usb HDDs openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Pete Clayson (olmy) Description: 'Safely remove' should (as far as possible) allow for genuine safe removal of all media. Under certain other OSs, the 'safely remove' option on usb devices will... 1/ On usb pen drive with a power/activity led, switch it off (trivial nicety, but reassuring). 2/ On usb HDDs, spin down the disk and power off. This seems more important. There is some discussion about this, for example, http://elliotli.blogspot.com/2009/01/safely-remove-usb-hard-drive-in-linux.… (http://elliotli.blogspot.com/2009/01/safely-remove-usb-hard-drive-in-linux.…) I know that the latest version of Ubuntu does this and there is a script offered in the above link. However, the script, as it stands and run on my installation of OpenSUSE, does not seem to work (in the same way as WinXP or Ubuntu, anyway - my WD600D036 disk does not power off) despite the positive messages in verbose mode. Perhaps this is the CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND option mentioned? -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309627

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[New: openFATE 320385] Let Zypper know the version number of openSUSE
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 19 Sep '18

19 Sep '18

Feature added by: Philipp Bielefeldt (pbiel) Feature #320385, revision 1 Title: Let Zypper know the version number of openSUSE openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Philipp Bielefeldt (pbiel) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: All repo names in openSUSE are structured to have the version number/name in it, such as http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/science/ openSUSE_Leap_42.1 / (for 42.1); I do a lot of repo handling via bash scripts and I find myself over and over again telling someone: "Here, this is a script to install all the software you'll need right nowâ¦ But you have to specify your version string in the repo's name before running it" â 50% chance I will get asked "What do you mean? Where shall I put what?!" I think it was more convenient and less error prone if zypper commands yould use a variable such as osVersion that can be put to replace the string. On openSUSE Leap 42.1 zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/science/$osVersion/ "Science" would than automatically change to zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/science/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/ "Science" and so forthâ¦ Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: This feature would it make easier for admins to write scripts that handle software management/installation on different versions of openSUSE. It would also facilitate writing advice to people on the internet (e.g. the openSUSE wiki) on how to perform certain actions that concern repo management. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/320385

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[New: openFATE 314778] Use polkit for YaST privilege management
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 14 Sep '18

14 Sep '18

Feature added by: Dainius Masiliunas (GreatEmerald) Feature #314778, revision 1 Title: Use polkit for YaST privilege management openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Dainius Masiliunas (greatemerald) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: At the moment of writing, YaST relies on having root privileges through a graphical sudo in order to view and carry out most tasks. However, there is no reason why simply displaying those tasks should be restricted like that. YaST should always be started with user privileges, and only ask for additional privileges when they are truly needed - when the selected tasks should be carried out. This can be achieved by using polkit. It also brings a lot of other benefits. Use Case: Users who do not have access to the root password currently also do not have access to a lot of functionality that does not actually require the password, such as searching for package information. Users that do administrative tasks are also subjecting the system to possible security risks by running YaST with full root privileges. Using polkit would increase security and prevent potential user mistakes. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Using polkit, the graphical interface of YaST would always be run as a normal user. That means that code that should not have elevated privileges - like GUI - would not run with them. More could be done without needing to enter the root password - package information query, printer setup, device information overview, reviewing network configuration options etc. In a restrictive environment, the system administrator could set certain tasks to be available for use by regular users, or to allow certain tasks to be run by certain users only. The authentication screen would provide more information about what tasks are about to be carried out for increased security. For instance, if a custom YaST module requests permission to modify the partition table, while it claims to only set up the date and time, it would be clear to the user that the module is either fraudulent or is malfunctioning. In order to not have to authenticate after every single change a module wishes to do, a global queue for the changes could be created (like what is shown by the /etc/sysconfig editor once its changes are to be applied). Once the global "apply" button is pressed, the user would be informed of what actions will be carried out and what privileges will be given to carry them out. Then, once the user confirms that by supplying a password, all the changes are applied. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314778

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[New: openFATE 319626] Check password strength for encrypted LVM
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 21 Aug '18

21 Aug '18

Feature added by: Arnold Mesper (amesper) Feature #319626, revision 1 Title: Check password strength for encrypted LVM openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Arnold Mesper (amesper) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: A simple password check is done only when selecting encrypted LVM in the main installation screen. No check is done, when creating encrypted LVM via expert partitioner. The same check as performed for user passwords (using cracklib) should be available for encrypted LVMs too - both in the main installation screen as well as in the expert partitioner. The user must be able to accept using a weak password, thus the password strength check must only issue a warning (and not mandate a minimum password length like now in the main installation screen). This is necessary in order to allow testing an installation without having to remember a complex password. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Especially novice users must be warned if password is weak for LVM, as with weak passwords, full disk encryption is useless. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/319626

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[New: openFATE 314606] Improved Btrfs subvolume management in YaST Partitioner
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 21 Aug '18

21 Aug '18

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. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314606

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[New: openFATE 314529] Add XFCE and LXDE live cds in software.opensuse.org
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 19 Jul '18

19 Jul '18

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 -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314529

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[New: openFATE 318341] Include "fixparts" on the live rescue CD
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 19 Jul '18

19 Jul '18

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. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/318341

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[New: openFATE 314607] formatting
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 18 Jul '18

18 Jul '18

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. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314607

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[New: openFATE 315592] retire /etc/ssl/certs as r/w for admins
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 11 Jul '18

11 Jul '18

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. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/315592

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[New: openFATE 322297] Yast2 working in wayland
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

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 -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/322297

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[New: openFATE 314706] New default theme
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

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. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314706

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[New: openFATE 312838] Hook up fwzs to NetworkManager
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 19 Jun '18

19 Jun '18

Feature added by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Feature #312838, revision 1 Title: Hook up fwzs to NetworkManager Hackweek VII: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Switching zones in the firewall zone switcher is currently a manual task. NM needs to provide hooks to make fwzs adjust the firewall automatically. http://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/08/28/firewall-zone-switcher-updated/ http://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/07/10/1453/ -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312838

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[New: openFATE 318196] Redesign YaST Storage Code
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 25 May '18

25 May '18

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) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/318196

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[New: openFATE 315060] Remove double configuration-posibilities (Yast/KDE)
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Apr '18

22 Apr '18

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 cÂ´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 -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/315060

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[New: openFATE 315059] Remove double configuration-posibilities (Yast/KDE)
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Apr '18

22 Apr '18

Feature added by: Thomas Langkamp (tomtomme) Feature #315059, 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 cÂ´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 -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/315059

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[New: openFATE 318356] Add firewalld to openSUSE
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Apr '18

22 Apr '18

Feature added by: Mathias Homann (lemmy04) Feature #318356, revision 1 Title: Add firewalld to openSUSE openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Mathias Homann (lemmy04) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: firewalld provides a dynamic firewall that can handle iptables, ip6tables and ebtables based on the connections saved in NetworkManager. With firewalld the firewall configuration can be changed "on the fly" without having to reload the whole firewall tables. Firewalld is particularly useful for computers with highly volatile network setups, i.e. mobile hardware (laptops) or virtualization hosts. it would be desirable to add firewalld as an alternative to SuSEfirewall2 for users that want it. Test Case: Test case: I have been using firewalld from home:lemmy04:firewalld for a couple of months now to no ill effect. Test case 2: firewalld in its current version is the default firewall subsystem in fedora and RHEL7... Use Case: In Network Manager you can define for each stored connection which firewall zone will be used for the interface if that connection is used. Best use case for this: wireless interface on a laptop of someone who travels a lot. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: SuSEfirewall2 is static and according to its developer not actively developed anymore. Also, current network setups can easily call for more than three zones, which firewalld provides by default. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/318356

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[New: openFATE 311089] Disable system bell by default if sound card is installed
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 21 Apr '18

21 Apr '18

Feature added by: Pieter De Decker (pdedecker) Feature #311089, revision 1 Title: Disable system bell by default if sound card is installed openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Pieter De Decker (pdedecker) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: One of the first things I do after installing openSUSE is disabling the system bell by adding this to ~/.inputrc: set bell-style none Its volume is needlessly high. The bell scares the hell outta me whenever it creeps up because I backspaced too much on the command line. My suggestion: disable the system bell by default, unless no sound card is installed. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: It's a simple fix for something that has been bugging me forever. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311089

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[openFATE 308182] Create administrator tool for replicating OBS resources
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 20 Apr '18

20 Apr '18

Feature added by: Adrian Schröter (adrianSuSE) Feature #308182, revision 1 Title: Create administrator tool for replicating OBS resources Buildservice: Evaluation Priority Requester: Desirable Projectmanager: Desirable Requested by: Adrian Schröter (adriansuse) Description: A tool for replicate defined projects from a remote OBS instance to a local instance would be helpfull. This should offer different levels of replication depth: * Just latest sources or including past source history (maybe with a date limiter) * Replicate binaries for :full tree ( to be able to bootstrap yourself ) or all binaries from package directories. The tools would be helpfull as CLI and/or as part of the admin web frontend. The remote instance should be access via the frontend api, while the local instance must be accessed via backend source and rep server (+ local frontend api for creating projects and packages). -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308182

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[New: openFATE 310652] Have an Etherpad install on openSUSE infrastructure
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 28 Mar '18

28 Mar '18

Feature added by: Jos Poortvliet (jospoortvliet) Feature #310652, revision 1 Title: Have an Etherpad install on openSUSE infrastructure openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Jos Poortvliet (jospoortvliet) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Currently the marketing team in particular makes use of lots of piratepad's to work collaboratively on articles, announcements, plans and other things. Wiki's don't offer the ease and real-time collaboration features needed so piratepad is perfect. Except that it isn't. Piratepad has some serious issues (see "Why do we want this?"). So we would like to have an Etherpad install on openSUSE infrastructure. Having our 'own' Etherpad instance on an openSUSE server would solve these issues. Even just having it as a SUSE Studio virtual image so it can be run somewhere would be good enough. In general, the openSUSE servers are pretty dependable and even when not, we know who to ping to solve problems. Use Case: Usecase would be pretty much half the work the marketing team does - writing announcements, articles, planning... Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: The current 'solution' to use Piratepad has a bunch of issues: Stability is a big one - Piratepad is down quite frequently, sometimes for a whole day, making our work difficult. Another serious issue is oversight. We can't see what pads we have, resulting in lost pads (and the work we put into them) and duplication of efforts. Then there is the lack of control. All piratepads are fully public - but we have sometimes things we'd like to keep under the lid like announcements we are working on, articles, board things etcetera. Etherpad provides access control which would help us immensely. Part of that control issue is the ability (or lack there off) of deleting pads - we can't do that on Piratepad. Finally, we don't OWN Piratepad. If it went away RIGHT NOW, we would loose MANY important articles, announcements and other good work. It would be a small disaster for the marketing team and it's getting potentially worse as we do more and more work on Etherpad. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310652

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[New: openFATE 312804] Hermes integration on the openSUSE wiki
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 28 Mar '18

28 Mar '18

Feature added by: Sebastian Oliva (tian2992) Feature #312804, revision 1 Title: Hermes integration on the openSUSE wiki openSUSE Infrastructure: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Sebastian Oliva (tian2992) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: An extension to the wiki software, to add Hermes support to the Wiki software, enabling digests and advanced notifications to the Watch List. Use Case: Anna edited the openSUSE wiki, adding a tutorial to configure repositories. She subscribes to the page and enables notifications. When John edits the page, Anna gets a twitter notification, letting her know, there was an edition in the page. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312804

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[New: openFATE 320681] Admin Issue Dashboard
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 27 Mar '18

27 Mar '18

Feature added by: Adrian Schröter (adrianSuSE) Feature #320681, revision 1 Title: Admin Issue Dashboard Buildservice: Evaluation by project manager Milestone: 2.8 Priority Requester: Important Projectmanager: Important Requested by: Adrian Schröter (adriansuse) Requested by: Adrian Schröter (adriansuse) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Turn the admin warning and error mails into a dash board. These are problems which get detected by the api or backend code and needs a helping hand by the admin. It is not supposed to be a replacement for errbit, which is for debugging developer issues. The issues need to be stored in a way that they can be identified again. If the problem get fixed they must be removed by the system again. If the same problem is changing (eg. more data becomes out-of-sync between api and backend) the same entry must get updated. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/320681

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[New: openFATE 319313] Keep showing running maintenance incidents to packager
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 27 Mar '18

27 Mar '18

Feature added by: Adrian Schröter (adrianSuSE) Feature #319313, revision 1 Title: Keep showing running maintenance incidents to packager Buildservice: New Milestone: 2.7 Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Adrian Schröter (adriansuse) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Package maintainers want to be able to see running maintenance updates. Currently they see an update, which they have prepared only when: - their maintenance update request is not yet accepted - they keep their bugzilla entry open (which is referenced in patchinfo). This is good for the "my work" view, which should only show tasks where the packager has to act. But there is currently no easy way to see all running updates on request. There are two possible scenarios of not-yet-released updates: - open incident, still building or collecting updates - frozen incident, running release request (read being tested by QA). The open incident can be covered by a search for patchinfos where the user is listed as packager and where the project is not locked. The frozen incident situation should be covered by monitoring the request. There is fate #310145 which wants a generic monitoring of requests. We can use this by adding the packager from _patchinfo to the release request. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/319313

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[New: openFATE 318339] Clone repo API support
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 27 Feb '18

27 Feb '18

Feature added by: Adrian Schröter (adrianSuSE) Feature #318339, revision 1 Title: Clone repo API support Buildservice: Evaluation by engineering manager Milestone: 2.7 Priority Requester: Mandatory Projectmanager: Important Requested by: Adrian Schröter (adriansuse) Requested by: Stephan Kulow (coolo) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Coolo wants the obs_admin support for cloning repos as command. Rudi may also wants this. I assume we need this as background/invoked job like the project copy is implemented. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/318339

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[New: openFATE 308899] allow repository specification in project meta xml
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 27 Feb '18

27 Feb '18

Feature added by: Adrian Schröter (adrianSuSE) Feature #308899, revision 1 Title: allow repository specification in project meta xml Buildservice: Evaluation Priority Requester: Important Projectmanager: Important Requested by: Adrian Schröter (adriansuse) Description: We have currently to set Type, Repotype and Patterntype in project conf data. That makes it hard to add an images repo easily with a gui that works. Before creating code interpreting the prjconf, I would like to suggest to extend repository xml element to define this as default. Opinions ? Feature is completed when we have an "Add kiwi images repository" button. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308899

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[New: openFATE 308619] Provide Kwallet integration for Firefox
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 25 Feb '18

25 Feb '18

Feature added by: Jimmy Berry (boombatower) Feature #308619, revision 1 Title: Provide Kwallet integration for Firefox openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Jimmy Berry (boombatower) Description: I have wanted such a feature for sometime and recently discoved https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/49357 via identi.ca talk. Since openSUSE 11.2 includes KDE integration for Firefox, I think this would be a great thing to either add/finish/polish or just defaultly include as part of integration. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308619

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[New: openFATE 310922] central system user registry
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Feb '18

12 Feb '18

Feature added by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Feature #310922, revision 1 Title: central system user registry openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Once upon a time all systems users were defined in aaa_base via the default /etc/passwd file. When the uid space below uid 100 got too small a new dynamic range between 100 and 499 was introduced. So nowadays packages dynamically create a user in %pre which gets a random uid in this range. Disadvantage: uids are different on every system. Usually this is not a problem but for programs that export files over the network it is. TV recordings made by VDR for example. useradd has a --preferred-uid option for such cases. It's possible to specify a uid and useradd tries to use it. If it's already taken another one is chosen. Thefore I'd propose to leverage that feature: - introduce a central uid registry for system users, e.g a file in aaa_base - lower SYSTEM_UID_MAX (/etc/login.defs) to e.g. 349 and assign "preferred uids" in the rage 350-499. - change useradd calls in packages to a macro that transparently decides whether a preferred uid needs to be used. Use Case: - two systems running vdr, one for recording, the other one for playback on a TV want to share recordings via nfs. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310922

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[New: openFATE 322072] support multiple back references in issue_trackers
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 31 Jan '18

31 Jan '18

Feature added by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Feature #322072, revision 1 Title: support multiple back references in issue_trackers Buildservice: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Someone thought it's a good idea to refer to github issues as gh#project/repo#number according to the packaging guidelines: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_Patches_guidelines#Current_set_o… OBS however only supports one capture group in the parser. It needs to support multiple and allow to place them arbitrarily in the output. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/322072

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[New: openFATE 310464] Changer text console color
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 30 Jan '18

30 Jan '18

Feature added by: Максим Муруев (slimy) Feature #310464, revision 1 Title: Changer text console color openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Максим Муруев (slimy) Description: Feature for yast change console color. And green color for console by default. I think green is opensuse color. For first console stay white, for best look boot log. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310464

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[New: openFATE 310680] Make Icon Theme installer only show .tar.gz themes
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 30 Jan '18

30 Jan '18

Feature added by: 6tr6tr 6tr6tr (6tr6tr) Feature #310680, revision 1 Title: Make Icon Theme installer only show .tar.gz themes openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: 6tr6tr 6tr6tr (6tr6tr) Description: I recently tried installing new icon themes into openSUSE 11.3 via the Configure Desktop app. It showed a lot of themes with an "install" button, but when I pressed it, nothing happened. It turns out, that's because it only installs .tar.gz files and a number of the themes listed are in other formats. So the "Get New Themes..." popup should only show files it can actually install. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310680

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[openFate 305144] [Feature-request] Yast as a Linux learning tool
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 30 Jan '18

30 Jan '18

Feature added by: Arvin Schnell <aschnell(a)novell.com> Feature #305144, revision 1, last change by Title: [Feature-request] Yast as a Linux learning tool openSUSE-11.1: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Alexey Eremenko <al4321(a)gmail.com> Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Hi All ! I Have very good new idea: converting Yast into a Linux learning tool. This is very simple to achieve: Yast must show the commands it executes and files it modifies, in a nice GUI dialog. It will allow all kinds of Linux users understand how things really work. Enable learn new things or remind how old-but-forgotten things work for seasoned people. Great, isn't it ? P.S. Jay Vollmer recommends, that among the commands that Yast shows as it executing, it should also recommend "man pages" for the relevant underlying commands. -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov", 29.jul.2008. Discussion: #1: Alexey Eremenko <al4321(a)gmail.com> (2008-07-29 12:09:11) Rajko M. wrote: If one wants to see what is gong on in background, than look at logs in realtime. There is console (Konsole) and command tail. Run as root: tail -f /var/log/YaST2/y2log and then start YaST and play with. -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov", 29.jul.2008. #2: Jerry Houston <jerry.houston(a)comcast.net> (2008-07-29 15:41:34) Sounds like a great way for new users to learn more about what's under the hood. Or, what's under the bonnet, for the Brits. #3: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis(a)novell.com> (2008-07-31 07:11:21) Moving to maintainers to decide. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305144

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[openFATE 307545] Add openSUSE's Bugzilla and openFATE to Firefox's Bookmarks folder.
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 30 Jan '18

30 Jan '18

Feature added by: Ricardo Varas (RicardoVarasSantana) Feature #307545, revision 1 Title: Add openSUSE's Bugzilla and openFATE to Firefox's Bookmarks folder. openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Ricardo Varas (ricardovarassantana) Description: I am thinking about the importance of those two features being included in openSUSE's Brand of Firefox, in case the user needs or feels like filing a bug or requesting and/or checking new features, For new users it'd become a much easier task having those items bookmarked by default. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307545

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[openFATE 306972] produce proper diffs for status update mails
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Jan '18

02 Jan '18

Feature added by: Karsten König (remur) Feature #306972, revision 1 Title: produce proper diffs for status update mails openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Karsten König (remur) Description: Beeing interested in a very active feature request like https://features.opensuse.org/306967 results in a lot of mails, all which contain the full feature request with all the comments, it'd be nice if one could switch to a more bugzilla like behaviour so you only see what's changed, or in case it is an awnser maybe quote the previous message as well, but finding 4 lines tagged with + in a thread where people feel +1 beeing a proper comment is somewhat awkward. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306972

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[openFATE 305931] Temporary Build Support (aka mbuild)
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Jan '18

02 Jan '18

Feature added by: Adrian Schröter (adrianSuSE) Feature #305931, revision 1, last change by Title: Temporary Build Support (aka mbuild) Buildservice: Evaluation Priority Requester: Important Projectmanager: Important Requested by: Adrian Schröter (adriansuse) Description: A temporary build support is wanted to obsolete what we currently have internal as mbuild. A temporary Build should fullfill the following requirements: * Upload of local sources without the need to create a project or package namespace manually. * Build as part of an existing project, without the need to have write access there and without to modify it. * Build results should be stored and downloadable for X time. Afterwards they need to get removed automatically. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305931

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[New: openFATE 316634] Change HISTCONTROL default value to ignoredups
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 20 Dec '17

20 Dec '17

Feature added by: Jorge Vallecillo (altmas5) Feature #316634, revision 1 Title: Change HISTCONTROL default value to ignoredups openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Jorge Vallecillo (altmas5) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: The default value of HISTCONTROL bash enviroment variable should be changed to ignoredups instead of ignoreboth. ignoreboth includes ignorespace, which is a security flaw allowing users to type sensitive commands supressing them from bash_history file and leaving no auditing clue. OpenSUSE should set the tone compared to other distros giving importance needed to security details like these. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Security by default. Minimize risks. Identify malicious users. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/316634

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[New: openFATE 309271] Buildservice should show signing key status
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 20 Nov '17

20 Nov '17

Feature added by: Marcus Rückert (darix) Feature #309271, revision 1 Title: Buildservice should show signing key status Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Marcus Rückert (darix) Description: 13:04:55 < stbuehler> darix: W: GPG error: http://download.opensuse.org ./ Release: The following signatures were invalid: KEYEXPIRED 1270156083 (http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/Tools/Debian_5.0/) It would be nice if the obs would show the expiry date atleast in the webui. some OSC integration would be nice aswell. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309271

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[New: openFATE 314702] Request for package: Obnam
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 11 Oct '17

11 Oct '17

Feature added by: Rahim Barbamas (rahim123) Feature #314702, revision 1 Title: Request for package: Obnam Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Rahim Barbamas (rahim123) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Would it be possible to package Obnam for openSUSE? http://liw.fi/obnam/ It is a highly advanced backup/versioning control system with de-duplication. It is packaged for CentOS and Debian already. Thanks! -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314702

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[New: openFATE 312047] make repo keys available on project's web site via SSL
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Sep '17

26 Sep '17

Feature added by: John McInnes (jamjamjamjam) Feature #312047, revision 1 Title: make repo keys available on project's web site via SSL Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: John McInnes (jamjamjamjam) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: I was thinking of a way to get repo keys to users in a secure fashion, so they can have some measure of trust, instead of just blindly accepting/importing new keys when installing software. Personally, before accepting a key, I will usually try to google it by ID or fingerprint, search various gpg key servers, ask on a mailing list or newsgroup for 3rd party verification, etc... its a pain in the ***. So I see that the buildservice provides a https interface to project pages. It would be a nice feature to provide the project repo keys there. At least show ID and fingerprint. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312047

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[New: openFATE 308207] Help users to print two sided pages
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 17 Sep '17

17 Sep '17

Feature added by: Luís Nogueira (luisnogueira) Feature #308207, revision 1 Title: Help users to print two sided pages Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Luís Nogueira (luisnogueira) Description: http://forum.kde.org/brainstorm.php#idea82537 Manual duplex printing it's easy at windows. We should implement this feature! And it's environment friend. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308207

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[New: openFATE 309019] mtp support for opensuse and dolphin
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Sep '17

12 Sep '17

Feature added by: Agustin Chavarria (dj_ubun_1) Feature #309019, revision 1 Title: mtp support for opensuse and dolphin openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Agustin Chavarria (dj_ubun_1) Description: Some peoples have music players, and they can't navigate to this files of music player, just using amarok or other apps. The mtp support for dolphin it's an important feature, i have a philips PSA610, and i never can use this music player in linux :S -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309019

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[openFate 305737] remove warning of missing swap from expert partitioner
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Sep '17

12 Sep '17

Feature added by: Arvin Schnell (aschnell) Feature #305737, revision 1, last change by Title: remove warning of missing swap from expert partitioner openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Arvin Schnell (aschnell) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: There are requests to remove the warning about a missing swap device from the expert partitioner for systems with only SSDs. I want to go one step further and remove the warning altogether since RAM has increased so much in the past. Relations: - proposal for SSD (novell/bugzilla/id: 467874) https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467874 -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305737

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[New: openFATE 312137] Equivalent of nvidia-settings for Nouveau
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 10 Sep '17

10 Sep '17

Feature added by: Audard Guillaume (AGui) Feature #312137, revision 1 Title: Equivalent of nvidia-settings for Nouveau openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Audard Guillaume (agui) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: The open source driver for Nvidia GPU, Nouveau, is more and more performant. It is already fully usable instead of the proprietary driver. However, there is no GUI to configure display. SaX2 module is not available anymore in YaST in openSUSE 11.4, and there is no way to make modifications such as defining the dpi. Developping an equivalent of nvidia-settings for Nouveau would push even more users to switch to open source drivers. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312137

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[openFATE 308149] KDE needs to have a touchpad configuration utility.
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 10 Sep '17

10 Sep '17

Feature added by: Rafael Belmonte (EagleScreen) Feature #308149, revision 1 Title: KDE needs to have a touchpad configuration utility. openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Rafael Belmonte (eaglescreen) Description: KDE needs a touchpad configuration tool, if Sax2 does not provide it, you can package a new kcm module: kcm_touchpad, which can configure synaptics based touchpads, you can find it in KDE-Apps: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/kcm_touchpad?content=113335 -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308149

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[New: openFATE 310706] zypper: allow to adjust proposed solver solution
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 10 Sep '17

10 Sep '17

Feature added by: Ján Kupec (jkupec) Feature #310706, revision 1 Title: zypper: allow to adjust proposed solver solution openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Ján Kupec (jkupec) Description: It would be nice if it would be possible to change the solver solution at the point when the installation summary is shown and zypper prompts whether to continue. This would allow the user to conveniently remove unwanted packages automatically chosen for installation, add another package, etc. This is especially needed if it is difficult to work one's way to the solution (in case of many dependency problems, e.g. during an upgrade). Removing, adding, and keeping an installed version of a package could be implemented as part of this feature request first. Further enhancements can be done later. Use Case: During a dist-upgrade, user goes through a lot of solver problems. Then sees something unwanted in the summary. Currently the only solution is to quit, lock a package or change some command line options, restart the dist-upgrade and go through all the painfull solving again. With this feature the user would have a good chance of changing the summary in a convenient way. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310706

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[New: openFATE 309381] antivirus configurator and security center applet
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 10 Sep '17

10 Sep '17

Feature added by: Michael Calmer (mcalmer) Feature #309381, revision 1 Title: antivirus configurator and security center applet openSUSE-11.3: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Marcin Derlukiewicz (bober10) Description: Antivirus configurator on yast2 security panel right next to the firewall. It should allow to configure several engines and allow to set automatic scans, updates, launch scans for defined folders etc. It should also provide some easy autoconfigurator for apparmor as a behavioral antivirus. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309381

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[New: openFATE 310787] Intel(R) Trusted Execution Technology (Intel(R) TXT) Support
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 10 Sep '17

10 Sep '17

Feature added by: Joseph Cihula (jcihula) Feature #310787, revision 1 Title: Intel(R) Trusted Execution Technology (Intel(R) TXT) Support openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Joseph Cihula (jcihula) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Intel(R) Trusted Execution Technology (Intel(R) TXT) provides a hardware dynamic root of trust for measurement (D-RTM). Intel TXT can be used to reduce the trusted computing base (TCB) of system SW such as an OS kernel or hypervisor/VMM. TXT provides platform configuration protection such as memory aliasing checks, register locking, etc. It also provides reset protection via a hardware memory lock and memory scrubbing. In multi-processor systems, Intel TXT strengthens the RAS capability through CPU-rooted measurement of the BIOS and hardware-enforced protections of RAS events. Finally, TXT provides for a platform owner -controlled launch control policy. Intel TXT support consistes of two parts: kernel/VMM enabling and the tboot package. Kernel support involves building the Linux kernel (>= 2.6.35) with the CONFIG_INTEL_TXT flag set. This will also enable it for KVM. The default Xen build already supports TXT. Linux/Xen support actually assumes that TXT is "managed" through the Trusted Boot (tboot) module and thus, the tboot package is also needed for complete support. Tboot is an open source, pre-kernel/VMM module that uses Intel TXT to perform a measured and verified launch of an OS kernel/VMM. Use Case: 1) Disk encryption 2) Hardened local key storage/operations 3) Remote attestation Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Enabling Intel TXT in the kernel/VMM will increase the trust and value of the above usage models. And the same value proposition that TXT has for Fedora also applies to openSuSE: http://lwn.net/Articles/382363/ TXT also compliments the OpenTC work being done by/with SuSE. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310787

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[openFATE 305929] Startup in X even when the xorg.conf fails
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 10 Sep '17

10 Sep '17

Feature added by: Joop Boonen (worldcitizen) Feature #305929, revision 1, last change by Title: Startup in X even when the xorg.conf fails openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Joop Boonen (worldcitizen) Description: As there are more and more new users within openSuSE with less knowledge. I was thinking it's an option to boot in Vesa when the original xorg.conf fails. Than the user is still able to fix the problem via a GUI i.e. YaST and SAX. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305929

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[New: openFATE 320930] Use most as default pager
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 04 Sep '17

04 Sep '17

Feature added by: Steffen Klein (sklein7) Feature #320930, revision 1 Title: Use most as default pager Requested by: Steffen Klein (sklein7) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Use most as default pager Just one reason out of many: Syntax highlighting in man pages makes them much more readable. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/320930

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[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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[New: openFATE 311108] Package Maven
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 03 Aug '17

03 Aug '17

Feature added by: Stephen Shaw (decriptor) Feature #311108, revision 1 Title: Package Maven Hackweek VI: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Stephen Shaw (decriptor) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: I want to get maven2 package, then jetty6 including its deps, and ultimately eclipse and its deps. I have actually started this under home:decriptor:maven2 -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311108

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[New: openFATE 311443] why do we still use windows
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 03 Aug '17

03 Aug '17

Feature added by: Jean-Daniel Dodin (jdd) Feature #311443, revision 1 Title: why do we still use windows openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Jean-Daniel Dodin (jdd) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: This is a collector to summarize what are the key features to allow us to remove windows forever Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: We want to get rid of windows one and for all time -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311443

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[New: openFATE 312861] Implement a Chat/IM client in browser
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 03 Aug '17

03 Aug '17

Feature added by: Sankar P (psankar) Feature #312861, revision 1 Title: Implement a Chat/IM client in browser Hackweek VII: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Sankar P (psankar) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Implement a chat/IM client within the browser itself. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312861

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[New: openFATE 308247] Typo3
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 03 Aug '17

03 Aug '17

Feature added by: Harvey Nimmo (hnimmo) Feature #308247, revision 1 Title: Typo3 Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Harvey Nimmo (hnimmo) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: I would like to see typo3 as part of the opensuse package. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: This package seems to be a powerful complement to LAMP for Web Content management. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308247

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[New: openFATE 308337] Installed version of ack
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 03 Aug '17

03 Aug '17

Feature added by: Karl Fischer (karlfischer) Feature #308337, revision 1 Title: Installed version of ack openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Karl Fischer (karlfischer) Description: Ack is another alternative to grep it's very powerful and extremely easy to use. More benefits are Color highlighting of search results and improves searching. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308337

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[New: openFATE 312399] Software search (webpage) shoud use automatic home repros when nothing other
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 03 Aug '17

03 Aug '17

Feature added by: melchiaros melchiaros (melchiaros) Feature #312399, revision 1 Title: Software search (webpage) shoud use automatic home repros when nothing other openSUSE.org: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: melchiaros melchiaros (melchiaros) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: ..could be found.(The title was to long) When I using the Software search website http://software.opensuse.org/search?q=&baseproject=ALL&lang=en it happens frequently to me that nothing could be found with the default search options. A switch in the search options to "Include users' home projects" could be performed manually, which contains often the missed software. But it would be a simple time saving modification when the search would do the switch automatic when the Software is in no regular repro. To point it out: When it could not found in the regular repros, show the user the results with the home repros and not show: "No packages found in the openSUSE build service that matched your query. Maybe you want to extend your search using the search options." I think this would be more user friendly. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312399

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[New: openFATE 312913] Support of Creative EMU-0204 USB-soundcard
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 03 Aug '17

03 Aug '17

Feature added by: Mikhail B (asc7uni) Feature #312913, revision 1 Title: Support of Creative EMU-0204 USB-soundcard openSUSE 12.1: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Mikhail B (asc7uni) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Support of this device already in repositories of ALSA, but not released in some reason. BTW, patch that enabling 0204 support was back-ported in Ubuntu so it support sound card very well E-MU 0204 on Linux: working! (http://www.head-fi.org/t/553693/e-mu-0204-on-linux-working) Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Because we love openSUSE more than Ubuntu ) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312913

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[openFATE 308203] Add an up-to-date patched linuxwacom
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 03 Aug '17

03 Aug '17

Feature added by: Daniel FAIVRE (geomaticien) Feature #308203, revision 1 Title: Add an up-to-date patched linuxwacom Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Daniel FAIVRE (geomaticien) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Please add an up-to-date linuxwacom package to OpenSuSE repos, patched for n-trig support . See : http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Howto_install_OpenSuSE_on_HP_tx2-xxxx_laptops Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: This is mandatory to get the support of multitouch TabletPC based on n-trig hardware, and therefore to achieve https://features.opensuse.org/300689 feature request. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308203

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[New: openFATE 308429] Package pyexiv2, the python binding for exiv2
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Aug '17

02 Aug '17

Feature added by: Damon Lynch (damonlynch) Feature #308429, revision 1 Title: Package pyexiv2, the python binding for exiv2 Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Damon Lynch (damonlynch) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: pyexiv2 is a python binding to exiv2, the C++ library for manipulation of EXIF and IPTC image metadata. It is a python module that allows your python scripts to read and write metadata (EXIF, IPTC, thumbnail) embedded in image files (JPEG, TIFF, ...). For more information, see: http://tilloy.net/dev/pyexiv2 (http://tilloy.net/dev/pyexiv2) Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: OpenSuse lacks this package, in contrast to Fedora, Mandriva, Debian/Ubuntu, etc. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308429

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[New: openFATE 308562] Leafnode
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Aug '17

02 Aug '17

Feature added by: Tristan Miller (psych0naut) Feature #308562, revision 1 Title: Leafnode Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Tristan Miller (psych0naut) Description: Leafnode (http://leafnode.sourceforge.net/) is an easy to use NNTP server for small networks. It was previously packaged with openSUSE but seems to have been removed in the 11.2 distribution. As many popular newsreaders, such as KNode, do not support offline news reading, it is necessary to use Leafnode. Please start packaging Leafnode again in the official distribution. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308562

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[New: openFATE 311106] USB-bootable NET install image
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Aug '17

02 Aug '17

Feature added by: Andrew Jorgensen (ajorgensen) Feature #311106, revision 1 Title: USB-bootable NET install image openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Andrew Jorgensen (ajorgensen) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: The LiveCD iso images can be dd'd to a USB disk and booted directly without any other modification. I often want to USB-boot the NET install image. I know I can start a NET install from the Live image but the download is larger and can't be installed to a smaller USB disk. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311106

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[New: openFATE 309356] Include Qore language in the official repository
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Aug '17

02 Aug '17

Feature added by: Petr Vanek (subik) Feature #309356, revision 1 Title: Include Qore language in the official repository Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Neutral Requested by: Petr Vanek (subik) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Would it be possible to include Qore programming language in the official repository? I'm working for a company - Qore creator - and we are strongly interested in this area just because we are using OpenSuse as a main platform for our business. We have RPMs packages ready in the OBS: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/misc/ and we are ready to maintain it with the full cooperation with OpenSuse developers with release cycles on mind. More info: http://qore.org/ http://www.qoretechnologies.com/ Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Qore in the main repo should make easier life for our customers and Qore users worldwide. Although it looks like Qore is an unknown language, we know it's used (mainly in the enterprise area) not only by our customers, but by independent 3rd party users too. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309356

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[New: openFATE 308597] fswebcam
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Aug '17

02 Aug '17

Feature added by: Thomas Spahni (vodoo) Feature #308597, revision 1 Title: fswebcam Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Thomas Spahni (vodoo) Description: fswebcam is a command line application written in C. It captures images from a V4L1/V4L2 compatible device. The resulting image is saved to a file or sent to stdio. The package is small but powerful. It's only requirements are that the GD library be installed with JPEG, PNG and FreeType support. The source is available at http://www.firestorm.cx/fswebcam/files/fswebcam-20091223.tar.gz -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308597

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[New: openFATE 308348] integrate openocd in repository
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Aug '17

02 Aug '17

Feature added by: ben m (grumml) Feature #308348, revision 1 Title: integrate openocd in repository Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: ben m (grumml) Description: I would appreciate if openocd would be available in the official opensuse repositories. It is a great tool for hardware developers, is quite stable, has a good documentation, is easy to use and under heavy development. More information can be found on the project page: http://openocd.berlios.de/web -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308348

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[openFATE 308135] Upgrade Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) package
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Aug '17

02 Aug '17

Feature added by: Martin Hicks (mohicks) Feature #308135, revision 1 Title: Upgrade Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) package Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Martin Hicks (mohicks) Description: OpenSuSE currently ships a fairly dated PCP package (2.5.0). It would be nice if a more modern version of PCP was included. Version 3.0.0 has just been released by the community. Part of the effort to move from 2.9.x to 3.0 was to update some of the packaging to split the libraries out of the core package and to create various -devel packages. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308135

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[New: openFATE 309120] freimage
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Aug '17

02 Aug '17

Feature added by: Andres Ayala (andresayala) Feature #309120, revision 1 Title: freimage Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Andres Ayala (andresayala) Description: FreeImage is an Open Source library project for developers who would like to support popular graphics image formats like PNG, BMP, JPEG, TIFF and others as needed by today's multimedia applications. FreeImage is easy to use, fast, multithreading safe, compatible with all 32-bit versions of Windows, and cross-platform (works both with Linux and Mac OS X). -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309120

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[New: openFATE 309009] Flightgear
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Aug '17

02 Aug '17

Feature added by: Sebastian Turzański (polrus) Feature #309009, revision 1 Title: Flightgear Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Sebastian Turzański (polrus) Description: Great opensource flight simulator - really takes some skills to compile by Your own making it unavailable for the newbies in Opensuse -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309009

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[New: openFATE 309024] Inclusion of swftools
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Aug '17

02 Aug '17

Feature added by: Matthew Ayres (Solar_Granulation) Feature #309024, revision 1 Title: Inclusion of swftools Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Matthew Ayres (solar_granulation) Description: As the project website says: "SWFTools is a collection of utilities for working with Adobe Flash files (SWF files). The tool collection includes programs for reading SWF files, combining them, and creating them from other content (like images, sound files, videos or sourcecode). SWFTools is released under the GPL." Of course many say that Flash is becoming obsolete, but it is still widely used and very popular. Not only is it used in web desgin, but also as a platform for Multitouch development. Swftools, being open and stable, would make an excellent addition to the openSUSE standard repository. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309024

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[New: openFATE 309954] keepalived
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Aug '17

02 Aug '17

Feature added by: Eric Renfro (psi-jack) Feature #309954, revision 1 Title: keepalived Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Eric Renfro (psi-jack) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: keepalived is used for monitoring real servers within a Linux Virtual Server (LVS) cluster. keepalived can be configured to remove real servers from the cluster pool if it stops responding, as well as send a notification email to make the admin aware of the service failure. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: keepalived is a very nice, simple, and yet powerful failover monitoring system as well as LVS director engine. pacemaker can be nice, but in many cases it may be too much for the job needed, this is where keepalived can come in and make a network router with backup completely available. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309954

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[New: openFATE 322277] LiveDVD/LiveUSB add choise-installable packages.
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 21 Jul '17

21 Jul '17

Feature added by: Sławomir Lach (Lachu) Feature #322277, revision 1 Title: LiveDVD/LiveUSB add choise-installable packages. Requested by: Sławomir Lach (lachu) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Currently not entire space on LiveDVD are used. I will be happy if there's directory omitted, when copying by default. In this directory will exists additional language packages, which could been installed onto ram or onto hard disk(in case of install onto hard drive, it will install process). Use Case: Currently user must install additional packages, after installing system. In my opinion, due to free space on medium, OpenSuSE could have additional packages, so user can boot onto LiveCD and on boot process, system will unpack language packages onto ramdisk and will select to install it in installation process. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: It will be killer feature. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/322277

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[openFate 305640] Replace gnomesu by something more modern
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 21 Jul '17

21 Jul '17

Feature added by: Vincent Untz <vuntz(a)novell.com> Feature #305640, revision 1, last change by Title: Replace gnomesu by something more modern openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Vincent Untz (vuntz) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: gnomesu is kind of obsolete and unmaintained. In the world of PolicyKit, we could use the new PolicyKit-aware gksu, or the adminkit stuff done by Rodrigo. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305640

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[openFate 305688] system wide spellchecker (hunspell)
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 28 Jun '17

28 Jun '17

Feature added by: Kálmán Kéménczy (kkemenczy) Feature #305688, revision 1, last change by Title: system wide spellchecker (hunspell) openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Kálmán Kéménczy (kkemenczy) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Why Hunspell? MySpell is not developed for quite a long time either in Mozilla and in OpenOffice.org. Hunspell is a fork of MySpell, it has great improvements is several ways, and fully backward compatible with MySpell. Main features: * Extended support for language peculiarities; Unicode character encoding, compounding and complex morphology. * Improved suggestion using n-gram similarity, rule and dictionary based pronounciation data. * Morphological analysis, stemming and generation. * Hunspell is based on MySpell and works also with MySpell dictionaries. * GPL/LGPL/MPL tri-license http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunspell http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/ Fedora project: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureDictionary Ubuntu project: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ConsolidateSpellingLibs I also find a reference in the wishlist: http://en.opensuse.org/Wishlist_Various Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=354554 -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305688

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[New: openFATE 310338] Always create /root/autoyast.xml for every installation
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 27 Jun '17

27 Jun '17

Feature added by: Darryl Miles (dlmiles) Feature #310338, revision 1 Title: Always create /root/autoyast.xml for every installation openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Darryl Miles (dlmiles) Description: Distribution such as RHEL (and any of its blood line) always leave a file /root/anaconda.ks which can be used to repeat the installation via their anaconda/kickstart process. The parallel to this with openSUSE is YaST2 and AutoYaST. The feature request is asking that at the end of every installation in the home directory of the root user the necessary file or files are created to allow the user to repeast the installation with the same options. If multiple files are needed then it maybe better provided as a single file using any archiver (tar/cpio/zip). Also making sure this format could be used directly with AutoYaST. There should be a YaST2 option to disable the emitting of configuration but the default should be to enabled it just like with RHEL. The process of making the user use another program to create an autoyast.xml descriptor is no where near as efficient as running through the entire installation process once and knowing you always get a descriptor out at the end of it. Which you can then if you like open up the editor to modify. This has far superior usability IMHO. If there are concerns over encoding hashed/encrypted passwords into the file then the generation of this installation configuration to file(s) in the root users home directory should have a tri-state value. * Off (meaning do no create any files), * On (meaning to create file(s) in the root home directory that would be necessary to perform the installation that just happened again with a new set of defaults and mostly unattended, however any security sensitive information such as passwords would not be included at all, this would be the new default for everyone), * On with Passwords (meaning the same as On but any security senstive information would also be emitted in the best possible way to retain as much security as possible, for example the password hash is in the file no the plain text password). -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310338

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[openFATE 307862] zypper parallel dowloading of packages
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 27 Jun '17

27 Jun '17

Feature added by: Aris Karagiannidis (arkara) Feature #307862, revision 1 Title: zypper parallel dowloading of packages openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Aris Karagiannidis (arkara) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Now, i think that this is already done with apt. What should happen is that zypper should download packages concurrently and when it does download them all, then it should install them Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Faster package management -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307862

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[New: openFATE 318807] practical steps to parallel downloadinging of updates
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 27 Jun '17

27 Jun '17

Feature added by: Jason Newton (jenewton) Feature #318807, revision 1 Title: practical steps to parallel downloadinging of updates openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Jason Newton (jenewton) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Yet another night I had to do updates, and 50-75 percent of that time I am watching being squandered away. This goes on year after year (been using SuSE since 2008 after Ubuntu, Gentoo, SlackWare before it in reverse order of usage). With typically over 700 updates equating out to about 60 minutes I think we can establish that updates on OpenSUSE are slow - even provided infinite bandwidth and SSDs. I've cracked open the zypper sources more than once with the intension of starting to rectify this but I cannot find the time to accomplish it. The problem is that the downloading used by zypper needs to be made parallel. The reasons for this are to support overlapping transfers to keep downloads going - there is a significant setup time to start a http based download and it adds up over 700 packages in a typical development installation. It gets worse when patches come up and shift execution to disk, throwing away precious internet bandwidth timeslots. This is the case with zypper (d)up --download=in-advance. The good news is this doesn't have to involve threads. I've taken a look before at adding support of this nature to zypper and while the codebase for zypper is all nice and OOPed, it is super tighly coupled to single task at a time execution. It is however using curl if I recall correctly. Parallel downloading with curl is very easy if already using curl and can be done without threads. Another way to do this without massive complications to the code base are executing a plan of what to do as is current and then entering a special "sync mode" (like rsync for updates) or exporting a shell script or text file of links so a user can download the updates to cache with an external tool designed for efficient batched downloading with pipelining and multiple outbound requests and either isolates the parallel tasks to a local module or gives the problem to an external tool. Zypper, after running this download tool or "sync mode" just sees alot of cache hits and proceeds as normal thereafter. The epitime is having a seperate download thread(pool) and connect it all up over something like DDS or ZMQ. You can build more stuff inhouse if you're into that. As dependencies are resolveed in the download threads, the update is installed in the main thread. This way update installation downloading is performed concurrently or overlapping which is going to be the fastest updates get to be installed. I think the last bit should be put on the roadmap but really this needs addressed and not repeated kicking forever and ever and so I urge SUSE zypper maintainers to provide a practical way for power users and suse admins to do this basically now if they were to go add a factory zypper repo - if this means "sync mode" or script/batch file generation for something like aria2c, that is really not so bad. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Resolving the problem in the right way will increase efficiency on SUSE's servers and reduce time of the update process both for SUSE and user (also read $ and time). Everybody wins and SuSE admins/power users/developers get to spend more time on other tasks. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/318807

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[New: openFATE 309996] zypper download speed up
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 27 Jun '17

27 Jun '17

Feature added by: Robert Xu (bravoall1552) Feature #309996, revision 1 Title: zypper download speed up openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Robert Xu (bravoall1552) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: I think we should have zypper use aria2 or some similar program to allow 2 consecutive downloads at once. While there is an option in zypp.conf, it does not work naturally with zypper and GUI tools. Having 2 downloads at once can speed up installation rapidly. For those who aren't in the DownloadInAdvance mode, maybe they can: * download 2 at once, add them to install queue, and have the install queue process as soon as the first download is done. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Because Zypper is a little slow, and that's preventing a lot of packages from being installed in time. We should be able to have zypper as speedy as possible. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309996

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[New: openFATE 319679] HTTP/2
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 27 Jun '17

27 Jun '17

Feature added by: Jorge Hernandez (jurgen73) Feature #319679, revision 1 Title: HTTP/2 openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Jorge Hernandez (jurgen73) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Would you please include HTTP/2 module in Factory (Tumbleweed)? HTTP/2 is almost here and it would be great if Tumbleweed is ready for it, right now there are 2 modules that look like they would do it, mod_h2 and mod_spdy, whichever is better would be appreciated. Thanks. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/319679

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[New: openFATE 318397] do not delete required Windows partitions
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 27 Jun '17

27 Jun '17

Feature added by: Chris Murphy (kopathangawa) Feature #318397, revision 1 Title: do not delete required Windows partitions Requested by: Chris Murphy (kopathangawa) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: The 13.2 installer makes an inappropriate suggestion that results in the deletion of the Intel Rapid Start partition used by Windows 8 for fast boots. There are certain cases where this could lead to corrupted boots. Test Case: dual-boot default installation proposes deleting a required partition https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=914582 Use Case: UEFI Windows dual-boot installation with openSUSE. Installer should recommend options that don't result in possible corruption or data loss. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/318397

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[New: openFATE 311366] Integrate biosdevname into the openSUSE installer
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: Narendra K - (narendra_k) Feature #311366, revision 1 Title: Integrate biosdevname into the openSUSE installer openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Narendra K - (narendra_k) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Description: On a Dell PowerEdge server with multiple add-in cards, the naming of the network interfaces is non-deterministic. This results in 'eth0' not mapping to "Embedded NIC 1" as labeled on the server chassis. This issue is seen on Dell PowerEdge 10G above. This feature addresses this issue by renaming network interfaces based on their location on the system motherboard at install time. The naming policy it suggests are as follows:    <![endif]--> Embedded devices: em<port> Add-in PCI cards: pci<slot>p<port>_<virtual function instance> On a PER710 with 4 Lan-On-Motherboard interfaces and a dual port add-in network controller, the interface names would look like - Onboard interfaces - em1 em2 em3 em4 Interface names for the dual port add-in controller on pci slot 2 pci2p0, pci2p1 If the second port has virtual functions enabled -pci2p1_0, pci2p1_2 ... etc Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: This feature request addresses the non-determinism in network interface naming and allows referring to the interfaces based on their physical location on the motherboard. This would help in easy administration and eliminates the need for embedded state such as HWADDR into the configuration files and names will be consistent across reboots. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311366

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[New: openFATE 311364] Include biosdevname udev helper utility into openSUSE
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: Narendra K - (narendra_k) Feature #311364, revision 1 Title: Include biosdevname udev helper utility into openSUSE openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Narendra K - (narendra_k) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: This feature is needed to implement the "Consistent Network device naming-Name network interfaces to match chassis labels" (https://features.opensuse.org/310896) Biosdevname is a udev helper which can suggest chassis based names to network interfaces. Please find latest version of biosdevname here - http://linux.dell.com/files/biosdevname/permalink/biosdevname-0.3.7.tar.gz http://linux.dell.com/files/biosdevname/permalink/biosdevname-0.3.7.tar.gz.… git://linux.dell.com/biosdevname.git -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311364

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[New: openFATE 313430] Safe snapper snapshot creation / restoration during boot / shutdown
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: Ivar Nikolaisen (Quantumboredom) Feature #313430, revision 1 Title: Safe snapper snapshot creation / restoration during boot / shutdown openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Ivar Nikolaisen (quantumboredom) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Currently Snapper takes snapshots both when doing system changes using YaST / Zypper, and also automatically on a schedule. The problem with these snapshots is that system integrity is not guaranteed (i.e., a snapshot can be taken while a file is being written, leaving the file in a corrupted state upon restoring the snapshot). I propose a mechanism where snapper takes a snapshot upon system shutdown at a stage where the snapshot can be guaranteed to be consistent. This could for example be just like a timeline snapshot, except the description should highlight that it was taken at system shutdown. It would also be very nice if it was possible to restore snapshots when booting (I believe Fedora is already working on something like this), but perhaps this should be a separate feature request? Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: It is obviously useful to have known-good restore points. Especially useful for the many users of proprietary display drivers (even more so if using Tumbleweed!). -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313430

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[New: openFATE 310713] put /etc under (git) version control
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: Christoph Obexer (cobexer) Feature #310713, revision 1 Title: put /etc under (git) version control openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Christoph Obexer (cobexer) Description: put /etc under (git) version control to track changes made to the configuration, merge new configuration options coming from package updates / security fixes an handle the case where RPM decides to create a .rpmsave - where a administrator would need to migrate all changes from the old version to the new one in order to not end up with an unusable system upon reboot. Integration in YaST would be very cool, you could have a look at what an update changed in your system, and YaST could force you to migrate changes to configuration files that are no longer in effect. there are a fewsilly things in /etc (CUPS, alsa, ld.so.cache, and the bootsplash images i recall) that cause a lot of "fake" changes, but they would be easy to "fix". checking differences in configurations between multiple systems(to diagnose problems...) would be easy too, simply clone them and diff them, very efficient ;) . making backups of the system configuration would be easy too (simply back up /etc/.git and restoring would be non destructive in that you could check what changes will be restored) (subversion would not work well, for example because of gconf IIRC) Use Case: there was a security update once concerning session entropy in PHP, since the php.ini has been modified on the system in question the update process created a .rpmnew file, a file i would have never found it if I had not put /etc under git version control. With git however it was easy to see the file, I moved it over the php.ini and had a look at the changes, merged them in and committed the changes. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310713

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[New: openFATE 308465] Filter for Fold View Widget & Dolphin
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: John Moore (Johnfm3) Feature #308465, revision 1 Title: Filter for Fold View Widget & Dolphin openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: John Moore (johnfm3) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: The ability for a user to filter for files that the user or a group has permissions too. Perferably the group that the user is a member of. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: In my example, I have 7 users that are joined to 4 groups (stored in LDAP) kids, preteens, teens, parents. On a NFS share, I have 105 movies, but 15 movies the members of the kids group can watch. Parents can watch all 105 movies. Its hard for members of the kids and preteen groups to quickly pick out which movie they can watch when there is 105 videos to browse thru. This gets worst when you add a Large Music collection of over 20,000. Move this to a small business enviorment, and you have a large public share that only has a small percentage of files that pertain to you. In the ideal world, the Administrator would have different shares for different groups, but in the work place things grow and dont get properly managed and relocated. When things do get move, users get pissed when things arent where they were. So typicly public shares get left alone and keep growing. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308465

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[New: openFATE 311033] GPS devices
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: Toran Korshnah (ToranK) Feature #311033, revision 1 Title: GPS devices openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Toran Korshnah (torank) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: It woul be nice to update, control and use my TomTom without the need for a Winbox. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311033

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[New: openFATE 316815] AppArmor profile for Skype
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: Tristan Miller (psych0naut) Feature #316815, revision 1 Title: AppArmor profile for Skype openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Tristan Miller (psych0naut) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Skype is probably the most popular VOIP and videoconferencing software. Unfortunately, it is proprietary, and is known to violate users' privacy -- AppArmor reports it touching all sorts of files it has no business reading, such as files in the user's Firefox or SeaMonkey profile directories. Please consider producing and maintaining an AppArmor profile for Skype in the openSUSE distribution. User-contributed profiles such as the ones in the wiki (http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Skype#Privacy_and_security) become nonfunctional with new Skype releases. It's not trivial to produce working AppArmor profiles for Skype (I wasn't able to do it myself after an hour or so or trying) but perhaps some knowledgeable openSUSE security developer could apply her expertise to creating an officially supported profile. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/316815

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[New: openFATE 314445] Update puppet and puppet-server
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: Niels Abspoel (aboe76) Feature #314445, revision 1 Title: Update puppet and puppet-server openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Niels Abspoel (aboe76) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: With the 12.2 release puppet is at 2.7.6-4.1.2 while puppetlabs is stable at 2.7.19 This is the same version as in Factory. I've tested the packages from the factory repo and they work without a problem on suse 12.2. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Puppet is a very good opensource configuration management system and with an up to date package, more people will use it on OpenSuse and create more modules for this distribution. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314445

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[New: openFATE 313387] Provide all extensions in extensions.gnome.org in one of the community repos
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: Narayansamy S (vazhavandan) Feature #313387, revision 1 Title: Provide all extensions in extensions.gnome.org in one of the community repos openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Narayansamy S (vazhavandan) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Provide all extensions in extensions.gnome.org in one of the community repos or provide it as a separate community repo starting openSUSE 12.2 Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: ==>Will make shell adoption easier to GNOME users ==>Will turn GNOME 2 fanboys to GNOME 3 fanboys ==>openSUSE will become the coolest distribution on our planet etc..etc.. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313387

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[New: openFATE 314747] replace the gnome default shell with (this) customized shell
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: Rizki Aulia Rachman (operamaniac) Feature #314747, revision 1 Title: replace the gnome default shell with (this) customized shell Education Li-f-e: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Rizki Aulia Rachman (operamaniac) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: a customized shell from gnome shell that have more simple, efficiency, intuitive and rich navigation, but less eye-candy called "manokwari", its a default shell from a distro from indonesian named "BlankOn" and developed by Indonesian Linux Motivator Foundation. it have less memory usage, more snapy and stable than gnome default shell. this shell is build up from html 5 & css 3 , you can get it from here : https://github.com/BlankOn/manokwari and this is review for BlankOn & manokwari : http://mylinuxexplore.blogspot.com/2012/09/blankon-80-rote-review-least-ram… Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: because the simplicity, efficiency, ease to use and intuitiveness of this customized shell, you will like it a lot! :) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314747

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[New: openFATE 311257] fdutils
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: Christopher Yeleighton (yecril71pl) Feature #311257, revision 1 Title: fdutils openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Christopher Yeleighton (yecril71pl) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: The fdutils package contains utilities for configuring and debugging the Linux floppy driver, for formatting extra capacity disks (up to 1992K on a high density disk), and for sending raw commands to the floppy controller. Use Case: fdutils contain fdmount to automatically mount/unmount disks when they are inserted/removed Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: We want to provide the computer operator the possibility to easily exchange information using floppy disks. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311257

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[New: openFATE 310982] Please add Lightspark as a standard avant-garde/forefront browser flash player
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: Carlo Strata (carlo_strata) Feature #310982, revision 1 Title: Please add Lightspark as a standard avant-garde/forefront browser flash player Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Carlo Strata (carlo_strata) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: I think Lightspark https://launchpad.net/lightspark is an avant-garde/forefront browser flash player with modern hardware support design and written from scratch. We could find it only on Packman repository, but both gnash and swfdec are in standard OpenSuSE repository (swfdec in Packman one too and in a more recent version). Are there too some language (flash, swf files) legal troubles? Carlo Use Case: Browser safer and efficiently with this plugin. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: If we could live free, but with a modern design plugin it's better. I'm tired to live with my CPU at least at 45% load with 64 bit flash player "Square" p3: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10_square.html -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310982

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[New: openFATE 320886] yast2-opensuse-wiki module request
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: Mikhail Kasimov (k_mikhail) Feature #320886, revision 1 Title: yast2-opensuse-wiki module request openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Mikhail Kasimov (k_mikhail) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Hello! The idea is to create yast2-opensuse-wiki module, which should be installed by default, to make it easy to find important opensuse wiki-articles SDB: and so on for new-coming users. opensuse-wiki icon should be placed on 'Support' section in YaST2 GUI. For example: http://bit.ly/1rXnw31 Language depends on LC_CTYPE (e.g. https://ru.opensuse.org/Portal:Wiki for Russian speaking users, https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Wiki for English speaking users and so on). Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: This will make easy to find important opensuse wiki-articles, SDB: and so on for new-coming users. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/320886

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[New: openFATE 320249] Show update status on screen locker
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: Sławomir Lach (Lachu) Feature #320249, revision 1 Title: Show update status on screen locker openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Neutral Requested by: Sławomir Lach (lachu) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Show update status from update applet of Plasma on Plasma's(KWin) screenlocker. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/320249

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[New: openFATE 318468] New Packages Group
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: Rajesh Ganesan (ganesanrajesh) Feature #318468, revision 1 Title: New Packages Group openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Rajesh Ganesan (ganesanrajesh) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: In Yast package management, we have filters (Package groups) like suggested, recommended, orphaned, unneeded, etc which are very useful indeed. However, a new filter/group like "new" would be very useful. It would help users to find newly introduced packages. Use Case: It is not now possible to find a new package. Updates can be found out - say, blue color. A different color can be used for such new packages Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Suppose, a package is not found in opensuse at a point of time. When it is later introduced, an average user, who may be waiting for this, may not be aware of such package. Using this filter, he would find it immediately. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/318468

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[New: openFATE 319719] [Update] Send information about patches to e-mail
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: Sławomir Lach (Lachu) Feature #319719, revision 1 Title: [Update] Send information about patches to e-mail openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Neutral Requested by: Sławomir Lach (lachu) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: In my opinion, PackageKit should send information about patches (concatenated description of each installed patch) to each user, who wish to receive this kind of information. Use Case: 1) I uses computer with family and each member of my family wish to know, what new version of software provides. 2) Imagine I'm system admin and set updates to install automatically. I wish to know, what was changed on my system. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: This could be helpful in case, whereas many people uses one computer. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/319719

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[New: openFATE 314676] Reinstate Column View Mode in KDE Dolphin file manager
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: Steven Bert (dodydog) Feature #314676, revision 1 Title: Reinstate Column View Mode in KDE Dolphin file manager openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Steven Bert (dodydog) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: In OpenSUSE 12.2, the KDE file manager dolphin lost its column view - an analogous GUI to the Mac OS X Finder. For many, this is considered a regression. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314676

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[New: openFATE 314730] useradd -s should accept shell basename
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: Ned Ulbricht (ned_ulbricht) Feature #314730, revision 1 Title: useradd -s should accept shell basename openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Ned Ulbricht (ned_ulbricht) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: This proposed feature is one possible way to deal with Bug 796242 - "pcsc-lite: preinstall scriptlet adds user scard with bad path for nologin shell". Currently, the absolute location of the executable for system users' shells is coded into rpm preinstall scriptlets scattered across packages throughout the distro. I propose centralizing that knowledge into useradd. Thus, for instance * useradd -s nologin newaccount * useradd -s dash newaccount would both be acceptable and would result in a lookup of the correct executable path before user account creation. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314730

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[New: openFATE 317073] Update Fresh Memory to latest version
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: Stakanov Schufter (stakanov) Feature #317073, revision 1 Title: Update Fresh Memory to latest version openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Stakanov Schufter (stakanov) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Please update freshmemory to the latest version available with new features. Current version 1.1.1 from 20 october. Allows to edit words within the cards during the repetition. Fresh memory package is part of the "education" repository. Current version is 1.0+hg -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/317073

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[New: openFATE 314844] New Package group and focus on applications for public and private Libraries
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: Timothy Butterworth (timothy_m_butterworth) Feature #314844, revision 1 Title: New Package group and focus on applications for public and private Libraries openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Timothy Butterworth (timothy_m_butterworth) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: All, Please consider looking into a new user area in library management and automation software. As public libraries have existed for many years with the goal of bringing knowledge freely to the masses they also need to be up to date with technology as well. FOSS is a perfect fit as many active FOSS applications exist and many are being worked on by libraries. This could later become a new dedicated buisness unit. Here are some links regarding information on FOSS use in Libraries. http://foss4lib.org/decision-support http://foss4lib.org/packages http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_and_open-source_software_packages… http://www.washoecounty.us/library/open_source.html http://www.libsuccess.org/Open_Source_Software http://evergreen-ils.org/about.php I am sure there are many more use cases than these as I compiled the list above quickly. Here is a good oportunity to expand the user community, developers and buisness as well. Libraries need a complex set of applications. It would be a great idea to create a survey to assist in locating popular software already being used that is spicific to library use for the new emphasis. Offering value added bundled applications for Integrated Library Management ILS, as well as other Library Management and Automation such as more advanced and easy to implement pay for printing services would be a great way to enter into this world wide market. Also almost all libraries now offer some degree of KIOSK service. Improving KIOSK management for example overwriting the home directory from a secure snapshot after use to remove any previous user data. Of course a good starting point is making the current FOSS Library specific applications available with a special emphasis by having its own package group and advertising there availability. I personally think this should not just be simply merged into the education spin but it could be added for school library management. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: To expand FLOSS adoption into available markets that already have similiar goals. To share knowledge with those who may otherwise may not have the opportunity to enjoy the privledge of knowledge. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314844

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[New: openFATE 312784] Replace Amarok with Clementine
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: Roger Luedecke (Shadowolf7) Feature #312784, revision 1 Title: Replace Amarok with Clementine openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Roger Luedecke (shadowolf7) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Clementine is a KDE music player based of the old 3.x Amarok. Clementine boasts a more intuitive interface, that is easier to use on small displays. It also includes a robust visualizer implementation for those of us who enjoy them. The ease of use, superior performance and stability, and the stronger feature set make Clementine a clear choice to replace the buggy and unstable Amarok. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Amarok is difficult for new users coming from Windows of Gnome. Also, no other player has robust visualization like Clementine. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312784

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[New: openFATE 309697] drop radeonhd in favor of radeon driver
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: Thiago Sayao (sayao) Feature #309697, revision 1 Title: drop radeonhd in favor of radeon driver openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Thiago Sayao (sayao) Description: I appreciate the work done with the radeonhd driver, but currently the radeon driver works better for me (radeon HD2600 PRO cad). Benefits of the radeon driver (for my card, don't know about others): - KMS (would look nicer if opensuse uses plymouth); - Better 3D support; - Faster video; - HDTV support with sound (has a bug that sound only outputs on one connector, but works) Compiz works nicely :) With the radeonhd driver, video is very slow, no KMS, no 3D, Compiz does not work, wrong resolution is detected. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309697

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[New: openFATE 309391] Give Yast partitioner ability to create NTFS partition
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: Shawn Rogers (67GTA) Feature #309391, revision 1 Title: Give Yast partitioner ability to create NTFS partition openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Shawn Rogers (67gta) Description: Is it doable to give the Yast partitioner the ability to handle the NTFS format? I normally use gparted for this, but have been making myself use the Yast tools, and have noticed the missing NTFS format option. Is this a legal issue, or just never implemented? Would love to see this feature. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309391

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[New: openFATE 309676] Automatic WebYaST skin creation using an arbitrary image.
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: Martin Kudlvasr (mkudlvasr) Feature #309676, revision 1 Title: Automatic WebYaST skin creation using an arbitrary image. Requested by: Martin Kudlvasr (mkudlvasr) Description: 1) User uploads a new logo (or any other image) to WebYaST 2) WebYaST chooses the most interesting colors in the logo, generates proper image and css files. 3) WebYaST looks now matches the uploaded logo. User is amazed. 4) Profit!!! I plan to use netpbm to detect the dominant colors in the image. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309676

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[New: openFATE 310083] Hack
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: Jonathan Torres (snoogle38) Feature #310083, revision 1 Title: Hack Hackweek V: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Jonathan Torres (snoogle38) Description: Ready to hack -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310083

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[New: openFATE 310859] Rework www.o.o entry page
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: Thomas Schmidt (digitaltomm) Feature #310859, revision 1 Title: Rework www.o.o entry page openSUSE Infrastructure: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Thomas Schmidt (digitaltomm) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: We need to rework the www.o.o entry page to use the bento design, make it easier to add news, and be translateable by .po files so we can use our l10n infrastructure. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310859

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[New: openFATE 309142] Grsecurity/PaX
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: Árpád Bíró (biroa) Feature #309142, revision 1 Title: Grsecurity/PaX openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Árpád Bíró (biroa) Description: Grsecurity and PaX, not necessarily in the default kernel, but at least as an alternative. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309142

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[New: openFATE 310059] Application to running exe and msi files.
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: Sławomir Lach (Lachu) Feature #310059, revision 1 Title: Application to running exe and msi files. openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Sławomir Lach (lachu) Description: I don't understand why we should run Wine(if installed) once user clicks on exe/msi file. In my opionion, users keep only installers on desktop and removes it after installation. Also keeping every application installed in one prefix is not good solution. There also should winecfg been running once this case. Of course, we should have DB to store information about connection between wineprefix and exe file. We can also add other enchancement, like asking to connect PlayOnLiinux repository to download Linux installer script. Another example is asking user to select application icon and application category(probably it need to depther wine integration). Use Case: Peter would like to install Dev-C++. It only downloads it from page, click twice on desktop and select create new prefix. Once installation completes, he can remove installator from desktop. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310059

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[openFATE 308180] Development versions of packages include in openSUSE release notes
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: Peter Gumbrell (gumb) Feature #308180, revision 1 Title: Development versions of packages include in openSUSE release notes openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Peter Gumbrell (gumb) Description: With regard to the inclusion of packages in distros that are 'not intended for end users', and the recent controversies such as the KDE 4.0 release in openSUSE 11.0 (and probable future issues with such things as KOffice 2.0 in openSUSE 11.2), I propose a way to keep 'regular users' better informed of this advice, which is sometimes not dispensed with clarity or through the right channels. I have copied this suggestion to the forums for further feedback. I suggest that all packages known to be in an alpha, beta or other development state are noted as such in some single, central place. The Release Notes might be a good place for this, as it would allow last-minute inclusions, and also ensure the majority of users would be informed during the installation process. There wouldn't need to be too much detail, just a simple list with perhaps a brief, optional summary of the state of each relevant package. The below is my example of how it might read. There might be legal or technical implications to be taken into account. == Alpha, beta and development versions of software packages openSUSE distribution releases sometimes include development versions of certain software packages. This can be due to a number of reasons, such as compatibility with other software or hardware. These programs may be lacking some features, designed for testing use, or may be unstable and not recommended for regular users. Other packages may be relatively stable, but labelled as 'beta' or 'development version' on an almost permanent basis, because of ongoing changes and improvements. Throughout the product lifecycle of openSUSE releases, updates to packages are made available through the 'Software Update' mechanism. From time to time, these may include final versions of packages previously provided as development versions in the original distribution. The following list summarizes packages contained in this release that are known to be 'development' versions. It is intended as a guide for users who might not wish to run unstable versions of software. The list is not exhaustive and there may be some omissions. Kaffeine 0.9pre2* - Latest development release. Included for better stability than alternative versions. K3B alpha3* - Latest development release. Included for better stability than alternative versions. KOffice 2.02* - Development release. Not intended for end users. Kompozer 0.8a4*** - Bugfix / development release, included for compatibility purposes. SeaMonkey 2.0RC2** - Bugfix release. Should be stable for most purposes. Thunderbird 3.0b4 - Bugfix release. Should be stable for most purposes. * Not included on GNOME Live CD ** Not included on KDE Live CD *** Included on DVD version only == Obviously, my own list is just a mock-up and probably incorrect anyway. Perhaps there would even be a way to automate the generation of this list by assessment of package names (rather hopeful I suppose). There could also be a link to a wiki page on opensuse.org, though this assumes users have an Internet connection and hence I don't see it as so practical. Is this idea practical or possible for 11.2? -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308180

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[New: openFATE 310688] Unity Web Player
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: John Newton (john_poiema) Feature #310688, revision 1 Title: Unity Web Player Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: John Newton (john_poiema) Description: Please consider working with Google's Native Client and Chrome Browser to bring the Unity Web Player and access to games and resources developed using Unity to OpenSuse and Linux quicker. http://www.unity3d.com/ http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/13806/what-can-i-do-for-linux-support (http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/13806/what-can-i-do-for-linux-support) And then consider working with the Unity team to bring a native port to OpenSuse in the future. Thank you, Poiema -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310688

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[openFATE 306391] Add migration assistant to the installation
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: Michal Smrž (ilfirin) Feature #306391, revision 1, last change by Title: Add migration assistant to the installation openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Michal Smrž (ilfirin) Description: Ubuntu have great Migration assistan. With it you can migrate your data and some configuration from other Linux distributions and from Windows. Michael Larabel article (http://www.michaellarabel.com/?k=blog&i=83) Ubuntu wiki (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MigrationAssistance) source (http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/m/migration-assistant/migrati…) It would be great, if openSUSE (Yast) has similar feature. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306391

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[New: openFATE 308607] change kickoff menu for most smouth menu
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: cristian díaz (moldavio) Feature #308607, revision 1 Title: change kickoff menu for most smouth menu openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: cristian díaz (moldavio) Description: hange kickoff menu for most smouth menu -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308607

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[openFATE 306737] improve displaying of the release notes
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: Karl Eichwalder (keichwa) Feature #306737, revision 1 Title: improve displaying of the release notes Hackweek IV: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Karl Eichwalder (keichwa) Description: I think we'd need additonal navigation links. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306737

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[openFATE 306732] review existing opensuse enhancement requests
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: Juergen Weigert (jnweiger) Feature #306732, revision 1 Title: review existing opensuse enhancement requests Hackweek IV: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Juergen Weigert (jnweiger) Description: go through the list of enhancement bugzilla items and fate request against opensuse.org / buildservice / package wishlist, grab some, and implement them. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306732

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[New: openFATE 308269] kde4 on netbook
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: Agustin Chavarria (dj_ubun_1) Feature #308269, revision 1 Title: kde4 on netbook openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Agustin Chavarria (dj_ubun_1) Description: it should create a version of opensuse with kde version netbook, to how ubuntu is doing. with plasma netbook -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308269

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[New: openFATE 309237] Bigger default panel
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: Mircea Kitsune (MirceaKitsune) Feature #309237, revision 1 Title: Bigger default panel openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Mircea Kitsune (mirceakitsune) Description: This is a minor change introduced in 11.2 which I believe Opensuse might have been better without. I find the default panel in 11.2 / 11.3 milestone 3 (KDE 4) a bit too small. It's closer to the Windows Taskbar's size, but for Linux I think the previous size was better (I like the default one in 11.1 personally). In my opinion, the current size is not only a bit uglier (the panel's too small compared to everything else) but also makes it harder to click on some buttons, like desktops which are vertically half the size of the pointer. Here are a few screenshots showing the default panel I'm addressing: http://www.linuxforu.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/04-KDE4-Desktop.png -- http://jjtcomputing.co.uk/images/opensuse11.2-desktop.png I believe 35-40 would be a nice default size, the current default apparently being 30 (measured in units shown when clicking Panel Options and dragging the Height slider in 11.2). Of course everyone resizes it to their own like after installing Opensuse, so this hardly has any importance. Just a suggestion for what I believe would be a better default if anyone else agrees. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309237

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[New: openFATE 308610] create interactive dialog for firewall
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: cristian díaz (moldavio) Feature #308610, revision 1 Title: create interactive dialog for firewall openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: cristian díaz (moldavio) Description: create interactive dialog for firewalls for aplications ej p2p apps -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308610

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[New: openFATE 314624] Re-implement the Section Management tab in YAST - Boot Loader for grub2
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 23 Jun '17

23 Jun '17

Feature added by: Mircea Kitsune (MirceaKitsune) Feature #314624, revision 1 Title: Re-implement the Section Management tab in YAST - Boot Loader for grub2 openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Mircea Kitsune (mirceakitsune) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Since grub2 became default for openSUSE, I upgraded to it from grub. Everything works well, but there's one inconvenience: The fields to modify and sort entries are gone from Yast -> System -> Boot Loader. It would be nice if this section could implement the same menu for grub2, so users with less experience don't need to hack configuration files to modify entries. For grub, there was a "Section Management" tab and a "Boot Loader Installation" tab in the Boot Loader window. When grub2 is installed, the first tab is gone, and only the second one exists. Here is a screenshot (not mine) showing the tab that existed for grub and is gone in grub2: http://i45.tinypic.com/lfpyq.png Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: It would be nice if this section could implement the same menu for grub2, so users with less experience don't need to hack configuration files to modify entries. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314624

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[New: openFATE 316956] Device Driver Manager for openSUSE
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 23 Jun '17

23 Jun '17

Feature added by: giuseppe rossi (hawake) Feature #316956, revision 1 Title: Device Driver Manager for openSUSE openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: giuseppe rossi (hawake) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Hi, i think that it could be useful to allow users to switch between OpenSource/Proprietary drivers in use (if both are available obviously) using a simple GUI created ad-hoc for the desktop in use (KDE -> Qt , GNOME/Xfce/Lxde -> GTK). In this way, if there is any kind of problem with a driver a not-expert user can disable it or switch to another one. Therefore i suggest to develop a device driver manager for openSUSE that could be included in YaST, or as a desktop application accessible by a non-root user (like Apper for updates). In certain Debian (Mint, Ubuntu...) derivatives are using something like this: [0] http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=113559&f=47 [1] https://github.com/SolydXK/device-driver-manager Thanks for reading, Bye hawake Use Case: For instance, think to the video card drivers. Recently nVidia, AMD and Intel are improving their drivers but not always are the best choice (especially AMD...). -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/316956

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[New: openFATE 316758] Zypper update with date option
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 23 Jun '17

23 Jun '17

Feature added by: Curtis Rubel (crubel) Feature #316758, revision 1 Title: Zypper update with date option openSUSE.org: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Curtis Rubel (crubel) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: It would be great to be able to run the zypper update or YOU so that you can update using a date/time argument. This way you can specify that you want to update everything up to the specified date/time and leave the newer updates still on the update server. THank you for your consideration. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: If I run around work updating all my dev systems and then finally my customers systems even though I do them one after the other, I cannot reliably ensure they are all on exactly the same updates/releases. This has caused us some time consuming problems in the past, trying to figure out what and why something is working on one system and not another. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/316758

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[New: openFATE 313119] provide a BD/ Blue Ray download image for openSUSE
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 23 Jun '17

23 Jun '17

Feature added by: Elmar Stellnberger (estellnb) Feature #313119, revision 1 Title: provide a BD/ Blue Ray download image for openSUSE openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Elmar Stellnberger (estellnb) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: A ready-to-download blue ray image of openSUSE would be a pleasure for anyone who has to work offline from time to time since it will allow you to do and install everything without an internet conncetion. Currently we only have a netinstall CD for backbone internet and a DVD as install medium for average internet connections. However a blue ray image to install and work completely offline - as this was initially possible just within the size of a DVD in the early days of linux (openSUSE 9.3) - would be of much greater value than a DVD providing not much more than a package cache for a minimized first-place install system. Such a blue ray could not only contain the full rpm-set of the core distribution but also important 2nd party repos like those provided by ATI, Nvidia and Packman as well as the most important repos from the BuildService like the SELinux repo for instance. Debian does already provide a fully-downloadable distribution image; however in the form of 8 DVDs + Update DVDs which may for sure be less practical than a single BD. However this seems to be considered much more a security feature in Debian. Mandatory for the Requester as certain working scenarios require a full system image for external or optical media. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313119

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[New: openFATE 321752] *working* bluetooth (audio) support
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 23 Jun '17

23 Jun '17

Feature added by: Michal Suchanek (michals) Feature #321752, revision 1 Title: *working* bluetooth (audio) support openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Michal Suchanek (michals) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: ok, so I tried to connect bluetooth headphones to a Leap 42.2 box. I had bluez to start with just in case You also need the bluez pulseaudio plugin for sound because there is no other way to get sound out of bluetooth. 1) installing bluez-firmware does not give me firmware for bluetooth dongle. The firmware is in bcm20702a1-firmware. Maybe bluez-firmware should depend on that? 2) after installed the dongle is not brought up and diagnostic tools fail. Is it so difficult to add an udev script that does "hciconfig hci<n> up" for every chi device? 3) gnome-control-center tells me I have no dongles after doing all this 4) Using bluetoothctl I can now connect devices -- unless I attempted connecting them with hcitool which puts them in some broken state. 5) when my headphones are connected pulseaudio shows them as sink but built-in sound card remains default sink. You can STFW for some script that forces sink switch for running applications as well. Totally awesome. I can expect everyone to use bluetooth audio on Linux. So simple. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/321752

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[New: openFATE 318022] evolution tnef integration
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Feature added by: David Hodgson (jetojedno) Feature #318022, revision 1 Title: evolution tnef integration openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: David Hodgson (jetojedno) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: the tnef plugin for evolution seems to have disappeared from all available repositories. A better solution is for evolution to recognise tnef plugins and unpack them automagically rather than present a winmail.dat file for separate processing. Use Case: Contact sends an email with attachments from outlook or exchange. Attachments are packed as winmail.dat files. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: windows outlook & exchange persist and contacts are unable to easily prevent it from sending these nasty attachments. Opening these attachments is difficult in evolution - the file must be saved somewhere, unpacked using tnef then the attachments found and viewed. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/318022

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[New: openFATE 310964] Add YAST module to set up an OpenVPN server
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Feature added by: Jan Krings (liquidsky89) Feature #310964, revision 1 Title: Add YAST module to set up an OpenVPN server openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Jan Krings (liquidsky89) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Many people today use an OpenVPN server to access their personal networks or networks at work. The set up of an OpenVPN server is complex also, as several adjustments must be made at various points in the system. e.g. OpenVPN Configfile, SUSEFirewall, /etc/sysconfig Files. A module would make it easier to set up a OpenVPNserver. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310964

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[New: openFATE 313030] AppSet instead of Apper
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Feature added by: Simone Dedo (Templare) Feature #313030, revision 1 Title: AppSet instead of Apper openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Simone Dedo (templare) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: AppSet http://appset.altervista.org/joomla/en can be the default package manager on openSUSE cause, is written in QT and other distribution such Archlinux and Chakra Linux (know for his addiction with KDE desktop). 1)Automatical generation of applications sections (games, office, multimedia, internet etc.) 2)An embedded web browser that shows selected applications homepages 3)An embedded feed reader that shows news from configured distribution 4)A Tray Icon that periodically shows available upgrades 5)The possibility to choose a touchscreen suitable and animated view 6)Administrator packages management (Upgrades, installs, removes applications) 7)Periodical packages database update 8)Checks dependencies contraints 9)Authentication structure that uses what is already installed to get administrative privileges (only when needed), searching from {kdesu, gksu, beesu, xdg-su or at least an xterm where it executes a sudo command} 10)Cache cleaner tool (to free disk space) 11)Can use ad-hoc libraries for a specific distribution or, like in default, it uses an already existing package manager CLI frontend 11)Requires only Qt libs as installation dependency What about? Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: I believe AppSet can be a better package manager instead of KpackageKit or Apper (a new on openSUSE 12.1). -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313030

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[New: openFATE 314661] tcptunnel
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Feature added by: Harri T. (haba713) Feature #314661, revision 1 Title: tcptunnel openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Harri T. (haba713) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Hi! I suggest adding tcptunnel package to openSUSE distribution. As stated on a page http://www.vakuumverpackt.de/tcptunnel/ "Tcptunnel is a simple TCP port forwarder. This tool listens to a local TCP port and all the received data is sent to a remote host. It can be used to redirect TCP based protocols like HTTP, IRC, NNTP, SSH or SMTP." The source code is here: https://github.com/vakuum/tcptunnel It's a great piece of code! I've used it now for a couple of months in SLES 11 SP2 for SSH and MS Remote Desktop tunnels with no anomalities. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314661

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[New: openFATE 310887] gimp and openoffice are friends
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Feature added by: ernesto figueroa (alolinux) Feature #310887, revision 1 Title: gimp and openoffice are friends openSUSE.org: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: ernesto figueroa (alolinux) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: first of all sorry for my English, I do not speak English and use google to translate. I wish we had opensuse 11.4 on an extension for the default Office suite (open office or openoffice) that give us a graphic editor for Image example: to put an image that gave us the possibility to use gimp, but without leaving openoffice. in order is not proved necessary but I would like that included in openSUSE 11.4. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310887

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[New: openFATE 322401] revert GTK3 upstream's HiDPI usability regression (undersized Firefox UI fonts)
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Feature added by: Felix Miata (mrmazda) Feature #322401, revision 1 Title: revert GTK3 upstream's HiDPI usability regression (undersized Firefox UI fonts) openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Felix Miata (mrmazda) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Short story: post-GTK3 version 3.16, GTK3 builds of various applications, such as Firefox and SeaMonkey (both built with default build settings from ~rv46 and up), when used on Plasma 5, KDE3, TDE, and possibly other DEs, using displays for which >96 DPI is appropriate, do not utilize the font sizes specified by the DE settings unless Xft.dpi, otherwise unnecessary, is explicitly set in the environment. An upstream patch has been submitted that would revert this unnecessary usability regression. Upstream reports that provide more information: UI text sizes no longer inherited from Linux system status: wontfix https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1269274 bad UI fonts in apps built with GTK3 toolkit used with GTK3 libs >3.16 status: official bug report not yet filed http://trinity-devel.pearsoncomputing.net/?0::15168 usability regression: GTK+>3.16.x results in too small GTK3 app UI fonts when logical DPI>96 status: open https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=367499 Generate Xft.dpi from server dimensions at startup if not specified via configfile status: open https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98909 [REGRESSION][BISECTED] Recent change breaks HiDPI setup based on calculated or forced DPI status: wontfix https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757142 757142 contains a patch that could revert the regression. As of now, the regression does not affect 42.1, but does affect all newer versions of openSUSE. In 42.2 at least, the GTK3 3.16 packages from 42.1 can be used as a workaround. I've not tried to install them in Tumbleweed. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Fonts smaller in Firefox UI than in other apps' UIs are simply not acceptable both for usability and aesthetic reasons. Finding and setting an appropriate Xft.dpi to conform Firefox UI fonts is an onerous complication that shouldn't be necessary, especially for users with multiple displays or who routinely switch among displays of diverse densities. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/322401

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[New: openFATE 313000] select the graphic driver at boot
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Feature added by: pier andre (pier_andreit) Feature #313000, revision 1 Title: select the graphic driver at boot openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: pier andre (pier_andreit) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: To have the possibility to select the graphic driver at boot in my opinion is a good idea, if you have nvidia or ati graphic cards, and you want to try the new propietary driver and it doesn't satisfy you, or if you want to try the new nouveau driver, if you have the possibility to select the driver (for example nouveau, nvidia, ati or whatever), you can have easyly a working graphic desktop. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313000

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[New: openFATE 311288] Add YAST feature to remove application settings
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Feature added by: Narayansamy S (vazhavandan) Feature #311288, revision 1 Title: Add YAST feature to remove application settings openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Narayansamy S (vazhavandan) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Kindly include an option in YAST to force removal of .<NAME> Folders when un-installing or de-installing applications through YAST Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Kindly include an option in YAST to force removal of.<NAME>Folders when un-installing or de-installing applications through YAST My home directory is now loaded now with crappy . folders that are driving me crazy.It is tedious to find and remove folders when we uninstall and application Sometimes these folders names are different from that of the application itself,hence the deleting them has become a chore by itself -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311288

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[New: openFATE 308467] Proprietary install driver HELP guide
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Feature added by: Lee Matheson (oldcpu) Feature #308467, revision 1 Title: Proprietary install driver HELP guide openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Lee Matheson (oldcpu) Description: A constant criticism of openSUSE is the lack of an easy continuous installation of proprietary graphic drivers. Is it not possible to post specific (and very obvious) help links to community wiki that provides guidance as to how the proprietary graphic drivers can be installed (as opposed to just a general statement) ? i.e. a link for community help page for ATI proprietary graphic drivers and a similar one for nVidia proprietary graphic drivers. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308467

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[New: openFATE 320916] Include Cinnamon as option during installation.
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Feature added by: Marcelo Junior (marceloatie) Feature #320916, revision 1 Title: Include Cinnamon as option during installation. openSUSE.org: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Marcelo Junior (marceloatie) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Cinnamon seems to be stable enough to be included as option during installation. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: I'm a member of a Linux user group in Brazil, and I've seen a lot of people enjoin this desktop environment. Will be very helpful to new users to install openSUSE Cinnamon during default system installation. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/320916

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[New: openFATE 314592] Include Razor-qt Desktop to the Install options
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Feature added by: Carl Fletcher (caf4926) Feature #314592, revision 1 Title: Include Razor-qt Desktop to the Install options openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Carl Fletcher (caf4926) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: razor-qt provides a kde3 like experience. It is low on resources, has a familiar and friendly feel in use. It would be nice to see this along side the 'other' desktop options. Or at the very least, as a Pattern with a Meta package in Software Manager. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: It is low on resources, has a familiar and friendly feel in use. It will fill a large kde3 hungry user base -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314592

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[New: openFATE 316842] grub2 configuration in Yast2
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Feature added by: Ulf Michel (ulfmichel) Feature #316842, revision 1 Title: grub2 configuration in Yast2 openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Ulf Michel (ulfmichel) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: grub2 can in principle be configured to remember the last selected operating system, but this is no option in Yast2. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: I am convinced that this is the configuration most users would prefer. After every new installation I have to do this by hand editing /etc/default/grub with changing GRUB_DEFAULT=saved and adding GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=true and then updating grub by grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/316842

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[New: openFATE 316767] gfxboot-branding-openSUSE - Bring the penguins back
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Feature added by: Alan Bortu (alanbortu) Feature #316767, revision 1 Title: gfxboot-branding-openSUSE - Bring the penguins back openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Alan Bortu (alanbortu) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: After reading the thread on the opensuse help forums, I thought it would be a nice idea to propose bringing the penguins. What I mean by this is that sometimes, in grub on special dates the boot loader graphics will change at a random boot to one that features a bunch of penguins in wearing some Christmas hats and doing general penguin things. I know it might seem silly and worthless but I just thought it would be a nice thing to propose just for the sake of fun. If you still dont know what I am talking about please see the picture here: http://oi40.tinypic.com/2w1y23c.jpg Test Case: 1. Power on system 2. Wait for grub to display its boot options 3. Display the penuin graphic instead of the default graphic Use Case: When the user boots up their system the boot loader, on a random boot interval will display the graphic linked in the description instead of the default one that comes with openSUSE. It should be random during the month of December and after the 25th it should stop showing. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: I think its just a nice easter egg for the distro to have, I know that it serves no practical purpose but I do think it is important for distros to have fun little things like this that (hopefully) don't take too much work to maintain. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/316767

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[openFATE 308202] Speech recognition
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Feature added by: Daniel FAIVRE (geomaticien) Feature #308202, revision 1 Title: Speech recognition openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Daniel FAIVRE (geomaticien) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Linux and therefore OpenSuSE desktops still lacks speech recognition. Despite nearly everything else is better than under the dark side of Operating Systems ... Some progress were made in open source recognition engines and therefore progress in their desktop integration become a desired feature for a growing number of users. Such a feature requires a full desktop integration and the ability to recognize the dictation of a text in any text editor. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Speech recognition is integrated to windoz desktop since windoz fista, and that is a very cool feature and an accessibility important asset. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308202

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[New: openFATE 311011] Boot option "toram"
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Feature added by: Matti Vahalinna (Waxborg) Feature #311011, revision 1 Title: Boot option "toram" openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Matti Vahalinna (waxborg) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: I've long been amazed about the speed of DamnSmallLinux on a low spec machine when run completely in RAM. I've also seen that this is possible with Gentoo and Ubuntu nowadays. I would love to see this feature in openSUSE Live. This would greatly also improve the impression that new users get when they try out the Live system. So you boot from the Live media and give it an option 'toram' after which a RAM disk is created, the system is copied there and then it is run completely from there. -- Vahis -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311011

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[New: openFATE 310005] ask for root password once per-session
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Feature added by: Thiago Sayao (sayao) Feature #310005, revision 1 Title: ask for root password once per-session openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Thiago Sayao (sayao) Description: It would be nice to just ask for the root password once per-session. For security it would be valid only for the session for X minutes. When into the X minutes after the password is entered the request for authentication would just have the "Cancel" and "Continue" buttons, the password field would be hidden because the password would be still valid. When the X minutes expires, the system would as for the password again. Variations of this method are accepted, but it is annoying to have to enter the password a lot of times when configuring things or installing packages. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310005

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[New: openFATE 310346] java developer
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Feature added by: Federico P (ingchip) Feature #310346, revision 1 Title: java developer openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Federico P (ingchip) Description: Since opensolaris "died" I'm looking for a platform perfectly suitable for java development I'd need the last versions of netbeans , mysql + workbench , mercurial + android + open jdk + ORACLE JDK All of these components can be installed separately, but I'd like a distribution "one click developer" Possibly with self - update of the last issues . -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310346

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[New: openFATE 310945] extend chkconfig to dbus services
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Feature added by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Feature #310945, revision 1 Title: extend chkconfig to dbus services openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: chkconfig can be used to enable/disable init scripts and [x]inetd services. e.g. chkconfig vsftpd on -> disable xinetd config and turns on vsftpd init script chkconfig vsftpd xinetd -> turns off init script and enable xinetd config chkconfig vsftpd off -> turns off init script and/or xinetd config A similar mechanis could be used to manage dbus system services. Currently there is no way to turn off dbus system services. As soon a package drops a file in /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/ the service activates on demand. Also, some can be started either via init script or via system bus activation. Examples are avahi or hal. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310945

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[New: openFATE 319311] Let Zypper list updates during update process
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Feature added by: Philipp Bielefeldt (pbiel) Feature #319311, revision 1 Title: Let Zypper list updates during update process openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Philipp Bielefeldt (pbiel) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: One of the most common ways to install updates on openSUSE is to use the terminal command zypper up Which (if any) gives back a list of updates to be installed. I find this list pretty unhandy and ugly. The zypper lu command comes with a much nicer and more comprehensive list. I would like to see "zypper update" creating a similar (or the same) list before asking the user to accept the changes. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: It's mostly because it looks better. But also, it helps the user understand what will go on during an update, e.g. pointing to potential vendor changes (using the "dup" option) or updates to a version number not desired. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/319311

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[New: openFATE 314426] Links to rpm files via zypper
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Feature added by: Dmitriy Perlow (DarkSS) Feature #314426, revision 1 Title: Links to rpm files via zypper openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Dmitriy Perlow (darkss) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: It would be wonderful to have possibility to get list of links to rpm-packages as an option to zypper in and dup. Use Case: If you have pure internet connection at the machine with openSUSE but you have fast access somewhere else. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314426

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[New: openFATE 310764] Install with YaST as user
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Feature added by: Daniel Lee (erget) Feature #310764, revision 1 Title: Install with YaST as user openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Daniel Lee (erget) Description: For centrally managed systems it would be really cool to be able to install programs locally using the package manager. Currently it's possible to install programs as a normal user but only using the terminal and with several disadvantages - one major one is that you're stuck with basically a static snapshot of the systemwide installations from the point you begin installing on. If it were possible to use YaST to install programs as a user while still being connected to the systemwide RPM databank it would be a lot more user friendly and effective. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310764

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[New: openFATE 310265] "Present Windows" effect as mouse button shortcut
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Feature added by: Bo Thysell (cast_iron) Feature #310265, revision 1 Title: "Present Windows" effect as mouse button shortcut openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Bo Thysell (cast_iron) Description: I have a Logitech MX900 mouse with an unused button on the top. The button looks like two stacked rectangles, and would be perfect for calling the desktop effect "Present Windows". See this thread on the OpenSUSE forum: http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-help-here/applications/443348-presen… Image explaining what I mean is here: http://www.imagebam.com/image/9f204090841203 If this can't be done as a default setting, then maybe we could include an easy way to set mouse button shortcuts. Perhaps in the same shortcut section where we configure keyboard shortcuts? -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310265

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[New: openFATE 310442] New .desktop features
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Feature added by: Sławomir Lach (Lachu) Feature #310442, revision 1 Title: New .desktop features openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Sławomir Lach (lachu) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Desktop files should contains lots of information, helping for desktop software. First of enchancement should be connection with other desktop file. It means, that .desktop files should update status automatically, when used or displayed. Second would be autmatically removing broken desktop files. Test Case: Copy a .desktop files and do a lot of thing with parent file, like changing comment, changing command, etc. Also remove software related to this desktop file. Use Case: Peter is a Windows user. He is copy a lot of .desktop files from menus onto desktop. He is also removing a lot of software, when test it, from OpenSUSE, because on Windows platform he had never used software such like this. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: It will automatically removes some mess. I often categorize Wine applications, like game/strategy, etc. I simply copy file from one part of menu to another. I know, that I can use symlinks(probably), but don't know how, and normal user won't removes symlink after software is removed. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310442

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[openFATE 306989] More Help to new Users
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Feature added by: Ney walens de Mesquita (nwm) Feature #306989, revision 1 Title: More Help to new Users openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Ney walens de Mesquita (nwm) Description: OK, opensuse is very simple to use, i agree, but many users just don't understand how a linux system works... what's a package??... why i have to use a Package Manager??!! Where is my network configuration?? why this is so diferent from windows or Mac?? Ubuntu today is the larger linux distribution because some reasons... follow a list of some important features that we can learn from: 1 - Too many community support (ok, openSUSE has this one) 2 - LTS release cicle (this is for SLED and SLES, i know) 3 - Too many manuals, documentation and Help (openSUSE has this one too) 4 - Costumized version of yelp with manuals to commom tasks, like use tha package manager and install codecs (i think that is the point) I sugest that openSUSE can do some advances on item 4 and this can help new users to understand how openSUSE works. I think that yast can be more explained by module on yelp, but in a easy way for end users and not thecnical way. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306989

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[New: openFATE 310803] Compatybility p[ackage
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Feature added by: Sławomir Lach (Lachu) Feature #310803, revision 1 Title: Compatybility p[ackage openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Sławomir Lach (lachu) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: The idea is to avoid incompatybility without stop distribution changes. We can change everythink, what we need, and after few months releases compatybility package, which installs library & other compatybility layers to software distributed on internal media(or outside a repository). We can also provide someprogramname-compatybility. Also, OpenSUSE can detects program medium by CDs label, to automatycally installs some packages(library) needed by this program. Use Case: 1) We can drop some packages(like GTK+-2.0) without risk. We only create package called "compatybility layer" and user, who installs software outside any repository will install it. 2) If we dropped GTK+-2.0 and OpenSUSE have feature to install compatybility package automatically based on CDs label, then user will only inserts a CD of this program. 3) We dropped GTK+-2.0 . User have downloaded some package by internet. He can search compatybility package by programname-compatybility. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: We need this to avoid user frustration and do not block progress of OpenSUSE developing. It will works very similar to PlayOnLinux. If somebody have trouble with make program run on OpenSUSE and solves it, we only release special meta-package. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310803

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[New: openFATE 310234] Show total update size in Yast2 package manager
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Feature added by: Benjamin Misja (alvanx) Feature #310234, revision 1 Title: Show total update size in Yast2 package manager openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Benjamin Misja (alvanx) Description: Hi, It would be very useful if the installation summary feature of Yast2 package manager would include the overall size of all the files that you are about to download when you do an update. I've been missing a feature like this recently, and the provided information would be useful. Thanks! -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310234

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[openFate 305548] YaST-Qt: More informative "Installation Summary"
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Feature added by: Stephan Binner <stbinner(a)novell.com> Feature #305548, revision 1, last change by Title: YaST-Qt: More informative "Installation Summary" openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Stephan Binner <stbinner(a)novell.com> Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: The YaST Qt package manager should provide as much information in the "Installation Summary" view as zypper, esp the overall download size to expect and how much disk space will be freed/used after performing the operation. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305548

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[openFATE 306619] open firmware for some broadcom wifi cards
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Feature added by: Mariusz Fik (Fisiu) Feature #306619, revision 1 Title: open firmware for some broadcom wifi cards openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Mariusz Fik (fisiu) Description: It could be fine to ship openSUSE 11.2 with open firmware for broadcom wifi cards. Then, some cards will work out-of-box. For this chips currently unsupported we still have "install_bcm43xx_firmware". Known supported boards until now: 4306, 4311(rev1), 4318 and 4320 http://www.ing.unibs.it/openfwwf/ (http://www.ing.unibs.it/openfwwf/) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306619

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[New: openFATE 311805] Add Select All check box to Yast Package Manager
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Feature added by: Roman Bysh (Romanator) Feature #311805, revision 1 Title: Add Select All check box to Yast Package Manager openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Roman Bysh (romanator) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Many times a user would require all of the packages selected from a Pattern. However, the user can only select them one at a time. This is very time consuming. Adding a select all check box to the Yast Package Manager would speed up multiple package selection. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: To select all packages in a Pattern and speed ip the package selection process. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311805

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[New: openFATE 318234] Update "gos-wallpapers" to 2014
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Feature added by: Neil Rickert (nrickert) Feature #318234, revision 1 Title: Update "gos-wallpapers" to 2014 openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Neil Rickert (nrickert) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: The "gos-wallpapers" (good old suse wallpapers) seems to be stuck at 2010. There have been several good default wallpapers since then that some people might like to be able to select. How about updating the package by adding the missing default wallpapers. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/318234

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[New: openFATE 312258] Ubuntu style encrypted home directories
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Feature added by: David Nielsen (DavidNielsen) Feature #312258, revision 1 Title: Ubuntu style encrypted home directories openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: David Nielsen (davidnielsen) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Ubuntu has a very neat and useful implementation of encryption for users. Using ecryptfs they allow for each user to have his/her data encrypted without requiring one master password being entered at boot time. It is unloed along with your regular login making it entirely seamless. It would be nice to see similar functionality easily available when creating users in openSUSE. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312258

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[openFATE 307471] more scrollback on text console
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Feature added by: Ralph Ulrich (ulenrich) Feature #307471, revision 1 Title: more scrollback on text console openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Ralph Ulrich (ulenrich) Description: double scrollback in kernel config, now has: CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK_SIZE=64 (or you will never see "zypper -vv dup" output while maintaining your system.) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307471

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[New: openFATE 320237] Installation over WiFi should scan for available ESSID
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Feature added by: Silviu Marin-Caea (silviumc) Feature #320237, revision 1 Title: Installation over WiFi should scan for available ESSID Requested by: Silviu Marin-Caea (silviumc) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: When installing TW over WiFi, the system asks the user to enter the ESSID manually. That is unixy, like in the seventies. Nowadays, people expect easy, they expect the system to scan the available networks and present a list to the user to pick from. This is the common way of operating, on every modern system. I've never had to input the ESSID manually anywhere else, except recently, when installing TW. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/320237

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[New: openFATE 312911] Add option of UDF format to Yast partition manager
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Feature added by: Ilya Chernykh (Ansus) Feature #312911, revision 1 Title: Add option of UDF format to Yast partition manager openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Ilya Chernykh (ansus) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: UDF is an universal disk format file system, which can be used on optical rewritable and non-rewritable media, USB flash drives and hard drives. The file system is supported by all modern operating systems, including Windows, BSD, MacOS X, Solaris, OS/2|eComStation, BeOS|Haiku as well as Linux kernel, making it one of the best choices to use when transferring data between platforms. Despite this Yast2 partition manager does not suggest option to format a volume into UDF, thus forcing to use a makeudffs command line tool. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312911

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[New: openFATE 316721] One-Click Upgrade
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Feature added by: Anomyous Anomyous (jcat123) Feature #316721, revision 1 Title: One-Click Upgrade openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Anomyous Anomyous (jcat123) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: It would involve either pressing a button in the YaST software management or on the openSUSE web site that would initiate the upgrade process and use a clean GUI interface to gather information about the upgrade and perform it. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: In many distros, you can just hit a few buttons in a graphic UI and upgrade to the next version. In openSUSE, you either have to use the DVD or manually change the repos and use zypper. Having a one click upgrade would be simpler and easier for most people, and would be more elegant and attract more users. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/316721

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[New: openFATE 314544] Easier to read boot messages
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Feature added by: Bo Thysell (cast_iron) Feature #314544, revision 1 Title: Easier to read boot messages openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Bo Thysell (cast_iron) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Hi! Currently when the computer is booting up it looks like this (if you click away the splash screen): Started LSB: Set up on-boot profile [[1;32m OK [0m] Started LSB: read [[1;32m OK [0m] Started LSB: check quotas and turn quota [[1;32m OK [0m] As you can see the information about whether the service failed or is ok is on the far right side of the screen where it is quite difficult to match to the correct line. (In reality it's even further away since I compressed the example to save some space...) My proposal is as follows: put the info on the left side, just next to the line like this: [[1;32m OK [0m] Started LSB: Set up on-boot profile [[1;32m OK [0m] Started LSB: read [[1;32m OK [0m] Started LSB: check quotas and turn quota etc... As I am using a 24" 1920x1200 resolution monitor this would make it a lot easier to read. Any thoughts on this? -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314544

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[New: openFATE 310709] Dazuko
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Feature added by: John Shand (jshand2008) Feature #310709, revision 1 Title: Dazuko openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: John Shand (jshand2008) Description: Dazuko has been a long time feature of this operating system and it is no longer found. Please return this feature as it is very helpful to catch viruses in action. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310709

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[New: openFATE 310291] only onde leval on kde submenus
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Feature added by: cochise césar (cochisecesar) Feature #310291, revision 1 Title: only onde leval on kde submenus openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: cochise césar (cochisecesar) Description: KDE menus are shorted by app type and app subtype. I need 3 clicks for lauch anyone. The subtype is nice, but the adictional click not. A solution is put subtypes and apps in same leval using a tree view. maybe with autoexpand on mouse hover, but by default expanded. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310291

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[openFATE 307488] Simplify Menus (More like Debian/Ubuntu)
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Feature added by: Jason Fergus (jfergus) Feature #307488, revision 1 Title: Simplify Menus (More like Debian/Ubuntu) openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Jason Fergus (jfergus) Description: I am always shocked at how sloppy the menus are in not only openSUSE, but Mandriva, etc. Most of them have the structure of Applications -> Internet -> Browsers -> Firefox If there is ONE entry under browswers, why have a sub menu? That's one more bit of waiting you have to do for the sub menu to open. Debian and Ubuntu both have it set up as Applications -> Internet -> Firefox. Makes far more sense that way. Now what would be nice is a programmatical way to have the menus create a sub menu if (and only if) the full menu starts to get too full, or there are at least 5 of an application 'type'. This obviously would require some things beyond just the distributions though, and instead would require some alterations to the freedesktop spec for creating menu entries. I do feel that this would help with some major frustrations of users who are thinking of switching. I seriously would have stayed with using openSUSE except for this issue (and the billion different repositories that are out there.) Please FIX THE MENUS! -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307488

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[openFATE 306282] Restricted Guest Account
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Feature added by: Stephan Binner (Beineri) Feature #306282, revision 1, last change by Title: Restricted Guest Account openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Stephan Binner (beineri) Description: openSUSE should support a "Guest" account with a temporary home directory and restricted permissions (via AppArmor, like not being able to start application with console privileges, look into home directories as "other" user etc.). An authenticated user has to enable/start this user account. This could be either implemented with a by default existing but inactivated user account (like Windows) or temporary created user account via login manager/session switch applet (like Ubuntu, https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/gdm-guest-login) Use Case: Allow to lend your laptop to someone else for quick email check, surfing or playing music at a party. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306282

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[New: openFATE 310944] openSUSE 11.4 Manuals
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Feature added by: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) Feature #310944, revision 1 Title: openSUSE 11.4 Manuals openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: We need for openSUSE 11.4 a review and update of the startup guidee and of other manuals. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310944

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[New: openFATE 308373] Packman Automatic Setup
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Feature added by: Zachary Klein (zak89) Feature #308373, revision 1 Title: Packman Automatic Setup openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Zachary Klein (zak89) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Automate the enablement of the Packman repository (and installation common codecs) as part of the first system update (similar to "pullin-msfonts"), either by using a "pullin" pseudo-package or by simpling auto-enabling the repo in Yast. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: It appears that openSUSE's "multimedia experience" is very dependant on the third-party Packman repository. While it's great that we have excellent repository management, and enabling third party repos is a breeze, I think it is still less than obvious to new users; even those with prior Linux experience but who are new to openSUSE. Not being able to play your music or video collections is a pretty glaring deficiency for a new user. My suggestion is reasonably simple (I think). Since adding the Packman repo and installing common codecs is the first thing most desktop users will want to do (or need to do but not know it), why not add it as part of the first system update (similar to the "pullin flash player/msfonts" packages).Either have the system "install" a package that adds the repo for the user (and pulls in common codecs), or have Yast enable the repo itself (it's already got the url information, as you can see in the "Community Repositories" dialog). I don't know what legal issues the last option might cause, but the first one (installing a "pseudo package") is already being used for the flash player and msfonts; couldn't we do something similar? The user could always opt out of it by unchecking the "pullin-packman" patch when updateing. If this feature could be added, then the first system update the user performs (and most users I think will not be put off by the idea of an OS update) will take care one of the biggest newbie complaints about Linux ("I can't play my mp3s!"). I don't know what hurdles this may pose, but it seems relatively straightforward to me. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308373

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[New: openFATE 309359] Software management idea:Missing drivers/firmware feature
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Feature added by: ryan smith (ryan1414) Feature #309359, revision 1 Title: Software management idea:Missing drivers/firmware feature openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: ryan smith (ryan1414) Description: I have a feature request for OpenSUSE 11.3. In Yast's Software management, there should be a "missing drivers/firmware" section where once a user clicks on there it will scan a PC's hardware that doesn't have a driver/firmware, then it will display the missing drivers/firmware that users can download. This will save alot of time for beginners who don't even know what drivers/firmware they need for their wifi card, printer, etc. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309359

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[New: openFATE 310830] Pinta project added
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Feature added by: Jared Meidal (kahu) Feature #310830, revision 1 Title: Pinta project added openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Jared Meidal (kahu) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: The mono-based graphics editor ought to be integrated with next OpenSUSE release: http://pinta-project.com/ Ubuntu has dropped GIMP integration, which is not what I'm looking for, but simply support for an additional project that fits a beginning-intermediate graphic editor user base. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Pinta offers an easy and accessible interface for beginners and tools for intermediate graphic editing. The fact that this is an attractive and usable application contrasts with GIMP which has its place but can make novices feel lost and unsure of where to start. I suggest the OpenSUSE community get behind this project, develop rpm builds and add it into their 11.4 repositories! We need more attractive, sleek interfaces which are highly functional and provide the tools for our audience-- I think we're missing out if we skip this one. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310830

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[New: openFATE 314710] Replace Kmix with Veromix as the pulse mixer.
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 21 Jun '17

21 Jun '17

Feature added by: Gavin S (gav616) Feature #314710, revision 1 Title: Replace Kmix with Veromix as the pulse mixer. openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Gavin S (gav616) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Veromix is more feature rich then kmix and easier to use. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314710

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[New: openFATE 310175] Zypper / YAST should cache partially downloaded packages
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 21 Jun '17

21 Jun '17

Feature added by: Ankleface Wroughtlandmire (bummmm) Feature #310175, revision 1 Title: Zypper / YAST should cache partially downloaded packages openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Ankleface Wroughtlandmire (bummmm) Description: Hello, I have a flaky internet connection. So it's important for me to be able to resume partially downloaded files. I would like the YAST software manager and Zypper to resume downloads of packages where I left off in case of any error. Thanks! -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310175

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[New: openFATE 318085] Yast2 Bad Connection Download Improvement
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 21 Jun '17

21 Jun '17

Feature added by: John Banister (jbanister) Feature #318085, revision 1 Title: Yast2 Bad Connection Download Improvement openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: John Banister (jbanister) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: As I type this, my other computer has been attempting to perform a software update. The patch download will get to some random percentage, usually between 70 and 85, freeze, and restart. This happens over and over. As my poor 3G data connection is metered, this is both frustrating and expensive. I assume the freezing happens because either my computer or the server didn't hear the other, and both are waiting for the other to speak. I have a couple suggestions. One suggestion is to have Yast count the number of attempts at the current download and if the count is more than two, switch into a "bad connection mode." Another suggestion is that in "bad connection mode," route the download attempt through the Opera Turbo servers. They seem to be good at talking to computers that have a bad connection. Another suggestion is, in "bad connection mode" give the download protocol extra consideration that, the reason there's been no data coming in for a while is that your request to continue (or confirmation of data received) didn't make it back to the server, and repeat the request. When the transfer starts over just fine, something is happening correctly that ought to also happen in the middle of the transfer to correct the situation when it freezes. Another suggestion is that when a download freezes in "bad connection mode" (or when the file size is greater than 20 MB), in addition to "retry," provide a "resume" option that performs a check to see that the file being downloaded hasn't been updated, and if not, then (unless it's very small) resumes where it left off instead of starting over. The Firefox plugin, DownThemAll, is good at this, and it's open source, so you could copy what they do. A final suggestion is when there's an Abort in "bad connection mode" to give an option for Yast to keep the downloaded material and the list of material to download for a while, against the possibility of another installation attempt. That way stuff that was downloaded before the user ran out of time or otherwise gave up doesn't have to be re-downloaded later on. I know, "Keep Downloaded Packages" is a solution to this, but this would be "Keep Downloaded Packages that didn't install yet." Ok, thanks for taking the time to read and consider these words. They've been repeating in my mind for a few months, so I thought I might express them. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: We want this to show kindness to people with poor, slow data connections and also to give an impression of improved reliability, which gives people a good feeling about the product. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/318085

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[New: openFATE 310804] Include Unity as alternative GNOME GUI
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 21 Jun '17

21 Jun '17

Feature added by: Markus K (KAMiKAZOW) Feature #310804, revision 1 Title: Include Unity as alternative GNOME GUI openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Markus K (kamikazow) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Canonical introduced "Unity" with Ubuntu 10.10 as netbook GUI and plans to extend it for desktop use. As Unity is FOSS (GPLv3), Unity can be made available as alternative GUI. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Users may want to try different user experiences. Offering Unity as option would be beneficial. Its dependencies are probably all already packaged anyway. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310804

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[New: openFATE 314943] UTC clock KDE
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 21 Jun '17

21 Jun '17

Feature added by: Mike Corbin (mike021361) Feature #314943, revision 1 Title: UTC clock KDE openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Mike Corbin (mike021361) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: The UTC popup on the KDE desktop clock says silly things such as 2:02 AM UTC or 10:45 PM UTC. UTC is a 24 hour format so one would expect 02:02 UTC or 22:45 UTC. openSUSE 12.3 via zypper dup. Thank you. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314943

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[New: openFATE 320342] Add btrfs subvolume options to autoyast
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 20 Jun '17

20 Jun '17

Feature added by: Matthias Eckermann (mge1512) Feature #320342, revision 1 Title: Add btrfs subvolume options to autoyast Requested by: Matthias Eckermann (mge1512) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Currently you can't specify btrfs subvolume options is a autoYaST control file. E.g. the standard install of Leap 42.1 creates four subvolumes with option "no copy on write": @/var/lib/libvirt/images @/var/lib/mariadb @/var/lib/mysql @/var/lib/pgsql There ought to be a way to achieve this with autoYaST. Currently subvolumes are specified as: <subvolumes config:type="list"> <listentry>boot/grub2/i386-pc</listentry> <listentry>boot/grub2/x86_64-efi</listentry> <listentry>home</listentry> </subvolumes> a possibly syntax could be e.g.: <subvolumes config:type="list"> <subvolume> <subvolume-path>var/lib/pgsql</subvolume-path> <subvolume-options>nodatacow,noacl</subvolume-options> </subvolume> </subvolumes> or make the subvolume-options a list.. Also the installer should respect these options and autoyast should use them when creating a reference profile. Relations: - Add btrfs subvolume options to autoyast (feature/copiedfrom: 319895) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/320342

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[New: openFATE 321838] Support TRIM/discard mode when installing to SSD
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 13 Jun '17

13 Jun '17

Feature added by: Peter Simons (psimons) Feature #321838, revision 1 Title: Support TRIM/discard mode when installing to SSD openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Peter Simons (psimons) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: While installing Tumbleweed (and Leap 42.2) with an encrypted disk, there is no way to enable TRIM/discard mode the for the underlying SSD. I *can* specify the "discard" mount option in the expert partitioner mode, but I cannot add the necessary "--allow-discards" option to the call to "cryptsetup" anywhere. Only *after* booting the newly installed system it's possible to enable that feature, and even then I have to manually edit /etc/crypttab to do it. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: TRIM mode allows modern SSDs to operate faster than they can without it. There are security implications when combined with LUKS encryption, but having that ability as an optional feature sure is desirable (and many other distributions support it, too). -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/321838

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[openFATE 308163] Add mc (midnight commander) to selected packages by default during installation
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 13 Jun '17

13 Jun '17

Feature added by: Yuri Baranow (ybaranow) Feature #308163, revision 1 Title: Add mc (midnight commander) to selected packages by default during installation openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Yuri Baranow (ybaranow) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: During installation, after selecting desktop type (gnome or kde) by defaultthe packageMC (Midnight Commander) is always turned off. Add MC package to be selected for installation by default. Thank you. Use Case: Every installation from any media Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: From year to year, from version to version when I install suse, after selecting desktop type (gnome or kde) I always MUST go into detailed package selection to turn on MC (Midnight Commander) to be installed also. This become very anoying for me. :-( Oh, Please... Add MC package to be selected for installation. Thank you. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308163

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