June 2017 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[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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[New: openFATE 323567] Include pdfgrep in openSUSE
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 07 Jul '17

07 Jul '17

Feature added by: Jean Delvare (jdelvare) Feature #323567, revision 1 Title: Include pdfgrep in openSUSE Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Jean Delvare (jdelvare) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Could pdfgrep from OBS project Publishing be included in openSUSE? I find it very convenient, this is one of the packages I always end up reinstalling manually within a few weeks after reinstalling my system. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/323567

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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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