On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 9:14 AM Gerald Pfeifer
Hi Neal,
I'm a bit worried we've got this discussion on project@, but things aren't actually moving much as far as the distro goes.
On Thu 2021-01-07, Neal Gompa wrote:
Yes. YaST looks pretty terrible on HiDPI screens (2K and higher).
I'll see that I can push this a bit; just reached out to colleage on the project management front to hopefully sponsor a bit of effort. We really need to improve here.
That's awesome. I think this is more of a function of HiDPI screens not being common for Linux developers. Once people have them, it's a lot easier to account for.
- setup of WIFI during installation 'is really old school' as one has to jump between different tabs to set it up. And, finally, the WIFI setting is not taken over to the installed system, so one has to enter it again (and he hit a known Plasma-bug by this https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=389052 )
That one's moving at last; not super speedily, but moving.
yast2-network needs to learn how to configure NetworkManager for this to be fixed.
There are two strategies for doing this:
As not to forget this, can you file this as a Jira ticket or bug? (You got Jiri access as a test user, IIRC? Now might be a good time to file this.)
You're right, I forgot about that. I'll file an issue in the SUSE JIRA right away.
-> can we improve the detection of hardware to recommend the right proprietary driver? I cant comment on how other distros do it, but it looks like this was easier. In Fedora, we have this set up with modalias() Provides and AppStream data with modaliases for the NVIDIA driver. This allows GNOME Software and Plasma Discover to suggest the correct driver for the hardware. Fedora Workstation has this workflow through GNOME Software for enabling and installing the driver.
Isn't openSUSE doing something similar? At least for a sound driver my new system needed I was told it should work that way (now - after my bug report which got the ID added for the existing driver). ;-)
I am unsure. I don't have any examples where I see this happening myself, so I don't know for sure if it does or does not exist. It seems reasonable to expect it to exist in openSUSE as well. I'm pretty sure the concept originated from SUSE Linux back in the day anyway... -- 真実はいつも一つ!/ Always, there's only one truth!