April 2006 - openSUSE Wiki - openSUSE Mailing Lists

http://en.opensuse.org/Index.php/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories
by houghi 20 Apr '06

20 Apr '06

In the Realease Notes for 10.0 there is a link to http://en.opensuse.org/Index.php/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories How can this be corrected to point to http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories ? houghi -- Nutze die Zeit. Sie ist das Kostbarste, was wir haben, denn es ist unwiederbringliche Lebenszeit. Leben ist aber mehr als Werk und Arbeit, und das Sein wichtiger als das Tun - Johannes Müller-Elmau

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wiki graphic design project
by Rajko M 20 Apr '06

20 Apr '06

The front page redesign, or better to say design, should be one of tasks for the site design project. Why design, because now we have Download page as front page. Download link should be prominent, but not a portion of what is now. Report a Bug link should be present in all related sections, like Developer, User, Problems, but never on the front page. The graphic design can't be done without clear ideas what are top categories that we want to present to opensuse.org visitors. Here is illustration how simple can be the front page design: http://en.opensuse.org/List_of_Proposal_Pages/Graphic001 It was generated during experiments with GIMP. Background graphic is too dark, and jumps out of openSUSE graphic concept, but gives one idea what I mean under simplification. Next will be more in style with the rest of opensuse.org, and make use of image links introduced by Pflodo. Words Wiki, Users, Developers, openSUSE are used without much thoughts and can be accompanied with few more, or replaced with completely different set. The idea is to identify anonymous visitors of the front page and better adjust second level indexes to talk to specific audience. For instance, word "Problem?" can link to help, pages and unlike "Support" majority of visitors will understand what that means and can't be confused with paid support for retail versions. Word "Users" will talk about basics and projects that are related to use of openSUSE. -- Regards, Rajko.

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Japanese Wiki?
by noniko 19 Apr '06

19 Apr '06

Hello, congratulations for Czech, Italian , Swedish and Turkish Wiki. But why not yet Japanese Wiki? We have prepared all pages required. noniko, JA translatio team noniko(a)netbeans.jp

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Bug in Wiki for Pictures...
by Anniyka Wandersmann 16 Apr '06

16 Apr '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello there. I wanted to resize some Pictures to 22px but it didn't worked regardless what I was trying. So At least I looked at other Pages on the Wiki from Novell but all images where also the same size as in wiki-code: For example: You can see here at http://de.opensuse.org/index.php?title=Dokumentation&action=edit that there is the following code: [[Image:Novell.png|15px]] The produced HTML-code is this: <img src="http://files.opensuse.org/opensuse/den/9/0f/Novell.png" alt="" width="15" height="17" ....> If you have a look at the properties of the picture, than you will find, that this is the adress and also it's size. OK, no see here: http://de.opensuse.org/Bild:Fragezeichen.png Look at the properties of the picture. Click on "Vorlage:F"... And you will see no picture. The Wiki-Code is: [[Bild:Fragezeichen.png|22px]] The HTML Code is: <img src="http://files.opensuse/de/thumb/4/4f/Fragezeichen.png/22px-Fragezeichen.png" .... Well you see, it is not what would be expected... The HTML-code is the same with "Image" instead of "Bild" As far as I could see, there was another request on this list for broken PNGs in the galery ... Greetings, anniyka -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEQmqj0UZdMosWNssRArKJAKDa2Fd1CnqWge5NNfDgXKQVjo1B+QCfYasf sYCTtlFZr8xN5xasKNVVGBg= =sFvq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Yast namespace
by jdd 15 Apr '06

15 Apr '06

Installing and testing the new 10.1, I notice once again that Yast is powerfull but not as well documented as it should (not documented at all in some parts). What do you think of creating a new "Yast" namespace in the wiki (pages beginning with [[Yast:...]] with the following content: *a screen copy of the ncurse screen and one of the graphic screen * a short definition of each and any option (for example using the ;name: tags) * a head with the scope of the screen * a tail with an en-deep explanation or better links to such explanation. Of course I don't mind to make this for all the Yast screen, only the most obscure ones jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos

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home page relooking
by jdd 13 Apr '06

13 Apr '06

It should be time to speak about this anew, for all the ones not directly involved to 10.1 it would be nice if the new layout could be on line at the same time as 10.1, if ever possible at all. I see for now two important things: *we need a single home page to be set in the advertisements/signatures... I couldn't find the project already shown here (wikipedia like), but I liked it much may be a contest could be done (win a tee shirt :-) to find the best artwork (I'm sure not to win this :-) *we need a much simpler left column sidebar. Home (always on top, this one :-) Use SUSE Linux Download Documentation (including SDB, FAQ) Participate Community (including how to participate, communicate, projects, team, tasks) Report a bug About openSUSE News (including roadmap & events) Project overview Contacts Legal on the center panel, download be "Download the installable demo dvd" and should send directly to the stable release dvd mirror. In fact my choice should be a single _cd_ demo (SLICK?). A demo needs to be fast... bug report should be avoided. SUSE have NO bug isn't it :-) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos

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Communicate
by Henne Vogelsang 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

Hi, i just put my reworked communicate page[1] live. The old one[2] was a mess. Can the language maintainers please update the communicate pages in their wiki? And please keep it language clean. There is no use of a turkish forum mentioned on a spanish communicate page.... Henne [1] http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate [2] http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate-old -- Henne Vogelsang, Core Services "Rules change. The Game remains the same." - Omar (The Wire)

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Interwiki link errors in en.opensuse.org
by Marco Stella 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

I noticed that interwiki link to Italian wiki have been added on the left sidebar in the home page. But this one and the others are pointing to xx.openuse.org/.... The 's' is missing. Could you correct the mistake, please? Thanks, Marco Stella

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http://en.opensuse.org/Events dates
by houghi 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

The http://en.opensuse.org/Events can be confusing. Especially for people not from the EU. Is it not better to write out the month (at least in 3 letters) making it one of the following: 2006 Apr 10 10 Apr 2006 2006 10 Apr Apr 10, 2006 Or even make a chapter 2006 and just do Apr 10 or 10 Apr or the write it in full April 10th Yes, I understand the used dates are correct to international standard, yet people can and will become confused. If I see a date that says 4-12, I think December. When I see 2006-09-05 I think May. Am I wrong in that? Yes. The page is I hope not about right or wrong, but about getting people to those events, even if they see it wrong. houghi -- Nutze die Zeit. Sie ist das Kostbarste, was wir haben, denn es ist unwiederbringliche Lebenszeit. Leben ist aber mehr als Werk und Arbeit, und das Sein wichtiger als das Tun - Johannes Müller-Elmau

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wikibots (or alike)
by jdd 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

I was said on IRC than wikibots are prone to spam I don't really understand why -do the actual Novell login prevent this?- but anyway we need badly an interwiki link automatic process. I understood there are local scripts? but I understand also there will be a relooking, is this related (or is this relooking already in use and I didn't notice? could this be announced on this list? thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos

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