April 2008 - YaST Development - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[yast-devel] yast style guide
by Martin Schmidkunz 11 Apr '08

11 Apr '08

Hi everybody, after some discussion and work I would like to present a first draft of a YaST style guide to you: http://en.opensuse.org/Image:Ysg.pdf The intention of the style guide is NOT to dictate every pixel in every module but to make some basic actions and behaviors consistent which increases usability. The work was mostly done by Lukas (locilka) and me. Nonetheless this is just a draft and I would like to see it as a base for further discussion. First of all because two people cannot represent the large variety of opinions you all have and what all of you consider as acceptable. A style guide which is not supported by you, the developers, is IMHO useless (and we already have one useless style guide :-)) So: * Do you think the extent of the current draft is sufficient? * Which issues are missing? * Which ones should be removed? * Are there any contentwise issues you object/agree upon? I am looking forward to you comments! Cu, Martin -- Martin Schmidkunz User Experience Specialist martin.schmidkunz(a)novell.com +49 (0) 911 740 53-346 ----------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Novell, Inc. SUSE® Linux Enterprise 10 Your Linux is ready http://www.novell.com/linux -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help(a)opensuse.org

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[yast-devel] SWIG bindings for libyui available: YCP-free YaST dialogs !
by Klaus Kaempf 11 Apr '08

11 Apr '08

Things you do with some spare time in the evening ... ;-) Hi, I just imported 'libyui-bindings' into the YaST svn repository, providing SWIG bindings (well, just Ruby for now) for libyui. For the curious: svn co http://svn.opensuse.org/svn/yast/trunk/libyui-bindings cd libyui-bindings mkdir build cd build cmake .. make cd ../swig/ruby/examples ruby hello_world.rb Enjoy ! Now back to sat-solver and libzypp ... Klaus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help(a)opensuse.org

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[yast-devel] new PoolItem/ResObject call isRelevant()
by Stefan Schubert 10 Apr '08

10 Apr '08

Hi, this is interesting for all UIs concerning package handling. This call gives an answer to "Is this PoolItem/ResObject interesting for user and should it be shown ?" /** Returns true if the solvable is relevant which means e.G. for patches * that at least one package of the patch is installed. */ bool isRelevant() const; Greetings Stefan -- ******************************************************************************* Stefan Schubert SUSE LINUX GmbH - Maxfeldstrasse 5 - D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany e-mail: schubi(a)suse.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help(a)opensuse.org

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[yast-devel] YaST2 meeting Prague - 8.4.2008
by Michal Zugec 10 Apr '08

10 Apr '08

Czech YaST2 team (Prague) meeting 2008-04-08 ======================================= Present: jkupec, jreidinger, jsrain, juhliarik, jsuchome, locilka, lslezak, mvidner, mzugec Absent: kmachalkova (exchange) Minutes: mzugec Next minutes: jsrain libzypp --------- jkupec and jreidinger are working on pool query in libzypp (pool query API and locks, unlocking) Product Creator -------------------- Full repository URL (=including password for https) has to be saved into kiwi configuration file (bnc#376666). Timezone & NTP ----------------------- Timezone module now distinguishes between one-time synchronization and saving the NTP client configuration (FaTE#302917) SuSEFirewall2 -------------------- There are special rules from bridged devices (mostly used for network in virtualized environment). sshd_config SCR agent -------------------------------- Two agents were merged into one because of unification. InstExtensionImage --------------------------- This YCP module newly uses the `extend` command which can update a running inst-sys with an RPM content. Control center ------------------- inst_sources desktop file was removed because that functionality is already in packager. From the same reason was removed desktop files for route and dns. Heartbeat -------------- CLI Command line mode support is being implemented. Sysconfig ------------- Fixed problem with writing "" string in CLI. IOgrind, valgrid -------------------- iogrind is Michael Meeks' I/O profiler and visualizer. Mvidner has packaged it as Buildservice project: http://mvidner.blogspot.com/2008/04/iogrind-in-opensuse-build-service.html Log compression ------------------------ The y2logs in /var/log/YaST2 can be very large (20-30MB), but they compress very well. Now they're compressed with gzip (FaTE#300637) Devtools ------------ There is possibility to run make check without a prior make install (FaTE#2306). Added a -M and -I switch to y2base for specifying additional module and include pathes. (The switches are taken from ycpc , different means like passing colon-separated directories via an environment variable are also feasible.) Network ----------- New features: - support for default gateway metrics (FaTE#301948) (http://mzugec.blogspot.com/2008/04/yast2-network-metric.html) - option in UI for dhcpcd "-G" - don't touch default route (bnc#366948) Printer --------- - LPD protocol switching support (bnc#120086) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help(a)opensuse.org

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[yast-devel] new builtin sublist
by Arvin Schnell 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

Hi, I have added a new builtin to YCP (yast2-core 2.16.46) called sublist. More or less like substring. ciao Arvin -- Arvin Schnell, <aschnell(a)suse.de> Software Engineer, Research & Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help(a)opensuse.org

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[yast-devel] Product plans
by Benji Weber 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

Greetings All, Currently in factory Product::name, Product::distversion etc all return an empty string. Probably because there is no product installed. Is it planned to have products installed once zypp supports them again, or will Product.ycp obtain its data from somewhere else? Or is Product.ycp being dropped completely and I should use something else? At present I am using Product to determine which instructions from a YMP match the installed system. Should I compare against something else, like /etc/SuSE-release? https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=373367 was my report for no product installed. -- Benjamin Weber -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help(a)opensuse.org

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[yast-devel] YaST and kexec
by Arvin Schnell 07 Apr '08

07 Apr '08

Hi, normally I don't criticise other peoples code but I just saw the kexec code in YaST. Just a call "kexec -e"! The current program and kernel is gone: No umount, no sync, no SCR flush, no start-script cleanup, no halt according to AutoYaST, no nothing. Use the method that has been there for years: Tell linuxrc what to do. Look at yast_inf_finish.ycp. I already pointed there last week on IRC. ciao Arvin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help(a)opensuse.org

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[yast-devel] YaST2-sound rebuild
by Dean Hilkewich 07 Apr '08

07 Apr '08

Is it possible to make the src.rpm package for the YaST2-sound generate a new list of supported cards from the alsa modules that are present on the system? I see the script that is supposed to do that in yast2-sound-2.16.4/data/src but it doesn't get triggered when doing a rpmbuild --rebuild. This way adding new soundcard support in the YaST module would be easier if the card is supported by a newer kernel or alsa update. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help(a)opensuse.org

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[yast-devel] YCP and Float
by Arvin Schnell 07 Apr '08

07 Apr '08

Hi Protectors Of YCP, which is the easiest way to display a float with 3 digits after the decimal point and rounding to zero? ciao Arvin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help(a)opensuse.org

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[yast-devel] Small usability comment on YaST2 installer
by Dominique Leuenberger 07 Apr '08

07 Apr '08

Hi, Last weekend I gave a openSUSE 11.0 Alpha3 disk to a friend and made him install openSUSE... I tried to follow a bit what he did and where issues were. The biggest thing I've seen that he was to much attracted by the green next button, even though the system was busy and next not available (like on first screen, when system is initializing.. the next button is green and as there is nothing else, it's very attractive to click it... ). Otherwise he was not that much worried by the installation... except: the first user he wanted to create, as a typical windows user, he wanted to name it Admin... ;) but even that's a valid user... The partition proposal was a bit weird... he had a 40GB disk, 20GB filled with windows.. openSUSE suggested to delete windows and use the whole disk... of course *I* would agree to this.. he was not really pleased. Dominique -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help(a)opensuse.org

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