Talk:Package Wishlist

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Bugzilla?

Are there requests in the Novell Bugzilla associated with each package request? It would be helpful to add their numbers in the future if an enhancement request exists; that is where I expect discussion would take place. CustardFD

Voting

It would be great if users could vote for packages that they wish to be added to OpenSUSE. (I would vote for TeXLive.)

Cedega or Wine

The biggest reason to bring this up is to be able to play games. I know a lot of people want to move to linux but don't because of gameing. I understand we can't get cedega, but would it be possible to include a more refined and specialized version of wine to make it easier to install and run games? Thoughts?

This page is more about including packages that have already been created, not on creating entirely new ones or forks. Nevertheless, redoing wine to make it compatible with significantly more games would require alot of development time, time which should be spent on creating a balanced distro. mikedep333

Upstream WINE is constantly improving, even for Games. Novell/SUSE cannot spend much effort on this, but we package always the newest version for our products and I package the SUSE RPMs for download from http://winehq.org/ -Msmeissn

Users would appreciate having the latest available version on the new version of SuSE; I was particularly frustrated by having to download wine and then having 10.0's SuSEwatcher/YaST get upset when "my" 0.9.5 or whatever was "older" than the "2005xxyyy" version that shipped with 10.0. This meant deleting "my" version, re-installing 10.0's long enough to make SuSEwatcher decide everything else was up to date, then re-installing the latest. Seeing Beta6 come out with a version that was 2 or 3 behind winehq's was a bit unsettling and doesn't make (open)SuSE look very up-to-date.

HPLIP

I know that hplip is already in 9.3 but it doesn't work as it should. So compiling from source is the only way to have this driver working good. (Bugreport?)

It is important that we squeeze in the latest version (0.9.8 patch 4 or later) into 10.1 to ensure that we can support the latest hardware. It's very frustrating (and daunting) to have to scurry around to Sourceforge and/or elsewhere to gather up the latest bits so as to support a printer that's been on the market for months. Similarly, an effort needs to be planned into the schedule to sweep in the latest PPDs from HP and the other vendors before 10.1 is frozen. HP is working hard to get this stuff working; it shouldn't be a major task for us to build it and throw it into an RPM.

MPlayer

"We would need to cripple it beyond usefulness due to patent problems. So it is better just not to ship it.".Does it really so big problem with MPlayer that it can't be included in SUSE? I know that in USA you can't add codecs to distibution but i thought that movie player could be included and users could simply download all needed codecs later.

-- MPlayer does not have a plugin framework like Xine, so this is not really doable. adrian

Nagios

moved to

Scilab

"As far as I remember, this package is already included in the original SuSE distribution, therefore also in the OpenSuSE."

Fluxbox

Perhabs too many window manager are a waste of space, but Fluxbox is one of the nicest alternatives for older Computers. I found various selfbuild packages, but none were official.

Project X

This is an open (mpeg) videoediting (demux, repair, cut etc.) (java) tool i heavily depend on for my video and dvd-authoring stuff. I'd love to have it included to openSUSE..
see http://www.lucike.info/page_projectx.htm

GNOME with GNOME icons, instead of KDE icons

Hi there! First of all, I would like to thank you all for the OpenSUSE project. That is the best thing you could possibly do. I don't have special package wish list because SUSE is shipped with balanced set of software. But, there is one thing that irritates me a lot: GNOME with KDE icons. Personally, I prefer GNOME, and I don't have nothing against KDE. The only thing I don't like with KDE are icons. I don't like'em at all, and I wouldn't't like to watch'em in the GNOME. If I wanted to watch'em, I would probably choose KDE instead of GNOME, would I? Well, I suppose that should not be a problem because I saw on Novell Linux desktop that there is no KDE icons in GNOME. Just do the same thing for SUSE and the new SUSE will be just perfect!!! Especially if you did gtk2 version of Yast2, but I guess I'm rude now :)

Personal Ancestry File for linux

Could someone please port PAF to linux. PAF is the best genealogy program there is and it needs to run on linux. Furthemore it should be packaged with Suse.

What is the url to PAF? Did you try gramps. What does PAF have that gramps does not have? The gramps developers are very eager to add what is missing, so ask them to add your favorite missing functionality to gramps. Gramps is present for suse (9.3) for suse 10 it will be available after it's official release.

horde

I am wishing for horde to be included in Suse.

vlc

I am wishing for horde to be included in Suse.

amule

I am wishing for horde to be included in Suse.

aria2

aria2 is a command line download utility with resuming and segmented downloading. Supported protocols are HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/BitTorrent/Metalink. It would be nice if it was packaged for suse.

ktechlab and Qucs

both are good programs for electronic simulations

Kshutdown

allows a user to shut down the system at specified time