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One-Click Install openSUSE Build Service

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Adrian Schröter made an announcement on the openSUSE Build-Service(OBS) ML that OBS now supports storage of .ymp files which makes ‘one-click’ installation of patterns (group of pacakges) possible.

This announcement ties in with one of the long list enhancements going on over at www.opensuse.org, which incidentally got a new home page with a mischievous message developer left in it’s source

New portal was also launched last week news.opensuse.org that should keep you all up to speed with whatever is going on in and around SUSE world, this makes a very good ‘official’ addition to Planet SUSE maintained by James Ogley where blogs of all the people involved with SUSE are syndicated.

Very soon we are to have a software portal where you can go and install anything you want directly by clicking in the browser. Work is already underway and you can install KDE4, Pidgin, Multimedia support etc using Benji’s one-click installer(does not work with the latest metapackage handler) from HERE.

Get and install the latest YaST2 meta package handler for your version of openSUSE, open konqueror and click on any of the .ymp from here:

KDE4

Compiz and Compiz-Fusion (see also this link)

Currently one-click works out of box with konqueror only, to use it with firefox you can do the following:

Create a file called /sbin/FirefoxMPHandler containing:

#!/bin/bash
/sbin/YaST2 MetaPackageHandler $@

change it’s permission: chmod +x /sbin/FirefoxMPHandler

Click on .ymp and select ‘Open With’ -> /sbin/FirefoxMPHandler -> ‘Do this for file like this from now on’

Note: Firefox instructions are temporary only, it should be fixed by 10.3 release so you would not have to do that at all ;).

For systemwide association you can put this in /etc/mailcap:

YMP;/sbin/FirefoxMPHandler

If you are a packager on OBS, create and upload some patterns we can click and install.

Have fun with it!

Big Edit: Preview of the software portal with one click install is already here: http://software.opensuse.org

Flip, flow, float and fly

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Here are some exciting new developments that has happened in compiz-fusion world.

Onestone created a new plugin called ‘Shift’ that does Flip and coverflow window switching. Here is the Flip mode:

Coverflow mode:

The above is in addition to what ring and compiz-core switcher can do. If you think your screen need any saving after all that you can enable screensaver from Pafy. The screensaver (does no good to your CPU) has two modes floating windows and cube.

Now, how can you not want windows folding itself into an airplane and flying off into the distance? Carlo Palma just created that animation effect.

Here is the video of it in action: airplane3d.ogg

Checkout the git for source and have fun.

Edit: New packages from the Test Repository should have all the new plugins and effects.

One Million Downloads in 4 Months!!

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Statistics started to count 4 months ago.
Sum of all downloads (whole build service): 12 747 490
Sum of all downloads filtered by project=X11:XGL: 1 033 406

Here are the statistics downloads from X11:XGL  repository over at openSUSE Build Service, the repository is maintained by me along with Matthias Hopf. It is second in popularity to KDE3 only, shows eyecandy is quite sought after commodity.

National Conference on Open Source Software

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I was out attending a two day National Conference on Open Source Software here in Ahmedabad, India. Sparing couple of inspiring talks by prominent FOSS speakers, the entire event was a shame, I am sure the organizers worked very hard putting this event together, however as one participant put it “M$ would have done far better job of executing the event”.

There were two workshops on the second day, I attended “Development track” part, it is best that I do not mention anything about it.

I would like two days of my life back.

On the bright side, Ankit Patel who is leading a team of translators at Red Hat has promised to help with Gujarati translations of Compiz-Fusion, met up with one of our heroes C Umashankar who singlehandedly migrated the entire Tamilnadu State IT infrastructure(over 40000 desktops and servers) to SUSE Linux. We need more people like him around.

There were couple of guys from Mozilla foundation, Seth Bindernagel and Chris Hofmann who made a good impression about Mozilla’s role in making web experience better and safer. Switch to Firefox if you already haven’t.

Another good thing that was highlighted (although most participants lost it by that time) was http://www.icosindia.com/ initiative that would help nurture students interest in open standards and building open source applications for various industry verticals.

Hopefully, Novell will participate in the event next year and will be more appropriate to the name “National Conference”.

Compiz Fusion cube aquarium - first look

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Here is the sneak peak into the very latest compiz fusion plugin - atlantis, Onestone is one super programmer to get us this.

X-Attachinator from David Reveman

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Here is David Reveman himself demoing the idea that he worked on during Novell Hackweek.

“Have your desktop run remotely but the compositing manager run locally. It should be possible to detach and reattach at any point in time. Use the X protocol for efficient transport.”

Hack week and KIWI-LTSP project

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One of the major hacking festival is underway at Novell offices across the globe. With the announcement of Hack Week, a very cool Idea Portal was also announced, where anyone can post their ideas, request help, vote on ideas that they find appealing or work on any idea that they like.

Christoph Thiel has posted an idea about integrating LTSP with SUSE, a project I had been working since last couple of months. If you feel, schools and education institutions should be able to run openSUSE on low end diskless clients, please go and vote for it and better still join the team to make it happen.

Teaser of what is to come in Compiz-Fusion

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Hold your breadth and click on this image.

Yup, that is Buddha meditating on the gears inside the cube. Yet another amazing work from compiz developer, Onestone.

See Compiz-Fusion Community News for more exciting information.

Want to take compiz-fusion for a test ride?

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If you are running openSUSE 10.2 follow these steps to get test packages of compiz-git, compiz-fusion-plugins and CompizConfig Settings Manager.

Be warned that these are test packages, so package names and many other things will change shortly. For everyday use I would advise not to install these packages and wait for proper release. There is absolutely no guarantee that these packages will work on your system.

1. As root run rpm -e compiz compiz-gnome compiz-kde (Remove previous compiz install completely)

2. download and install yast2-meta-package-handler

3. Fire up konqueror and click on this:

4. Launch compiz with the following command once installation is done (double dashes in front of replace):

compiz –replace ccp &

Start new settings manager:

ccsm &

Select all the plugins you like including “decoration” plugin, Add “your(changethis)-window-decorator –replace” as command string under ‘decoration’ plugin. Set ‘Focus Effect’ to ‘Dodge’.

If anyone has problem using these packages on Xgl, please update Mesa from this repository: XORG72

This is what you would get.

Jakub I am using Tango icons this time around

Edit: Please use the latest yast2-metapackage-handler  from the build service repository only.

Make your own distro, in easy steps

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Jiri Suchomel has created YaST module that makes creating KIWI images breeze, here are the steps to create your own live distro. As mentioned earlier, on other posts, you can choose to create Xen and other virtual machine images too.

The module is quite self explanatory, but here are the steps anyway.

Run yast2 product-creator after installing the YaST module.

Select the image you want to build.

After adding additional repositories like Guru, packman, nvidia and others Select patterns/packages you want on your distro.

You can add default users and that is about it, click on “Create ISO” and you have your own distribution with all the goodies you need.

The module is in very early stage of development, but it clearly shows the promise of making system imaging approachable to everyday user. Bugs reports, enhancement request can be made to Jiri Suchomel, see http://en.opensuse.org/KIWI for details.

Have fun!