Well… now that I think of it…. I don’t think that ‘helluwa’ is a dictionary word. 
But that is not the point here… The point is that openSUSE 11 is looking better and better as days are going by and I am now really waiting very patiently for it to release. But it is getting moe and more difficult.
openSUSE 11.0 Installer Revamp
Jimmac re-adjusted the Qt stylesheets for the openSUSE 11.0 installer to produce an even more beautiful implementation. The ease by which the template can be changed fully demonstrates the flexibility of Qt stylesheets:
Note that the above is not a mock up, but the actual YCP template.
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GNOME Client for the openSUSE Build Service
Rodrigo began work on a GNOME client for the Build Service, giving you a graphical way to interact with the build service directly from your desktop!
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Sterling: Accounting Program for GNOME
This Hack Week saw the birth of Sterling, an accounting program for GNOME.
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YaST Theme Selector
Marco Michna created a new YaST module: a theme selector for YaST. It allows you to quickly and easily change between YaST icon themes:
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Command-not-found for openSUSE
Pavol completely implemented Command-not-found for openSUSE, making it very easy for users to install applications that they would like to use. See a demonstration of its use below:
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NCurses Package Selector Revamp
Katarina improved the layout of the ncurses package selector in order to give it a better structure and make it more user friendly:
See more screenshots.
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Tasky: Task Management Application for GNOME
Thanks to Boyd, another new application was made: Tasky. Tasky is a simple task management application for the Linux Desktop, written in what’s becoming my favorite language C#. By default, Tasky hooks up with your Remember the Milk account and allows you to quickly add/edit/complete your tasks right from your desktop in a much more intuitive way than the browser.
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A whole lot more!
Countless of other projects have been created, touched up, improved. Here’s a list of just a few more:
- Work Began on Mapper, a fork of maemo-mapper to provide more OpenStreetMap-oriented features.
- Huge improvements to libopenraw
- Zypper now has bash completion!
- All YaST tutorials have been moved to the openSUSE Wiki
- You can now save UFRaw settings in XMP
- GNOME Login time improvements. This hack week’s work concentrated on profiling the GNOME Panel startup.
- Libzypp, openSUSE’s Package Management, now has the ability to save downloaded packages
- Continued work on the openSUSE Base Project.
- And much more!
(The above improvements have been taken from the openSUSE news issue 10.)
So… with all suck improvements coming almost every other week. I am sure that SUSE is going to rock the Linux world with it’s new release. Stay tunned….
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