Well, there's already a discussion on the mailing lists, and while I can't speak for the project, (nor am I an attorney, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night), the "Main" openSUSE Project logo is a registered trademark of SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, so it's highly unlikely that it's going to change.
Well, I can say, with all certainty, that while I appreciate the submissions, and the community making themselves heard, that isn't the new Kalpa logo.
Yes, Printer setup on openSUSE is still a clusterfuck, for reasons. You're best off in openSUSE KDE to just point your webbrowser at http://localhost:631 and log directly into CUPS and setup your printers that way.
If you want all your web video and whatnot to work, you need to install the codecs from Packman, in their entirety, or use a flatpak'd web browser. openSUSE won't ship patent encumbered codecs from the official repositories.
Unless you really know what you're doing, with Leap, or Tumbleweed, stick with the OSS and non-OSS repos provided. They are the ones that have been through the openQA process, and are officially "supported". If you enable a bunch of home: devel: or other repositories, just assume that they're unstable, and use at your own risk. If you're looking at a repository on OBS, and don't see openSUSE_Tumbleweed as one of the build targets, then forcing the install with a Leap or SLE package, may, or may not break things.
Regarding zypper ref and autorefresh, I can't recall exactly, but there is the chance that just running zypper dup and hoping that it refreshes everything on it's own, with non-standard repositories may fail, which can lead to some weird edgecases.
Just in general, you're going to want to run zypper ref && zypper dup (not the other way round) As far as YaST being targetted more at Leap than Tumbleweed, you're exactly right. And there's a reason that we don't ship it with newer flavours of the distribution.
Then yes, there are all kinds of things in the repositories that are going to annoy you.
What "wishy-washy" policy are you on about?
I certainly don't care what distribution you use, but Tumbleweed, aside from the occasional glitch on single updates, is stable as hell, and has been for a long time. It's hardly "bleeding edge" and on Par with Fedora, for instance, as far as stability is concerned. I'd say a bit more stable than the Arch derivatives, due to openQA.
Its not perfect by any means, but no distribution is.
This pretty much backs up what I've been seeing. Everybody wants to use Leap, nobody wants to work on it.
The change listed in the upstream bug has been in Tumbleweed for months, I see you're running Tumbleweed, So this is obviously a bug. Please file a bug at bugzilla.opensuse.org, as there currently isn't one existing. (I'm not encountering this bug, just saying)
The change shown in the upstream bug has been made in the openSUSE Tumbleweed Packages, months ago. Are you using Leap, or Tumbleweed?
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I actually read the whole post. Since you're on Tumbleweed, this is indeed a bug, please file one at bugzilla.opensuse.org
I highly doubt this is ever going to happen. It's not what zypper is designed for. Its easy enough to write a bash alias, or shell script to combine the two commands.
At the moment, yes, Clicking "Gnome Desktop" in the MicroOS ISO installer will get you Aeon, clicking "Plasma Desktop" will get you Kalpa.
The branding and flavour specific installation ISO's are still being worked on.
It feels pretty good, as well as looks pretty good. YaST and the YaST installer have been basically in maintenance mode for a long time, without any active development for a number of years now, and it's certainly time to move on.