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qtile

Summary

qtile is a tiling window manager written in python. More can be found at the project's website

Owner

Name: John Dulaney
Email: <jdulaney@fedoraproject.org>
Release notes owner:

Current status

Targeted release: Fedora 22
Last updated: 10-12-2014
Tracker bug: #1191544

Detailed Description

Simple, small and extensible. It's easy to write your own layouts, widgets and commands.
Configured in Python.
Command shell that allows all aspects of Qtile to be managed and inspected.
Complete remote scriptability - write scripts to set up workspaces, manipulate windows, update status bar widgets and more.
Qtile's remote scriptability makes it one of the most thoroughly unit-tested window mangers around.

Benefit to Fedora

Bring a really slick window manager with an active upstream to Fedora.

Scope

Proposal owners:

Completed.

Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Release engineering: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Upgrade/compatibility impact

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

How To Test

Install qtile (dnf install qtile)
In desktop/session manager, select qtile
log in
Hit meta(Windows key) - r to bring up launcher on task bar at bottom of screen
type firefox and hit enter
Firefox should come up
Use ctrl-meta-q to log out.

User Experience

Nice, highly configurable, python-y awesomeness!

Dependencies

All dependencies are packaged, upstream has released 0.9.1

Contingency Plan

Package is in repos, change is in place.

Documentation

Coming

Release Notes

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 == Detailed Description ==
-<!-- Expand on the summary, if appropriate.  A couple sentences suffices to explain the goal, but the more details you can provide the better. -->
+* Simple, small and extensible. It's easy to write your own layouts, widgets and commands.
+* Configured in Python.
+* Command shell that allows all aspects of Qtile to be managed and inspected.
+* Complete remote scriptability - write scripts to set up workspaces, manipulate windows, update status bar widgets and more.
+* Qtile's remote scriptability makes it one of the most thoroughly unit-tested window mangers around.
 == Benefit to Fedora ==
-<!-- What is the benefit to the platform?  If this is a major capability update, what has changed?  If this is a new functionality, what capabilities does it bring? Why will Fedora become a better distribution or project because of this proposal?-->
+Bring a really slick window manager with an active upstream to Fedora.
 == Scope ==
 * Proposal owners:
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+Completed.
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+* Install qtile (dnf install qtile)
-N/A (not a System Wide Change)
+* In desktop/session manager, select qtile
+* log in
+* Hit meta(Windows key) - r to bring up launcher on task bar at bottom of screen
+* type firefox and hit enter
+* Firefox should come up
+* Use ctrl-meta-q to log out.
 == User Experience ==
-<!-- If this change proposal is noticeable by its target audience, how will their experiences change as a result?  Describe what they will see or notice. -->
+Nice, highly configurable, python-y awesomeness!
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-N/A (not a System Wide Change)
 == Dependencies ==
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+All dependencies are packaged, upstream has released 0.9.1
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-N/A (not a System Wide Change)
 == Contingency Plan ==
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+Package is in repos, change is in place.
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 == Documentation ==
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+Coming
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-N/A (not a System Wide Change)
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