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Revision as of 13:52, 21 January 2015
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: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
Detailed Description
Once qtile 0.9 is released upstream, package it for Fedora. All of the dependencies are already in Rawhide as of this writing.
Benefit to Fedora
Bring a really slick window manager with an active upstream to Fedora.
Scope
- Proposal owners:
Work with upstream to get releae out and then package for Fedora
- 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 0.9.0
Contingency Plan
If things don't work out, simply do not include the package
Documentation
Coming