Changes/qtile

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:

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