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: <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

At this time, waiting on upstream to fix remaining release blockers.

Contingency Plan

If things don't work out, simply do not include the package

Documentation

Coming