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Qtile window manager

Summary

Self contained change to provide qtile window manger.

Owner

Name: Tomas Dabašinskas
Email: tomas AT redhat.com
Release notes owner:

Current status

Targeted release: Fedora 20
Last updated: 22/07/2013
Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>

Detailed Description

Qtile is simple, small, and extensible. It's easy to write your own layouts, widgets, and built-in commands.
Qtile is written and configured entirely in Python, which means you can leverage the full power and flexibility of the language to make it fit your needs.
The Qtile community is active and growing, so there's always someone to lend a hand when you need help.
Qtile is free and open-source software, distributed under the permissive MIT license.

Benefit to Fedora

Qtile is configuration files are written in python
Qtile is packaged for every other major distro.

Scope

Package python-xpyb (complete)
pass
Enable xcb for cairo
inprogress
Enable xcb and xpyb for pycairo
inprogress
Package qtile
inprogress

Proposal owners: tdabasin

Other developers: Christopher Meng(package review/testing)

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

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