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== Detailed Description ==
== Detailed Description ==

Revision as of 13:34, 11 February 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

Detailed Description

Review request submitted: [1]

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

Release Notes

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