Changes/Qtile

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)

Upgrade/compatibility impact

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

How To Test

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

User Experience

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Dependencies

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Contingency Plan

• Contingency mechanism: (What to do? Who will do it?) N/A (not a System Wide Change)
• Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
• Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change), Yes/No

Documentation

N/A (not a System Wide Change)