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Qtile 0.5 release notes
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*November 11th, 2012*

Download `qtile-0.5.tar.gz <https://github.com/qtile/qtile/archive/v0.5.tar.gz>`_

This marks the first officially community managed release.

Changelog
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Features
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* Test framework is now `nose <https://nose.readthedocs.org/en/latest/>`_
* Documentation is now in `sphinx <http://sphinx-doc.org/>`_
* Several install guides for various OSes
* New widgets: battery based icon, MPRIS1, canto, current layout, yahoo
  weather, sensors, screen brightness, notifiy, pacman, windowtabs,
  she, crashme, wifi.
* Several improvements to old widgets (e.g. battery widget displays low
  battery in red, GroupBox now has a better indication of which screen
  has focus in multi-screen setups, improvements to Prompt, etc.)
* Desktop notification service.
* More sane way to handle configuration files
* Promote dgroups to a first class entity in libqtile

- Allow layouts to be named on an instance level, so you can:
  ::

    layouts = [
        # a layout just for gimp
        layout.Slice('left', 192, name='gimp', role='gimp*toolbox',
            fallback=layout.Slice('right', 256, role='gimp*dock',
            fallback=layout.Stack(stacks=1, **border_args)))
    ]
    ...

    dynamic_groups = { 'gimp': {'layout': 'gimp'} }

    Dgroups(..., dynamic_groups, ...)

* New Layout: Zoomy
* Add a session manager to re-exec qtile if things go south
* Support for WM_TAKE_FOCUS protocol
* Basic .desktop file for support in login managers
* Qsh reconnects after qtile is restarted from within it
* Textbox supports pango markup
* Examples moved to `qtile-examples <https://github.com/qtile/qtile-examples>`_ repository.

Bug fixes
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* Fix several classes of X races in a more sane way
* Minor typo fixes to most widgets
* Fix several crashes when drawing systray icons too early
* Create directories for qtile socket as necessary
* PEP8 formatting updates (though we're not totally there yet)
* All unit tests pass
* Lots of bugfixes to MonadTall
* Create IPC socket directory if necessary
* Better error if two widgets have STRETCH width
* Autofloat window classes can now be overridden
* xkeysyms updated