Qtile 0.5 release notes

November 11th, 2012

Download qtile-0.5.tar.gz

This marks the first officially community managed release.

Changelog

Features

• Test framework is now nose
• Documentation is now in sphinx
• 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 repository.

Bug fixes

• 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