Spin Name

QtDesktop Spin

Summary

QtDesktop is a lightwight qt based application set. It is based on Razor-qt desktop toolbox and Qt4-based applications.

Owner(s)

Name: Eugene Pivnev

email: ti.eugene@gmail.com

Detailed Description

It contains a login manager, the Razor-qt desktop environment with Openbox as windowmanager, and a set of useful Qt based applications, like a filemanager, an image-viewer, a multimeda player as well as other useful tools that make the daily desktop usage more comfortable.

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qBittorrent torrent client

Qlipper clipboard manager

QPdfView PDF/PS viewer

QTerminal terminal

Qtparted partition editor

Quite-RSS RSS/Atom aggregator

QupZilla web browser

QutIm instant messenger

QXkb keyboard layout switcher

ScreenGrab screen grabber

SpeedCrunch calculator

Razor-qt desktop toolbox

Also SMplayer and VLC video players available in rpmfusion repositories.

See http://www.qtdesktop.org/applist for full application list

Benefit to Fedora

QtDesktop is the first lightweight pure Qt based desktop environment. It contains applications that exist as for Linux as for other OS's. Therefore it can provide familiar environment for former Windows/MacOS users. It works great on modern machines as well as on weaker hardware.

Kickstart File

http://tieugene.fedorapeople.org/fedora-livecd-qtdesktop.ks

ISO Name / FS Label

ISO Name: Fedora-%{ver}-%{arch}-QtDesktop

FS Label: Fedora-%{ver}-%{arch}-QtDesktop-Live

Dependencies

Usefull Qt-based applications that are not exist yet:

Archiver

Mail client (candidate - Trojita)

CD/DVD burning

Raster image editor

Password storage (like kwallet)

Auth frontend (like usermode-gtk, kdesu)

Sane frontend

Network manager

Printer manager

User manager

Package manager

Scope / Testing

This is a desktop/live cd and should boot right into QtDesktop off a CD.

Spins Page

Slogan

Familiar environment everywhere.

Spin description

Fedora QtDesktop Spin brings together usefull Qt-based applications on top of Razor-qt desktop toolbox.

Screenshot

Download tab

http://tieugene.fedorapeople.org/Fedora-18-i686-QtDesktop.iso

Support tab

Mail or XMPP (same address).

Custom branding

TBD (candidates - Qt logo, Razor-qt logo, green color).