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+ = Ideas for Fedora i3 Spin
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+ Fedora i3 SIG <i3wm@lists.fedoraproject.org>
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+ :toc:
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+ This page is a loose collection of notes, ideas, and brainstorming thoughts on the Fedora i3 Spin.
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+ The content here may be used to create other docs pages in the future.
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+ For now, it is here for historical reference and convenience of SIG members.
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+ [[goals]]
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+ == Goals
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+ * i3 tiling window manager by default
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+ * Convenience integrations on par with Fedora Workstation (e.g. laptop buttons, network manager, etc.)
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+ * Targeted at low-end computing environments
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+ * Sensible defaults
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+ [[defaults]]
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+ == Defaults
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+ These defaults are not final.
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+ This section is the most recent agreed-upon packages for defaults, but they are not set in the kickstarts.
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+ * *Terminal*:
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+ ??
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+ * *Launcher*:
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+ `dmenu`
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+ * *GUI network manager*:
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+ `network-manager-applet`
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+ * *GUI audio interface*:
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+ `pavucontrol`
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+ * *Browser*:
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+ `firefox`
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+ * *Text editor*:
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+ `mousepad`
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+ ** know it’s from XFCE, but Bryan uses this on Manjaro i3 because it allows hiding of the menubar for frame-only text editing window
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+ (bliss)
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+ * *Pre-installed command-line applications*:
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+ ** `abcde`:
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+ audio extractor if people want this?
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+ It rocks
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+ ** `w3m`:
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+ Best-in-class CLI browsing
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+ ** `nano`:
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+ Curses-based text editing
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+ ** `irssi`:
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+ IRC?
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+ Necessary?
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+ ** `newsboat`:
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+ CLI RSS reader
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+ ** `midnight-commander`:
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+ *** File management at terminal
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+ *** Access remote systems via SSH and SFTP
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+ ** `cmus`:
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+ CLI music manager and player
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+ ** `moc`:
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+ People tend to like this CLI music manager/player,but I think cmus is better.
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+ ** `wordgrinder`:
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+ CLI word processor and the very best one at that
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+ [[inspirations]]
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+ === Design inspirations
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+ These were ideas and design inspirations contributed during the idea-gathering phase of building the Fedora i3 Spin.
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+
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+ * Current Fedora recommendations
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+ ** Fedora Magazine offers this tutorial for installing and configuring i3, but the result is fairly barebones and lacks polish; still useful however for seeing the settings and applications the author recommends
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+ * Regolith Linux
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+ ** Seems close to Michael’s vision for this Fedora spin (robust GNOME base with tiling wm on top, sane defaults, neat customizations like a launcher and color-coded desktops), but almost appears too bloated (all the GNOME software is there on fresh install) and maybe a little too resource intensive;
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+ it’s simply built on Ubuntu; lots of neat little enhancement here (keybindings are custom and very straightforward, for example, in well-commented i3 config file)
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+ * Manjaro i3
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+ ** Much more minimal implementation;
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+ some of the defaults are questionable (Pale Moon browser? The GIMP by default?), but it’s closer to the minimalistic implementation that Michael describes;
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+ built on Arch as base so pretty overwhelming to non-technical users (says this non-technical user!);
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+ uses Ranger file manager
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+ (did not like; installed midnight commander immediately)
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+ * Gnome Material Shell
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+ ** Looks like an attempt to introduce tiling into Gnome via plugin/extension
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jflory7
commented 3 years ago
This commit imports the Ideas.md file from the Fedora-i3-Spin repo. It
converts it from Markdown to AsciiDoc, and reorganizes the content with
headings and other groupings. Some outdated information was removed.