[needs-packaging] x-tile needs packaging

[chris_c]

http://open.vitaminap.it/en/x_tile.htm

this applet has received some great feedback and has 5 different language settings.

It can tile and manipulate a number of windows with any ordering, while primarily a gnome applet
it can be used standalone even down to a hot key per function, it has also been tested with xfce4

The authors are still actively developing and adding new features such as separate configs per X screen
and will often implement sensible feedback into the application, despite the on going development
it is stable and has a near complete set of features

It is a pure python application which uses the ctypes standard python module to access the xlib and psutils libraries
and is therefore architecture independent

There is a generic deb install file compatible with ubuntu and xubuntu but it is not available in the repos

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

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This bug is tagged needs-packaging which identifies it as a request for a new package in Ubuntu. As a part of the managing needs-packaging bug reports specification, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Specs/NeedsPackagingBugs, all needs-packaging bug reports have Wishlist importance. Subsequently, I'm setting this bug's status to Wishlist.

[Fernando Miguel (fernandomiguel)]

A better URL:
http://www.giuspen.com/x-tile/

i've been chatting with its dev.
He is really bothered his app is yet to be packaged into Ubuntu, although i've told him, that not even Debian has it packaged either.

[chris_c (c-camacho)]

I wouldn't say "really bothered" it just seems a shame that Ubuntu users are being left out, despite the fact there is a ready made package on the site...

Suse Linux https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=x-tile&project=GNOME%3AApps
Fedora https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/x-tile
Arch Linux http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29734

This could be an opportunity for Ubuntu to pass back something to Debian....