Bug 2329754

Hello Danny,
thank you for the report.

> Core widgets should work out-of-the-box by installing the right set of dependencies.

They should, I agree with you. Or if some widgets don't work, we should probably let users know in a better way than crashing due to missing dependencies. But I didn't figure out how.


> pulsectl is already available in Fedora with `python3-pulsectl`. However, there's no package available for pulsectl-asyncio.

I added a dependency for the python3-pulsectl
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/qtile/c/a480ff9397953a246d9ed8100e8755ac45644f39
and I found out that someone is packaging `python3-pulsectl-asyncio` in Copr, so I asked him if he would be interested in moving the package to the official Fedora repositories. In such a case, I'd do a package review, and add a dependency for Qtile. But I don't have the capacity to maintain the package myself.


By the way Denny, I myself use the Volume widget
https://docs.qtile.org/en/latest/manual/ref/widgets.html#volume
in my config, so may use that as a temporary workaround until PulseVolume gets fixed.

> Or if some widgets don't work, we should probably let users know in a better way than crashing due to missing dependencies

That would be a totally acceptable solution if you don't have the bandwidth to package more things. I also don't know how we could do it directly in Fedora but we could document it upstream in the meantime at https://docs.qtile.org/en/stable/manual/install/fedora.html. I'll send a PR for the PulseVolume widget before end of week.

> By the way Denny, I myself use the Volume widget https://docs.qtile.org/en/latest/manual/ref/widgets.html#volume in my config, so may use that as a temporary workaround until PulseVolume gets fixed.

Thanks for the suggestion. I want with a different approach and installed the missing packages with `pip`. However, I also had to add the following in my config because Qtile in Fedora is missing a path to lookup the current user pip packages.

```
import sys
sys.path.append(".local/lib/python3.13/site-packages")
```

> I'll send a PR for the PulseVolume widget before end of week.

You probably don't have to. We got the missing package reviewed and into Fedora
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-pulsectl-asyncio

We should have it available soon, and then I will fix this Qtile bug.

FEDORA-2024-9241f312e4 (qtile-0.29.0-3.fc41) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 41.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-9241f312e4

FEDORA-2024-9241f312e4 has been pushed to the Fedora 41 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2024-9241f312e4`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-9241f312e4

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

FEDORA-2024-9241f312e4 (qtile-0.29.0-3.fc41) has been pushed to the Fedora 41 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.