what is niri-placeholder-crate fr?

This repository holds a placeholder package for niri, which is a scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor. In plain terms, niri is software that manages how windows appear and behave on your screen, a core piece of a Linux desktop environment. The "scrollable-tiling" part means it arranges your application windows side by side in a way that you scroll through horizontally, giving you a structured way to organize your workspace. The reason this placeholder exists is to prevent bad actors from grabbing the niri name on the Rust package registry and publishing something harmful under that identity. By publishing an empty, official package first, the niri team ensures that no one can impersonate or trick users looking to download their software. The project itself is written in Rust. This is useful for developers who publish open-source tools and want to protect their users. But for people who actually want to use the desktop software, this package is not the right way to get it. The maintainers are clear that a standard Rust installation won't give you a proper niri setup, because a desktop environment needs extra system files that a simple package manager command cannot provide. Instead, the intended path is to install the full software through your system's standard distribution channels. The project points users to their official getting-started documentation for proper installation instructions. In short, think of this as a protective signpost on a public registry rather than the actual application code.