[Hamara-devel] We have moved from GNOME to MATE right ?

[Vikas Tara]

On 25/08/15 16:22, shirish wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just inquiring. We have moved from GNOME to MATE or is GNOME going to 
> be one for the desktop managers ?
>
> Also if we are using GNOME, would it be GNOME shell or GNOME flashback ?
>
> Also which version, as Jessie was primarily GNOME 3.8 IIRC
>
> I tried looking through the release notes but because even the English 
> version has some stupid Russian fonts, glyphs etc. reported that
>
> bugs.debian.org/796895
>
> and used the Debian BTS to find which version is in stable.
>
> I tracked gnome-panel as that is usually a good parameter to figure 
> out which version of GNOME is happening.
>
> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/gnome-panel
>
> And as can be seen GNOME is 3.8 and if we are using GNOME 3.16 (which 
> will be in stretch unless 3.18 releases in time and people do the 
> updates at a faster rate than so far) then need to know that.
>
> Now just so that people do not think I have lost my senses, I was just 
> looking at the hamara wiki and saw :-
>
> https://wiki.hamaralinux.org/wiki/index.php/Documentation
>
> Suggestion - We should be specific to what versions we are 
> giving/sharing with people, would be good for us as well as versioning 
> as we all know is all-important (god :) )
>
> Hopefully somebody can share which desktop managers and window 
> managers would be used for stretch .
Hamara Sugam will have lxde
Hamara already has Gnome 3.14
Hamara (debian base) should have the latest Gnome 3.1x that we can 
manage at that time. I guess looking at how things are going right now, 
that will likely be Gnome 3.18

>
> Would we be using lightdm and gdm3 or only lightdm or some other 
> display managers as well ?
lightdm on hamara-sugam
gdm on hamara
>
> Same is the case with desktop managers as well.
>
> Are we going to have MATE, GNOME, GNOME Flashback and something else 
> as well or what ?
For me, gnome shell is sufficient.

>
> It would be nice if we put a roadmap, maybe on the wiki ?
>
> What do people think ?
Agree!

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