[Hamara-devel] An update

[Krishnakant]

On Saturday 25 June 2016 08:08 AM, abhijith wrote:
>
> On Friday 24 June 2016 08:56 PM, Vikas Tara wrote:
>> On 24/06/16 15:21, abhijith wrote:
>>> I revisited hamara wiki howto notes on building iso and successfully
>>> built one. I am now looking at making meta package using equivs.
>> Great - if you see any of the other mate distros you'll easily find the
>> package list required for mate.
> I gave building the meta package a go yesterday. I created a control
> file with help of equivs and edited it refering to the control file in
> debian mate-desktop package. I added mate-menu(the advanced menu with
> search facility) into dependencies. Then it was built using equivs-build
> and installed in my chroot using gdebi. I am adding whatever was
> displayed on terminal in a text file and the deb file as attachment.
>> We should probably discuss which applications to include as part of the
>> default install.
> First thing that comes across my mind is the menu. Mate default menu is
> loved by people who like classic gnome2 desktop but the advanced menu is
> more easy to use. Which way to go? Or should we provide options for
> different interfaces like Ubuntu-Mate team does?

I think We should provide the way Ubuntu does for a simple reason that 
within a limit we can certainly give choices to people and yes I have 
used both the menus and they are good.
happy hacking.
Krishnakant.