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[Israel <israel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,
We had a great meeting this last Saturday (the rest of you should REALLY
attend please)

Here is the list of things fixed so far:

It was suggested I should use a different menu generator, which we may
eventually, however I wanted a custom menu for the LiveCD to display the
PDF and installer prominently in the menu.
So... I browsed through the source code of the xdg-menu maker and saw
how they did it... (very fancy).  I simply used their xdg directory
lists in my menu... so now the menu is localized :) hurray!!!
The other things I did was use:
if [ ! -z "${VARIABLE}" ]
the -z stands for zero length... so basically if there is not a zero
length it will make a sub menu for the category...  Hurray... it
automatically hides categories that do not have anything in them.

The other MAJOR issue was internet...  I had used Nio's OBI script in
his he uses network-manager and we want to use wicd...  so both were
installed and when that happens wicd will NOT work.
So, I rebuilt with wicd (as well as usermod -G netdev root) so the
internet is working.

The next two major issues are OBI... I need to figure out me symlinks
correctly, whatever I am doing is making it very hard for OBI to be a
one button installer... however Nio successfully installed it on his HD,
but of course he made OBI and knows how to get it to do what he wants :)

And... the pdf viewer... I may simply axe xpdf and use evince...  xpdf
is really ugly anyhow...
I know David wanted to use evince rather than xpdf.  I happen to think
this is a very wise choice :)

Oh... I installed Midori in this version, as qupzilla is not in the
repos for 12.04...  Midori is ok, but really it is gtk and not qt so
there are less dependencies.

Alpha rc one is well underway.  I will try to have a better alpha by
next Saturday.. one that installs easily :)

Thanks again to all who participated in the meeting, it was great!  Lots
of good ideas.  Mainly it helps me to have another developer who:
1. knows what I am talking about
2. can give suggestions
3. has been programming a lot longer so they have more real world experience

:D

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Regards