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[Liam Proven]

On 6 February 2018 at 21:17, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:

> Because what I saw of the web page, did not include, in the images
> displayed, a sample from UbuntuMATE, no indication was apparent, that
> it had been tried.

No, it did not show a picture of MATE doing a vertical taskbar with
horizontally-arranged controls, because MATE can't do it.

It did not show a picture of something that is impossible. It showed
pictures of the only two environments that _could_ do it.

Then it said, in text:

«
The mainstream Linux desktops make this very hard. Why? C'mon KDE,
Maté, Cinnamon -- get with it!
»

> You could have simply answered "Yes - I have tried that, and it did
> not give what I wanted" - or, something similarly concizse, to that
> effect, instead of your response above.

I must quote Charles Babbage:

«
I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that
could provoke such a question.
»

Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/charles_babbage_141832

> At that, i will leave it there, for this thread.

You did not think through what I was saying, but when I point that
out, it is _my_ fault?

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