Vertical taskbars on MATE

[Liam Proven]

On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 at 05:14, Little Girl <littlergirl at gmail.com> wrote:

> >https://www.jfedor.org/shots/beos.png
> >
> >That works too. :-)
>
> Is that one of the context menu only desktops?

BeOS? It's an OS not a desktop.

No it is not context-menu driven. It's sort of a hybrid of classic
MacOS and Windows 95.

> I've tried something
> like that once and wouldn't have minded it much if there was a way to
> access it while a program was full-screen,

Fair point.

> but would still miss that
> bottom left button with a menu on it that's been there for years.

I never leave it there. It's not. I don't even particularly want a
Start menu at all.

> I've tried both of those a few years ago, but not recently. I
> rejected Xfce because it doesn't have a normal desktop.

Yes it does.

> If I can't
> store files and directories on the desktop, that's a deal-breaker for
> me.

This functionality is there and works fine.

It's GNOME 3 that had already removed it.

 > I can't remember why I rejected LXDE. Maybe because of its menu
> or because you couldn't put the trash in the panel's tray. It's been
> too long. I'll have to give both of those a try again.

I prefer my trash on the desktop but it's not important to me.

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