On 23/06/2015, Martin Read <zen75...@zen.co.uk> wrote: > On 22/06/15 18:01, Bret Busby wrote: >> The names of the applications are also in spanish. >> >> Is it really too much to ask, for application names to be in english? > > Speaking as a native speaker of English: Yes. > > What's wrong with using languages other than English to name programs? > The last program I wrote is named in Latin (as is one of my favourite > commercial video games), and the name of the audio player software I use > on my desktop PC is a word from the Inuit languages. > >> And, does it have all of thev functionality of gnome 2, including (but >> not limited to) allowing the panel to be positioned along the bottom >> of the screen, and, inclusion of the system monitor applet in the >> panel? > > From the wikipedia article: > > "MATE is a desktop environment forked from the now-unmaintained code > base of GNOME 2. It is named after the South American plant Yerba mate > and tea made from the herb, mate. The use of a new name, instead of > GNOME, avoids conflicts with GNOME 3 components." > > From the official web site: > > "The MATE Desktop Environment is the continuation of GNOME 2." >
But all of this digression into discussing the mate desktop environment stll does not get either Debian 6 or 7 working with either the intel, or the nvidia, graphics device, in the Acer V3-772G, to drive the external monitor. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 .................................................... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/cacx6j8pmbtmqwtxogsr2ooovco_1rqgq+kufnnurbydpqdm...@mail.gmail.com
