On 21/06/2015, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Saturday 20 June 2015 18:01:41 Bret Busby wrote: >> mate, apart from being in spanish, > > codswallop! > > Lisi >
At https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATE_(software) is " MATE (/mɑːteɪ/; Spanish pronunciation: [ˈmate]) 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.[3] The use of a new name, instead of GNOME, avoids conflicts with GNOME 3 components. " Spanish. At https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerba_mate is " Yerba mate (from Spanish [ˈʝerβa ˈmate] " Spanish. At https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mate_(beverage) is " Mate (Spanish: [ˈmate] " Spanish. At https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATE_(software) is " MATE has forked a number of applications originating as the GNOME Core Applications, and developers have written several other applications from scratch. The forked applications have new names - mostly in Spanish: " But, them, you are the all-knowing ex-spurt, ane everyone who thinks differently to you, is automatically absolutely wrong. As you said, tha mate desktop is not spanish - it is codswallop. And, as you are obviously always absolutely correct, the mate desktop must be codswallop. And, obviously, anyone who disagrees, must be wrong, because you said it. -- 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/CACX6j8Mjys576JM8DGaiH6bPq__2mNd4Xz22s+GtsM1rWV=p...@mail.gmail.com