09-21-2015, 01:50 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-21-2015, 09:48 PM by torreydale.)
@Ottah,
On suggestion 1, in the panel, the window that is on top does have a different color, even in MediterraneanLight. I will admit that I do change the Window Manager theme to something else for the people I help, mainly because in MediterraneanLight, it is difficult to grab the edge or corner of a window to resize it because the borders are so thin. It is doable, but you have to be more precise with your mouse pointer than you have to with the Kokodi or Daloa Window Manager themes. But I'm not to the point where I feel I need to insist on a change to the default Window Manager.
On suggestion 2, you can go to the Panel settings (Menu, Settings, Panel) and there you'll see, under the Display tab, a section called Measurements. It is there where you can adjust the sizing of your panel.
On suggestion 3, you may just need to do a forum or web search on hot corners for xfce and window tiling/cascading for xfce.
On suggestion 4, I don't know if we'd be able to do that without jettisoning the Whisker Menu and the XFCE desktop environment for something else or seriously altering them.
On suggestion 5, I disagree. The at-a-glance view and the simple check box are what make it great. Furthermore, the "rather than simple tick boxes" position is antithetical to the "Simple, Fast, Free" motto of Linux Lite. Lite Software isn't in competition with the Ubuntu Software Center. But as long as we're talking about the Ubuntu Software Center, see the forum thread titled "Another reason I'm glad I chose Linux Lite" at https://www.freecinema2022.gq/forums/on-to.../#msg16581.
But I get that you want someone like your folks to have a beginner friendly, menu driven alternative to the Install/Remove Software app (also known as Synaptic Package Manager). In that case, consider installing the Lubuntu Software Center. Again Lite Software isn't in competition with this. Lite Software is designed to be a very small repository of the most installed "types" of software that a user may want to use. It's not supposed to include every option for web browsers, chess games, media players, online storage centers, etc. Oftentimes, what gets added to or removed from Lite Software is based on polling the members of this forum.
On suggestion 6, I disagree. While in Linux Lite the "Move to Trash" option equals the default behavior of Windows' "Delete" option, in Linux Lite, the Move to trash and Delete options are next to one another and reasonably intuitive just by their names. There is a Trash folder, so when you move something to trash, you're moving it to that folder. When you attempt to Delete something, there is a popup warning you that Delete means permanent deletion from your computer. I like these default settings. Sometimes I want to do the two-step; other times I just want to completely remove.
On suggestion 7, our package managers have been good at managing this. Within our LTS (Long Term Support) model, security or version updates that come from upstream aren't likely to cause instability. As a member of this forum, what I've noticed causing instability is a user removing a lot of default programs, making kernel upgrades on their own, or installing alternative desktop environments. This seems to be unlikely behavior for your folks.
On suggestion 1, in the panel, the window that is on top does have a different color, even in MediterraneanLight. I will admit that I do change the Window Manager theme to something else for the people I help, mainly because in MediterraneanLight, it is difficult to grab the edge or corner of a window to resize it because the borders are so thin. It is doable, but you have to be more precise with your mouse pointer than you have to with the Kokodi or Daloa Window Manager themes. But I'm not to the point where I feel I need to insist on a change to the default Window Manager.
On suggestion 2, you can go to the Panel settings (Menu, Settings, Panel) and there you'll see, under the Display tab, a section called Measurements. It is there where you can adjust the sizing of your panel.
On suggestion 3, you may just need to do a forum or web search on hot corners for xfce and window tiling/cascading for xfce.
On suggestion 4, I don't know if we'd be able to do that without jettisoning the Whisker Menu and the XFCE desktop environment for something else or seriously altering them.
On suggestion 5, I disagree. The at-a-glance view and the simple check box are what make it great. Furthermore, the "rather than simple tick boxes" position is antithetical to the "Simple, Fast, Free" motto of Linux Lite. Lite Software isn't in competition with the Ubuntu Software Center. But as long as we're talking about the Ubuntu Software Center, see the forum thread titled "Another reason I'm glad I chose Linux Lite" at https://www.freecinema2022.gq/forums/on-to.../#msg16581.
But I get that you want someone like your folks to have a beginner friendly, menu driven alternative to the Install/Remove Software app (also known as Synaptic Package Manager). In that case, consider installing the Lubuntu Software Center. Again Lite Software isn't in competition with this. Lite Software is designed to be a very small repository of the most installed "types" of software that a user may want to use. It's not supposed to include every option for web browsers, chess games, media players, online storage centers, etc. Oftentimes, what gets added to or removed from Lite Software is based on polling the members of this forum.
On suggestion 6, I disagree. While in Linux Lite the "Move to Trash" option equals the default behavior of Windows' "Delete" option, in Linux Lite, the Move to trash and Delete options are next to one another and reasonably intuitive just by their names. There is a Trash folder, so when you move something to trash, you're moving it to that folder. When you attempt to Delete something, there is a popup warning you that Delete means permanent deletion from your computer. I like these default settings. Sometimes I want to do the two-step; other times I just want to completely remove.
On suggestion 7, our package managers have been good at managing this. Within our LTS (Long Term Support) model, security or version updates that come from upstream aren't likely to cause instability. As a member of this forum, what I've noticed causing instability is a user removing a lot of default programs, making kernel upgrades on their own, or installing alternative desktop environments. This seems to be unlikely behavior for your folks.
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