How should the 'Z' icon behave?

Ok, no problem. Then you are on Gnome Desktop, not XFCE in that case.
The Lite version uses XFCE.
I see you amended your profile and also that you added your suggestion here:

In the meantime, I wonder of any other Zorin OS Pro users are willing to change layouts and double check this to see if they get the same result.(I use the Lite "XFCE" desktop.:wink: )