Thank you. That works. Although now the icon sits to the left of the Z main menu icon. The extension also gives some useful shortcuts.
The puzzle for me is why don't any of the shell themes I tried swap the activities icon, when I can see that they have an icon available for it. Is that a Zorin thing or a Gnome thing?
But, thank you again.
Hi, I don't know. In terms of the way it works in Zorin I think the devs some time ago had activities as the default for the Super Key and a lot of people prefer the Super Key to launch the menu. So just guessing the Zorin team have made some changes by having an icon instead. But I also suspect the way Gnome is going with each release of a new Shell it makes it harder to customise by the end user (like Windows 11!). That is why I use Plasma instead.
That's the reason I'm using Plasma sometimes and Cosmic DE lately. Feed up with Gnome devs decisions.
This is my youngest's new desktop that she hasn't seen yet!:
Q4OS 5.4 (Aquarius) Debian 12 (Bookworm)
Plasma 5.27.5
Win 11 OS Dark theme.
Wallpaper - just searched for Bamboo Forest Kyoto and downloaded the 6000 x 4000 pixel version.
Windows 11 Pro is shown as "Basic data partition"! 
I don't think I have laughed as much as when Knoppix listed Windows as "Other OS"!
I'm looking forward to trying Cosmic.
Fedora Workstation 40 (gnome) with the Graphite Nord Dark Blue theme (gnome / Plasma) and Qogir icons & cursors from the same developer.
Note: due to the braindead decisions of the maliciously anti-user gnome devs, theming support is patchy and installing dark variants of the Graphite theme on gnome may require you to manually symlink a few files to libadwaita. I was stuck with eye-searing white folder windows until I figured out the cause.
Wallpaper, based on the finale of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann:
Oh, and here are the extensions I had to enable in order to get gnome something close to being an actually usable computer interface:
Q4OS 5.6 (Aquarius), Plasma 5.27. Live Wallpaper given in the description below the video on Vimeo. If your Plasma desktop can't play videos as live wallpaper, you need to get the add-in, SmartER video wallpaper. Enjoy!
Are these Sound-Dropouts coming from the Video or is this from the Live Wallpaper?
Its the loop issue on the video. You can turn audio off in Plasma settings. Guess you could edit the mp4 in KDEnlive and replace with a free heavy rainfall track.
Inspired by Abdulhalim's Zorin DE on Debian, I decided to try with Zorin Lite. It's only the icons and desktop theme, no other utilities included like Zorin Appearance, but I might add those at a later point.
Wallpaper from Tromjaro.
Cool man, but you have 11th gen CPU, why do you use XFCE over Gnome? Mine is 4th gen 
There are many reasons to use literally any other desktop instead of gnome!
Mostly, customisation. The gnome devs quite obviously and publicly hate user customisation. So many settings are intentionally not available to users - including a lot that used to be easy to find have been specifically hidden away over the years. They have no official support for themes. You can barely customise the appearance beyond picking light vs. dark mode and wallpaper.
Gnome also got rid of the "system tray" while publicly stating that they hate the very concept, but that they had no intention of providing any sort of equivalent functionality to replace it. They just wanted it gone. For some reason they chose not to clearly express, instead choosing to just complain about how bad the system tray concept is. It also doesn't have any sort of taskbar for pinned or running programs, which is just dumb. (source)
And I personally hate the top bar thing they half-heartedly copied from Mac without actually making it something truly useful.
Don't forget that the Zorin desktop experience is nothing like gnome. It is heavily modified because the vanilla gnome desktop is fecking useless. I don't know many people running gnome, but every single one of them has at least a dozen community-made extensions and Gnome Tweaks installed to actually make their computer usable.
At that point, why use gnome at all? Well, the only reason I've found was Wayland + touch support for my 2-in-1 tablet, but I am planning to try distro-hopping again this weekend so I can finally uninstall that trash.
I've just been using Gnome for a long time, and I wanted to try XFCE for a change. Plus, XFCE is very easy to setup alongside a window manger like i3, so I get the best of both worlds!
Is the Picture from a Game?
