Zorin 18 Beta feedback/discussion thread

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Longer feedback from me after playing around with Zorin 18 Core Beta in a VM :slight_smile:

  1. Window Tiling
    I absolutely love this, even though I am not someone who uses it all the time. The top layouts window works exactly like the one in Win11 (not sure if all the layouts are the same but that's not important since you can customize them). I also discovered right clicking on an open application window will give us tiling options with layouts shown, which is amazing! Not sure if this is present in Win11, but I will check. It's good to see Zorin keeping up with good parts of what Windows has to offer, it will make the transition for Win users more seamless.

  2. New accent colors
    I love the fact that we got 2 more accent colors (Yellow & Brown). It's an improvement, however I'd like more😅 I would love to have pink and teal as well. Would it be at all possible to also let the user pick the color they want, and then apply it everywhere? Not sure how difficult that would be to implement with the current structure in place.

  3. No more cursor shakiness
    Before Zorin 18 Core Beta, I tested Zorin 17.3. in a VM on the same laptop, and Wayland sessions had cursor shakiness that Windows 11 on that laptop did not. Switching to X11 solved the issue. In Zorin 18 issue is not present at all, not even in Wayland. Would be great if this is fixed for my older laptop as well!

  4. Windows not closing
    I encountered a bug where I would close a window, but instead of it disappearing from the screen it would just remain there and look color-muted, like the focus has been taken off of it. I saw one user say this has been fixed now, so hopefully it won't happen again.

  5. Web App not displaying its icon
    After creating a web app using the new application, it will show itself in start menu with its custom icon, but it doesn't show it in the taskbar when the app is opened, instead a gear icon is shown.

  6. Easy admin privileges
    Previously when I edited any files in usr/share/themes, I would need to open the Terminal, type sudo gedit file.txt and then edit it like that, which was kind of annoying to do every time. Now I can simply open the file normally, and upon saving changes instead of telling me I can't do that, it will ask for my password and apply the change!

  7. Animations don't work
    I'm guessing this is somehow due to me testing in a VM.

  8. Zorin themes work properly with Flatpaks
    I LOVE this part!! Now when I override themes for flatpaks and set a Zorin theme, it applies without it looking janky and with weird padding, spacing and sizing issues (see here)! It's a shame I can't change the theme with the dark theme toggle in quick settings, but need to use Flatseal instead though.

I will maybe add more things later here💖

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