Zorin OS 17 Beta Feedback

[swarfendor437]

Well here we are with Zorin 17 with KDE (Plasma) 5.24.7!

The Firefox logo in the Dash was a ? originally, because the inherited icon theme was 'hicolor' - just removed from the dash, went to the Tiled Menu, right-clicked the hicolor icon for Firefox and selected Edit application, then just browsed for the gold-dark icon which is the theme used. In terms of the Zorin Menu button I extracted the icon from usr/share/pixmaps into /home/public. I then screenshot a rectangular region of the desktop of the KDE logo bottom right. Opened both in GIMP and used the colour picker on the golden K and attempted to use the darker gold elements at the bottom of the 'Z' logo, and lighter gold for the top and left of the 'Z' logo in an attempt to match the gold-dark icon theme!

[Viggen66]

Why can´t the Zorin Icon on start button, be colorful this time, instead of grey.

[Viggen66]

How do you install KDE? Why can´t Zorin replace xfce to KDE, XFCE is just too boring.

[zenzen]

I suppose it's a matter of preference. You can change it for something else though:

Is there a way to change the Zorin 16 pro start menu icon?

You may try /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/zorin-menu@zorinos.com/zorin-icon-symbolic < replace this symbolic image with one of your choosing. sudo -i nautilus to elevate permissions.

[Aravisian]

@Viggen66

How do you install KDE?

You can run

sudo apt install kde-full

If you want just the bones:

sudo apt install kde-standard

Or if you want Minimal Install:

sudo apt install kde-plasma-desktop

Lastly, you can just install the Kubuntu desktop environment:

sudo apt install kubuntu-desktop

[swarfendor437]

You change the colour here:

But I do find the colours a bit insipid (pale), sorry Team Zorin!

[swarfendor437]

As well as the terminal, you can install kde-full from Synaptic Package Manager:

[Topaz]

I installed Zorin 17 core beta as a QEMU/KVM virtual machine. Setting type as UEFI failed with "boot loader not found", but a BIOS mode install worked with no problem.

Firefox as a Flatpak? I like it. All the Zorin themes are Flatpaks, so what's one more?

I would suggest including the Extension Manager app by default with Core. There are a lot of Extensions installed by the Zorin team by default, but no way to activate and manage them without that tool. Are users expected to know about their existence and what to do?

Also, no mention of extensions in the Tour app that I could see. Maybe there should be?

[Aravisian]

@Topaz

I would suggest including the Extension Manager app by default with Core.

Is it missing in Zorin OS 17? In Zorin OS 16, it is included in the Extensions Tab of Gnome Control Center.

@Topaz

Firefox as a Flatpak? I like it. All the Zorin themes are Flatpaks, so what's one more?

The Zorin Themes as Flatpaks are included in order to ensure that Flatpak users maintain a consistent theme on Zorin OS. The themes are also APT installed and most users are seeing the APT supplied themes. You only see the Zorin Flatpak Themes in use on Flatpak packages, if you have them.

[Topaz]

@Aravisian

Is it missing in Zorin OS 17? In Zorin OS 16, it is included in the Extensions Tab of Gnome Control Center.

Extensions Manager: It did not show in an Activities Overview search. I installed it from Software.

Control Center? Is that the same as Settings? If so, there is no Extensions section in there.

[zenzen]

Could you expand on this? Some links to evidence would also be highly appreciated.

[Viggen66]

Thanks

[Topaz]

Besides previously-mentioned Extensions Manager, Gnome Tweaks Tool is not installed by default in 17 Core beta. Maybe it will be in final release? Users need this to configure many things in Gnome environment.

[zenzen]

Are you sure "they" are the ones getting paranoid?

[swarfendor437]

Hi Aravisian,
No, Gnome Tweaks (formerly gnome-tweak-tool) didn't exist in 15, and having just booted into my 16 it is not there either. It's a simple case of launching a terminal and entering:

sudo apt install gnome-tweaks

It then appears as Tweaks under Utilities part of the Menu:

and the same in 17:

I had to use Shutter to take the above screenshot because the new one that comes with Zorin 17 doesn't have a timer (delay) function.

And just like 16, Tweaks is limited in 17, unlike Gnome Tweaks in 15!

[Aravisian]

@swarfendor437

No, Gnome Tweaks (formerly gnome-tweak-tool) didn't exist in 15, and having just booted into my 16 it is not there either. It's a simple case of launching a terminal and entering:

I am referring to Gnome-Control-Center (Just shows as Settings in the app menu) > Extensions tab.

[swarfendor437]

Can you screenshot?

[piet-0]

Yeah, I was really hoping they would rework the theme and accent colors a bit on this one.

[ERZ]

lost the internet icon on the bar - how to recover it? Reboot twice - lol - anyway here is a pic of the desktop rocking full kde - it's happier with it than gmome and boots faster. Temp is settling in the 60s - for this old puppy, and considering windows was hi 70s and above - very satisfied so far. It's all staying together, no hang ups, and is even faster on this old machine. Very happy and learned a few things, including installing grub customizer through the terminal - lol

[littlekun]

Zorin-Lite users after reading Z17 feedbacks while waiting for Z17-Lite: