I don’t see why not? If lubuntu chooses to add wing-menu in the final cut, that is. A part of me feels the same, that its semi-redundant. But, I can also see the argument that it also is more configurable layout-wise. Either way, if you guys want that, I can throw wing-menu on my Debian Trixie machine and hack away at it until I get something decent. I know AzumaHazuki on the LXQt Matrix Channel had a theme implementation for Wing-Menu laying around somewhere…might have to ask her about it again
I haven’t heard any nays here so this will probably be the next thing I do. Now’s your time to speak up if you don’t like it!
Obviously, it’s pretty trivial to change back, though, even if you don’t.
Ok it should be dropping in tomorrow’s daily. It requires two packages:
- lubuntu-artwork 25.04.2 which includes the proper theming
- lubuntu-default-settings 25.04.5 which sets Fancy Menu to the default
If you have an existing install, the latter one won’t apply simply by updating it. You have to delete the local ~/.config/lxqt/panel.conf
so that a new config so it can be replaced with the new fancy global one.
If you already have a modified one, that gets more complicated. Just in and replace mainmenu
at the beginning of the plugins
key with fancymenu
in the [panel
n]
section where n is probably 1
unless you have multiple panels.
It doesn’t show up in the live image, by the way, no matter what you do.
Let us know what you think!
FWIW we’ve done some debugging and found a fix for the issue with the live session, but we haven’t yet deployed it because of a design decision we need to make first.
The design decision: Default favorite applications for Lubuntu
One other thing I just discovered: there’s a separate entry in lxqt-globalkeys for hiding and showing the menu, so I’ll have to upload a new lubuntu-default-settings with the mainmenu one removed and with the fancymenu one added.
The above is now in today’s daily along with a wee theme fix that makes the instructions in the favorites area less ugly (not black on dark grey).