Fancy Menu as default?

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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

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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.

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Ok it should be dropping in tomorrow’s daily. It requires two packages:

  1. lubuntu-artwork 25.04.2 which includes the proper theming
  2. 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 [paneln] 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. :confused:

Let us know what you think!

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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.

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25

The design decision: Default favorite applications for Lubuntu

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26

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.

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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).

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28

Honestly that also was an accessibility issue.

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You mean the very nature of using Super to show and hide the menu is a problem? Could you elaborate more on that?

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I mean the gray on gray really hard to read text was really hard to read.

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Oh yeah, no that was disastrous! I did the commit but @jfaulk1230 made it work!

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32

Please make Fancy Menu standard. And please move categories to the left in standard as this simply makes more sense.

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I don’t really have any particularly strong feelings about this, but that does seem slightly more logical. Anyone else have thoughts on this?

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default-settings 25.04.8 will have the following:

[fancymenu]
buttonsAtTop=false
categoriesAtRight=false
filterClear=true
showText=false
type=fancymenu

I also populated favorites with Featherpad, Lubuntu Update, PCManFM-Qt and QTerminal.

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I am a simple Lubuntu user since 18.04 and I would like to give me 2 cents about this.

I like the classic menu as it is simple and ‘it just works’.

It seems that I am in a minority so at the least I would ask to make sure that users can revert to the classic one if fancymenu is chosen by default. If it is already possible I would like to know how.

Thanks for the work you are doing on Lubuntu.

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Yep. Both plugins are already part of the lxqt-panel package. Just remove fancymenu and add mainmenu through the panel’s typical controls. The manual covers this here (just scroll down to the part about widgets).

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