Hey everyone, there are a few issues I'd like to address.
The first is the Ubuntu SDK and the Core Apps that can be installed.
The menu does not show all the Core Apps. It does show the browser,
however. I cannot seem to find any of the other applications (i.e. the
calculator).
I posted a bug about it, but as it received no attention it expired...
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1200780
The second is the menu... when an app has a HUGE icon, the menu becomes
ridiculous. I have installed an app called Greenfoot, in hopes of
getting my kids into programming one day. The icon makes the menu take
up approximately 1/4 of the screen. I think there should be a way to
limit the size of icons in the menu, or force icons to display at a
standard size. There are ways to do this in the rules file for debian
packages when making them, so it seems like adding something to the menu
updating script could address this problem. I am not sure how to do
this, or if it is truly possible... but I figured I should post
something here, as there has been a lot of talk about converting Windows
users. And while these issues aren't show stoppers... having an icon
force the menu to take up a large part of the screen would make the user
feel like they are using a buggy OS, that lacks polish.
I know using the box icon theme will address this issue for most
available apps (thank you whoever made the penguin card game icons look
so much better... Rafael?), but Ubuntu is the most popular GNU/Linux
distro and so many third party apps make a deb package for Ubuntu that
can be downloaded and installed from their website (i.e. Greenfoot). To
be fair Unity also shows the greenfoot icon as a huge blob, but it
limits the size shown, and the issue is not present in the side panel,
only the dash when searching for it.
People who come to Lubuntu/Ubuntu will expect an experience similar to
their previous OS, so having something to convert icons to the
appropriate size.
psuedocode:
get(app.iconSize){
if (iconSize > maxIconSize) {resize(iconSize);}
else{return;}
}
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Regards
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