I just switched to the LXQt Lubuntu. I thought the LXDE environment had a tool that let you modify the default theme (ex. the top bar of windows).
I use a dark'ish solid color background. 19.04s black bar doesn't work well for me. I don't see anyway to change it in LXQt. Thoughts being new to LXQt: 1. The installer, when it asked if I wanted to replace the existing Lubuntu (or install alongside) was unnerving to me. The old installer seemed more straightforward to me. The way this one gives you a gparted'ish display of partitions, I was a little rattled about accepting what it was going to do. If I recall, it showed sda1, sda2, et. al. for the various partitions. For the most part, that matched what I understood about my disk. But, the existing Lubuntu partition seemed out of place, and didn't have the sda identifier. Something about that seemed almost like *too much* information, or not enough. I felt like I was being asked to confirm more than I needed to, without enough information to do it. 2. Something about the way the mouse scroll wheel seems unnecessarily glam. I found the option to turn it down to 1 line per movement. That helped a lot. But, still, compared to how the scroll wheel behaves in application windows.... something feels different. I wish that wouldn't be the case. It doesn't feel intuitive to have to readjust your interaction with your computer depending on which window you're in. I know that apps can add "coolness" to the scroll wheel too. But, most don't. I wish all wouldn't. And I wish LXQt didn't. (Something about it, even when it's turned down to 1, which should be the default IMO, feels different than scrolling other apps.). 3. The theme seems a little large'ish compared to LXDE. It has a "feel" like those UIs designed to be the same on a pad, phone, desktop (which never seem to be great for any platform.). It's hard to give real examples. - I installed KeepassXC. The hidden password field has enormous bubbles (instead of subtle ellipses). - A few things our of proportion that way. Like the file manager. The navigator pane on the left seems like it takes up a lot of margin. Mounted devices almost certainly don't show more than one character of the device name because the -^ button is even more margined away from the browsing window. - The way it says "places" twice (one is a control, the other a label) seems unnecessary. Wouldn't the control's current setting serve as a label? - The menu bar's text seems large (file manager, featherpad). Things like that seem to be too large to me (disproportional). Maybe I'm just averse to change and will get used to it. I should have participated in betas and offered options sooner. (Hopefully it's not bad to share my impressions now.). Mark
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