A few Lubuntu Menu things...

[Eric Bradshaw]

I'd like to chime in with my agreement on the icon sizes in the menu 
before the message below gets lost too far down in the shuffle. There 
were certain games (and I believe maybe an educational app or two) I had 
originally installed for my kids that I then removed specifically 
because of icon size. It was more than just not aesthetically pleasing; 
my kids would think (know?) there was something "wrong" with the computer.

If I hadn't been installing a slew of stuff at once (and none of them 
were "must have" apps) - and my own kids were the only people I was 
worried about installing for; I would've made my own icon (or at least 
resized them) for these. I would think what you have to go through 
sometimes for .desktop entry files and icon creation would be pretty 
scary for a newcomer. Eric ------------------------------ Message: 3 
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 10:35:52 -0600 From: Israel 
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<lubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> Subject: A few Lubuntu Menu things... 
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charset=ISO-8859-1 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;} }