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b. Zorin Appearance
This is where you get to decide how your Zorin desktop appears to you and covers;
Desktop tab
Choose from default Windows 7 theme, a Windows 7 Appearance but without the Browser, Files, Software icons next to the menu and no Language Locale in the System Tray, a Gnome Desktop comprising of Search Menu on a panel at the top of the screen together with an application ‘Grid’ similar to what you would find on a Mac. You also get to choose whether you want icons to be shown on your desktop or not from Home, Trash, Mounted Volumes, Network Servers. You can choose whether to have your titlebar buttons (minimise, maximise, close) on the right or on the left, and whether you wish to have the windows animated on minimising maximising.
Theme tab
This allows you to choose your colour combinations for your panel and windows, Choose the application theme of your
choice, Icon theme, and Shell theme – but you may need to install some additional software to apply a new Shell theme – more of that
later.
Fonts tab
Allows you to choose a variety of fonts for different elements to your desktop in respect of Applications, Window Titles, Documents, and Monospace font.
Panel tab
Allows you to move the panel from the bottom to the top, have intelligent autohide on or off, change the height of the panel to make icons more recognisable / easier to see, and most crucially ‘show desktop button’ – I don’t
know why it is not ‘active’ by default as most Windows users I suspect would
expect that to be present! New to Zorin 15 is an Activities Button that if activated appears immediately to the right of the ‘Z’ of the menu.
[To adjust opacity will need the installation of a great little Gnome shell extension: Dynamic Panel Transparency: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1011/dynamic-panel-transparency/
Dynamic Panel Transparency screenshot in action:
