Feedback for ZorinOS 12.4 + Suggestions for Zorin OS 13

Axel7 wrote:Hi!
I use ZorinOS 12.4 Lite on my very old computer (Pentium 4 2.8Ghz, 1,5GB RAM (512mb, +1GB upgrade), nVidia GeForce FX5200). It's very fast and I can use many new softwares for my old computer. There is still a problem for the GPU nVidia GeForce FX5200, I can't view correctly videos (YouTube for example) due to the nouveau driver. And I can't install the nVidia GeForce 173 driver in ZorinOS 12. Nvm, so personally, ZorinOS is the best distro of Linux, he works on many computers (and old-computers), I love it! ZorinOS is more better Windows 10. So I have many suggestions for the next version of ZorinOS: ZorinOS 13.

Some suggestions for ZorinOS 13 Lite: We don't know if it will be 13 - If LTS it usually goes up in 3's but as it is a 'big leap' it might be 18 as it is based on 18.04
-> New design of the User Interface:
- A new UI for the file explorer (Nautilius of Ubuntu 18.04 is great). If it's possible, add an Animated Aurora Preview Panel for the explorer like Windows Longhorn Lite is based on xfce = Thunar File manager - if you installed Nautilus you would end up having to install Gnome DE in almost its entirety!
- A new UI for the WIFI Menu, Calendar and the Sound Menu of the task bar (I will give an example)
- New modern design icons Zorin already uses Paper (Apple-esque look) but I prefer 'hicolor'
- A new icon for the window button: Restore/Maximize (I will give an example) Use synaptic to search for xfce - install everything and see how long your window manager options become
- The start menu customizable (Switch from the black Start Menu to the white Start Menu or make it more transparency) Go to Opendesktop.org and search for xfce themes
- Animations (Window animations, start menu animations, etc...) Not good for someone with accessibility issues!
- Some blur effect like Aero, or a new modern and design theme Install Cinnamon DE
- Possibility to change the theme of ZorinOS and have many themes for ZorinOS 13. For example switch to Modern Theme (ZorinOS 12 theme) to Aero (for example), or something like that. Cinnamon DE again!
- Possibility to change the theme of the cursor (easy method: GUI method, modifiable in Settings)You can already do this in settings, BUT you have to install the cursor theme to usr/share/icons first: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=13737#p61538

-> Speed up the Startup of ZorinOSThis will in part be dependent (in part) on how big the GNU/Linux kernel continues to grow
-> New features, like Desktop-Gadgets (like Windows Desktop-Gadgets of Windows 7 or Windows Side-Bar of Vista), or some cool stuffs Opendesktop or gnome-look.org
-> A new Apps Store, because the current apps store doesn't have enough apps, and a good home page. The next major release will be flatpak and snap ready (https://snapcraft.io) - but will still need Synaptic Package Manager for those little tweaks IMHO
-> Dynamic Theme: Day = Light theme, Night: Dark Mode/theme (a feature like macOS Mojave). (+Live-Day wallpaper like macOS Mojave for Core Edition) Install Enlightenment - and watch your Zorin Lite break big time!
-> If possible, the lite version will come the same day of the release of Zorin OS 13 Core, Ultimate. Core is the 'core business' of Zorin so I find that highly unlikely!

So there are some examples:
Animated Aurora Preview Pannel : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnCM5z9JYBQ
Calendar Menu of the taskbar : http://imgur.com/kBPTvuyl.png
WIFI Menu of the taskbar (there are 4 images, they represents an animation with a color gradient : http://imgur.com/GuXxe4ol.png ; http://imgur.com/89AAldNl.png ; http://imgur.com/FWDep3el.png ; http://imgur.com/rxhpfurl.png



Thanks for reading! And again: ZorinOS is the best Linux distro!