23-10-2019, 06:19 PM
No, Mate has THREE different menus of its own. Weirdly the default one seems most awkward. See Panel Properties.
I don't use desktop shortcuts at all now, except for mounted removable drives and network shares. I have an autosizing, autohiding panel on each of the four sides.
Top is "start menu", workspaces, running programs and some short cut icons like terminal.
Bottom has tasktray (BT, Speaker, LAN/WiFi, Calendar/clock), status icons, disk manager etc.
Left = Local. Shortcuts to local stuff used everyday inc. lock/log out/shutdown
Right = Remote. Shortcuts to Browsers, Remote Terminal, Remote file transfer, Software Manager.
Software Manager is to be preferred to Synaptic Package Manager unless stuff isn't in it. Metapackages (incs of all bits) clearer.
Adding a desktop short cut is pretty simple.
I don't use desktop shortcuts at all now, except for mounted removable drives and network shares. I have an autosizing, autohiding panel on each of the four sides.
Top is "start menu", workspaces, running programs and some short cut icons like terminal.
Bottom has tasktray (BT, Speaker, LAN/WiFi, Calendar/clock), status icons, disk manager etc.
Left = Local. Shortcuts to local stuff used everyday inc. lock/log out/shutdown
Right = Remote. Shortcuts to Browsers, Remote Terminal, Remote file transfer, Software Manager.
Software Manager is to be preferred to Synaptic Package Manager unless stuff isn't in it. Metapackages (incs of all bits) clearer.
Adding a desktop short cut is pretty simple.
