Some usability issues...

Hi there -- I have been a Zorin OS Ultimate user since v.6 and recently purchased the v.9 Ultimate ISO. However, I'm contemplating removing it in place of Mint 17 for the following reasons/areas of concern:
- When clicking on menu items (or indicators with menus) in AWN, menus appear and disappear immediately; sometimes it takes 4or 5 clicks before I can get a menu to stay displayed. I've tried modifying the mouse settings and removing animation, but nothing seems to help this.
- The various menu options/styles are all rather poor/ugly, in comparison to Cinnamon's, Mate's Mint Menu, or XFCE's Whisker. Even the Gnomenu is nicer than the Zorin options.
- The AWN bar sometimes loses its right-side indicator icons for no reason. As a new user, I can imagine that this would be a bit irritating.
- I've tried the other "looks," but the Windows 7 theme seems to be the best for my purposes. I'm wondering if I shouldn't just get rid of AWN completely.

Before moving to another distro, however, I am wondering if any of you have found "solutions" or workarounds to these issues.
All the best,
Glen
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ThinkPad x230t, 16GB RAM, i5 with 500GB Samsung EVO SSD

You could:

1. Install GnoMenu

2. Install Cairo-Dock (set to Panel mod)

3. Download the GnoMenu Add-in - then you have access to all the different menu looks at your disposal.

Just to add, Gizmuntu did manage to add Mate to this latest release!

Gizmuntu has also provided som excellent revamped Win7 menus/themes for you to download too!

No Need ....both Mate and Cinnamon work very well within Zorin OS 9 !!!!
That is stability relative to [ Ubuntu 14.04 ] only.
If you need direction on how.
Leave word and I'll be happy to get you sorted in the right direction.

Regards
Gizzy

Thanks for the feedback and offer to help. I'll search your past posts Gizmuntu -- or do you have a web page with the themes/directions for installing Mate/Cinnamon?
Bye for now,
Glen