Created attachment 5093 Annotated panel Going through the settings manager in order: With the Xfce-dusk theme, logging into Gmail is tricky as the text is white on white. - Just finished writing this bug report, and while searching for this to make sure I haven't overlooked something, it seems I'm not the only one who's found this: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=129807 I set the background to solid black, and the text under the icons on the desktop isn't visible because of this. An option to set this colour (which might be hiding somewhere) would be nice, or something like automatically choosing the text colour based on maximum contrast. It's tricky to specify the exact number of pixels for panels - it seems to have a few snap values. I couldn't find a way to have some things at one end of a panel, and some at the other. It would be useful if, in particular, the Windows Buttons applet could be made to fill as much space as it can, as it's the only part of my panel setup that varies in how much space it uses. It'd also be useful if Whiskers Menu would allow other Applets to either side of it. To give more of an idea of what I'm on about, I'll attach a screenshot. In Window Manager, there is no way to fully disable edge resistance for the top of the screen. Alt-dragging allows some flexibility, but it's impossible to drag a window up using the title-bar. I can't get the sound to play through both my laptop's speakers and through headphones at the same time, but this could be an issue in Mint. Compared with the problems and limits that other DEs have, this is IMO the best one in terms of both functionality and aesthetics, and the fact that it's lightweight makes that more impressive. I hope this helps and that Xfce achieves world domination.
"I couldn't find a way to have some things at one end of a panel, and some at the other. It would be useful if, in particular, the Windows Buttons applet could be made to fill as much space as it can, as it's the only part of my panel setup that varies in how much space it uses." - Whoops, figured out how to do that, and it was obvious the whole time. It's the Separator panel item, and I found this out by looking at the default layout.
First of all, one bugreport per issue. It is totally impossible to deal with a bugreport like the one you reported here. Then to your issues. 1) That is a general problem with dark themes and browsers, if the colors aren't explicitly defined in the website. So nothing to fix there. 2) The size for panels can also be modified if the scale has focus with the keyboard arrows, if you need single-pixel steps. 3) You can add a separator to the panel and set it's property to "expand". 4) Whisker-menu and all other things depend on how many rows you specify in the panel settings. 5) Not really sure what sort of dragging and edge resistance you're talking about here or what the concrete problem might be. 6) Why would you want sound both out of your headphones and speakers? Either way, you can probably configure that with alsamixer on the commandline.