The Register's second instalment of its Xfce panel customisation guide addresses lingering flaws in the desktop environment's Panel Profiles tool, which lets users mimic the look of macOS, Unity, MATE, GNOME 2 and various Windows layouts. While Part 1 covered installing the tool and its plugins, this follow-up tackles cosmetic and functional issues left behind, such as misaligned menus and status icons, that make the "Cupertino" and "Unity" presets feel unfinished out of the box.

The guide walks through fixes accessible via each panel's right-click Preferences menu: adding a transparent, expanding separator after the AppMenu plugin corrects the Unity layout's icon spacing, while unchecking "Expand" on the AppMenu plugin fixes the Cupertino layout's menu alignment. It also recommends hiding the Whisker menu's text label for a cleaner Mac-style look, and installing the xfce4-docklike-plugin via apt to replace the default Window Buttons app-switcher, giving users a combined dock of pinned launchers and running-app indicators similar to macOS's taskbar.