Man, you've been busy Belham, thanks for the thorough testing.
I've not seen any of your earlier issues before ie, network driver not loading or the clock disappearing. Hmm, sorry to ask a basic question, but did the checksum match up?
Now on to the meaty questions you kindly numbered for me:
1) First, when setting up a savefile after first boot, one of the standard popup screens asking you questions is messed up. It concerns the popup asking if you want to encrypt your savefile or not. If you choose 'NO', I don't want encryption, it creates an encryption. If you choose "YES', it doesn't create encryption. Where's the choices of "NORMAL" vs "ENCRYPTED" so it is not confusing?
I'm surprised you got a pop up screen at all. I messed up the shutdown script when I was debugging. I replaced some of them with Carolina's for debugging purposes, but didn't get around to switching them back. Carolina was built before the in X shutdown gui was created so it by passes it completely.
2) URXVT Terminal Control does nothing to urxvt itself, no matter what settings tried
Oh I'm seeing that. Does it normally work in XenialPup? I'll have to check that. It may be because I removed /root/gtkrc.mine and /root/.gtkrc-2.0 because they were messing with XFCE's gtk appearance setting. I actually want to replace urxvt with the xfce4-terminal so I probably won't put too much effort into fixing this.
3) Desktop icons are not produced for mounting anything (SFS, USBs, Hard Drives, etc) despite it being checked to do so in Desktop Settings
I hid them to hide the system mounts being displayed as drives. To re-enable them and unfortunately said system drives go to desktop settings.
4) Every time Palemoon starts, you are greeted with a Popup Error Box that says "No Daemon is Running"...(Palemoon still runs though). This is a bug I first saw reported by rufwoof (Palemoon running in Spot is the problem, as Root you don't see this popup) in the latest Xenial and Phil has provided a fix yet.
5) XFCE tray: Retrovol is not working nor is it showing, and can find no way at present to get it showing without installing other XFCE4-plugins. But DO NOT DO THIS at the moment. Do not install anything from PPM. Why?? If you do, you will be faced with the dreaded BIG problem of....
These are really puzzling as well, if the md5sum checked out ok, I wonder if it's picking up on an old pup save or something, I don't have these issues either. I can package up the XFCE Audio Mixer though as that's on the to do list too.
6) ........the XFCE Menu Snafu! Once you try to install (from PPM) any plugin or anything for XFCE4, the overall XFCE Desktop Environment suddenly goes ape-sh!t and reverts its complete MENU back to some other form and format. Then, you are staring in disbelief as nearly all Menu items either disappear and/or are put elsewhere. XFCE took over 112 .desktop files and changed the "Category" in every one of them. Items that had been appearing correctly before messing with PPM (which has to add a Menu entry when you install something) were either made to vanish totally out of the MENU and/or XFCE put them in a new "Other" menu category. 112 items----112 fricking items
!!---- in the Other Category is not fun, not fun at all.
Ahh, at least there is a simple explanation for this voodoo
After reading about this issue I tested it myself by installing the xfce4-terminal and xfce4-screenshooter. I noticed ppm doesn't pickup on that the dependencies are already installed and grab their own versions. If you tried to install a panel plugin I'd be fairly sure it would have had XFCE Panel as a dependency, grabbed it and wiped out our custom menu that organizes the desktop categories.
Extracting
rg66's menusinto /etc/xdg/menus should restore the old menus. Hopefully you haven't tried fixing them all by hand like I did the first time I saw it
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