Greyghost: The white menu background is the default menu colour for the theme I am using: NuvoClear (https://garage.maemo.org/projects/nuvoclear) Personal Menu uses the system colours for menu background and foreground (unless you choose to override foreground).

For everyone concerned about the removal of manual control, I am designing a new dialog that will allow the user to select whether to use automatic or manual layout. Hopefully I can get this dialog to fit on the screen