Interesting, thanks.
- chromium & co replaced by ff, ok, question of taste
- kcalc an kmymoney brings a lot of KDE things depending of KDE. I try to avoid it in the ISO self
- octopi-notifier-frameworks already replaced in my current profile
- mhwd-chroot must work when run from the menu. I will have a look
- xcursors-menda was a users demand, i will remove it
- i wll see for the cursors, thanks
- The white font color setting for the panel makes the calendar dates unreadable, I changed this to a light grey or gray.
How, please ? I note the same problem.
Yes I know. I wasn't making application suggestions, I was just observing that uninstalling these apps via the command line didn't mess up MPV, uninstalling them from Octopi did. There just has to be a dependency being removed via octopi that MPV needs that pacman is not.
I just find Kmymoney to be the easiest and most intuitive opensource finance application to use, besides who want's a personal finance application installed by a default anyway, as you say a matter personal taste

I didn't check mhwd-chroot from the live media, just from the installed system.
Right click panel > Configure Panel > Click on font color > slide down to desired color, or enter the desired values in the fields provided.
Optionally, you could also manually edit ~/.config/lxqt/panel.conf.