This report covers hrev59672 through hrev59753.
jscipione fixed some regressions in Tracker causing the scroll position to not be set properly when navigating between directories, and dropping files onto other files not working. He also fixed drag and drop of icons onto views with a different icon size, restored the Trash pose on the Desktop in file panels, refactored the drag bitmap’s appearance, and more.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/waddlesplash/2026-06-12-haiku_activity_contract_report_may_2026/
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Ahoy devs !
Thank you for your efforts - it was good to read now summarized, and also when those updates were still just merged patches.
My long awaited fix in StyledEdit finally partly done - font selection separated from style settings. That’s good, as this way more easily to reach the settings part. Earlier, if my mouse pointer slided away from the rolling down menu upward to settings .. I could restart the long scrolling up again as I have installed some dozens of fonts - that scrolling still not menagable, so takes long time to select different fonts.
I am not sure what would be a good solution, it would be better, if menu would be divided to
Favorite fonts
(initially that installed with Haiku, but really a short list of used fonts, max. a dozen)
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Add fonts to Favorites
Remove fonts from Favorites
Addition would open in a selector window where easily overview and select from fonts - no longtime scroll needed, even if dozens of fonts installed. Sorry I have no clear picture about it.
Removal just just the list of favorite fonts with ticking selection and a Cancel and Remove button.
If it won’t happen, at least Style get replaced to Fonts in the order of the menu, if not too much to ask this.
Thank you in advance - 
Thank you everyone for your hard work.
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Well, I’m very curious how the rewriting of app_server will be given as detailed in
Haiku Activity and Contract report, 2026 June
as that new development started here with a fix
waddlesplash refactored how screen configurations are saved and restored in app_server, fixing the screen resolution not resetting properly after applications that change the resolution are quit or killed.
and followed more interesting rewrite until new regressions wiped out - and from notes added on cgit - basically resulted in a better app_server to serve out better wider range of apps.
I know as I was related to the Workspaces’ resolution issue, but basically not to the brightness adjustment kind – as I do not set it frequently, so it had not turned out to me ther’s an issue about setting the display brightness … until I had not saw the related ticket and tried out immediately : am I related to ?..
Yeah I was – I got the same KDL as it was described.
Now we can set the brightness again and me with even with key-combos, thanks to help from MadMax, and resolution issue also solved to have been permanent through (re)boots.
So I’m excited to read the next report 
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What about an automatic “most recently used” group of fonts instead of user having to setup it manually to get in the end a similar result: getting his preferred fonts eaiser to access than others fonts?
Yepp, that also can work, then the only risk if the person often use different fonts. In that case it could work as ‘Recent lauched apps’ on Deskbar – we can set how many of them can appear. 
May someone coding - this one at least - eventually, into StyledEdit.
Thank you to think over the solution.
Do fonts drag and drop? For most apps it would be easier than a font list in the menus. Like DescCalc does colors.
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Nice Idea, I like it…
We have FontBoy to see/check our fonts…
Would be great to just drag’n drop the file onto StyleEdit to use it!
Standardizing a BMessage to specify a font to use, like family name, style and optionally size so that a third party fonts “palette” app(s).can be used by user?
Why not, but beware, an app supporting to use multiple fonts should be able to be used without the user needing to discover, install and use a second app. I mean StyledEdit, per se, should allow user to select/change fonts in a standalone way, even if it doesn’t propose advanced ways to manage that selection itself.
Doesn’t mean that we can’t, indeed, add support to a standardized way to receive fonts “ref” from others apps like Haiku already do support for colours or files refs.
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So, for example, Fontboy could be used for StyleEdit only?
Would it work then?
If you open StyleEdit you can open FontBoy only then from within?
Do I get it?
No, no.
If a standardized BMessage is defined, like for colour ref drag and drop, then an app like StyledEdit could support dropped font “ref”, and app like FontBoy could be enhanced to allow drag and drop of a font ref.
In no way I’m for locking FontBoy to StyledEdit or any other multi fonts editors. What I’m saying is supporting a font ref drop message should be an extra, but app like StyledEdit must still be useable without it, aka still offering a builtin way to select a font and size, even if it current implementation with menu and submenus is not optimized for large set of fonts.
Supporting a font “ref” message will just allow users to use, if they need or wants to, better apps to manage a large set of fonts, with most recently used, favorites, preview, automatic family grouping etc, and to select one via a drag and drop into an editor app supporting multiple fonts.
Exactly like some graphical apps has their own color selector but also could accept a color selection via a drag and drop message from another, more specialized colors palettes apps.
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