Hi,
The tracker seems to ignore preference set in the apearence preflat like menu font and colors.
I’m shure there is a good explenation for it, just wondering.
Regards,
Remco
Hi Johannes,
Tracker doesn’t respect colour settings, I added that to ticket #10840. It does respect the font settings, however. You have to restart Tracker for that to take effect.
Regards,
Humdinger
I usually just press Control-Meta-Delete, end the Tracker and Deskbar processes, and click “Restart The Desktop” to apply the settings, as apparently, they don’t fully apply until doing that. I hope that helps…
Tnx guys for the work arounds,
But it does not explain anything.
I susoect it got something to do with backwards compatibility
just curious.
Remco
Hi Johannes,
strange that the font setting works here, but not for you… Maybe that was some fixed in a later revision than you’re using. I’m currently on hrev47380.
Regards,
Humdinger
Restarting tracker does help indeed, but wat is Control-Meta-Delete …?
Ctrl Alt Del ???
Remco
The formal modern-day definition of a “meta” key is: “a function key on a keyboard that is activated by simultaneously holding down a control key.” But I digress, because after using computers for 19 years, this isn’t entirely correct.
Historically, Sun keyboards had a real Meta key which looked like a diamond star, but today’s keyboards don’t have this key anymore. After the demise of this keyboard, Meta is now synonymously interchanged with mention of the Option/Alt key in special instances or most commonly with the “Super” key, also known as the Apple Command key. Most Gnu/Linux distributions with certain desktop environments, such as KDE SC 4, will label the Windows/Super key as “Meta”, while Gnome 2 & 3 distinguishes between “Super” and “Meta”, treating them as totally separate keys.
Why I mentioned “Meta” and NOT Option or Alt is because Haiku maps functions that would be Super/Command/Meta functions on a normal computer to the Option key. This, of course, can be changed, but unlike Windows 9x/NT, where Ctrl-Alt-Del is truly that, on Haiku, Alt/Option has been remapped to a special key function, and therefore is “Meta” in reality. When I complete the distribution I’m working on, (though the Alt key is set this way on Haiku for historic reasons), the “command” key will be mapped to Super by default instead to avoid such confusion.
I hope this answers your question for you. Otherwise, thanks for the correction; it probably did confuse some people.
Ok
Tnx for the info.
RJ