Rhapsody Developer Release Notes:
Preferences

These notes are for the Developer Release of the Preferences application. You use this application to browse and edit your system preferences. The Preferences application has several control panels, among them:

The Keyboard control panels allows you to set the delay-until-repeat and the key repeat rates. The Keyboard Preference panel also brings up a keyboard panel which you can use to map keys to characters.
The Date & Time control panel allows you to set the system date, time, and time zone.
The Monitor control panel enables you to set screen brightness, gamma value, and minutes until the screen is dimmed.
The Login Item control panel allows you to specify the applications to be launched when you log in.
The Localization control panel allows you to set the preferred order of languages, the keyboard style, the unit of measurement (for word processors, for example), and the default paper size.

Notes Specific to Developer Release

New Features

In this release, each Rhapsody for PowerPC system uses the same display configuration set by MacOS (Blue Box). To change the resolution and depth modes, you need to boot your machine into MacOS, set the display configuration as described in your user's guide, and restart Rhapsody. Note that AppleVision monitors should always be plugged into the ADB port of the computer.

Rhapsody for PowerPC systems in this release initially use the same Date and Time configuration as MacOS, but you can set it in either Rhapsody or MacOS. However, if the correct local time zone is not set in both MacOS and Rhapsody, the two will not be consistent.

Known Problems

The following problems have been identified in the Developer Release. When reporting bugs against the Preferences application, please identify the affected control panel and explicitly associate the bug with the installed release.

Preferences Application

Reference

1673977

Problem

The About Preferences menu item in the Apple menu is disabled.

Keyboard Preferences

Reference

1672091

Problem

The Keyboard Panel does not type the correct extended characters in the text edit field. This also occurs in the Keyboard Panel invoked from the Localization Preference.

Reference	1673874
Problem	In the Keyboard Panel, some key caps are left highlighted when you type quickly in mixed case. This also occurs in the Keyboard Panel invoked from the Localization Preference.

Date and Time

These known problems with the Date and Time Preferences option also apply to the System Date & Time Settings panel in the Clock application.

Reference

1672363

Problem

Not all time zones in /usr/share/zoneinfo are shown in the pop-up menu.

Description

Do not attempt to manually set the /etc/localtime symbolic link to a time zone not shown in the pop-up menu.

Reference	1672963
Problem	The 24-hour checkbox has no effect.

Reference	1673387
Problem	The time field stops ticking when the system time is set to an earlier time using the UNIX date command.
Workaround	Click on any day in the calendar. This causes the Revert and Set buttons to become enabled. Click the Revert button.

Montior

Reference

1673927

Problem

If you use the keyboard navigation keys (tab, backtab and the arrow keys) to change the slider values, Preferences does not save the settings to the persistent user-defaults database. Thus, when you log out and log back in again, the values you had set in the previous session are not saved.

Workaround

Use the mouse to change the slider values.

Reference	1673922
Problem	he Brightness slider sticks at about 1/3 distance from the left end when you use the right arrow key to increase the brightness.
Workaround	Use the mouse to adjust the Brightness slider.

Reference	1673977
Problem	The About Preferences menu item in the Apple menu is disabled.

Reference	1672091
Problem	The Keyboard Panel does not type the correct extended characters in the text edit field. This also occurs in the Keyboard Panel invoked from the Localization Preference.

Reference	1672363
Problem	Not all time zones in /usr/share/zoneinfo are shown in the pop-up menu.
Description	Do not attempt to manually set the /etc/localtime symbolic link to a time zone not shown in the pop-up menu.

Reference	1673927
Problem	If you use the keyboard navigation keys (tab, backtab and the arrow keys) to change the slider values, Preferences does not save the settings to the persistent user-defaults database. Thus, when you log out and log back in again, the values you had set in the previous session are not saved.
Workaround	Use the mouse to change the slider values.

Rhapsody Developer Release Notes: Preferences