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Rhapsody Developer Release Copyright (C)1998 by Apple Computer, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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 Items 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

On Power Macintosh computers, you can use the Monitor control panel to change the resolution and depth modes of your monitor. Changes will take effect when you log out. Note that AppleVision monitors should always be plugged into the ADB port of the computer. On Intel-processor computers, you must use /System/Administration/Configure.app to change the monitor resolution and depth.

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.

In this release, there is no control panel for customizing the Apple Menu.

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.

Appearance Preferences

Reference	2220630
Problem	Clicking the Desktop tab pane crashes Preferences.app if a non-existent desktop pattern is specified in user defaults.
Workaround	You can inspect the desktop pattern specified in the user defaults by typing the following command in a Terminal window: defaults read NSGlobalDomain DeskTopImage To prevent the Desktop tab pane from crashing, you must remove the user default by typing the following command in a Terminal window: defaults delete NSGlobalDomain DeskTopImage

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.

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.

Monitor

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.