Double tools stack and LookAndFeel

[Richard Gaskin]

Wilhelm Sanke wrote:
> The apparent problem is produced by some sort of an inaccuracy of the 
> "stacks()" function: It lists only mainstacks, but for each opened 
> *substack* of a given mainstack - for some reason that escapes me - the 
> full path of the mainstack and the mainstack is listed again. With 
> Message Box, Navigator, and Standalone Builder open the mctools stack is 
> listed four times.

Sounds like an engine issue.


> Actually, all engine versions prior to 2.6 (from 2.5 and backwards) 
> preserved the lookandfeel applied or automatically set in the IDE.

Nothing related to that has changed in the IDE, and IDE settings are not 
known to the engine.

What changed is that the engine now defaults to native appearance (what 
is mistakenly called "Appearance Manager").

> Another related issue: We lack an "Appearance Manager" option in the 
> Preferences substack.

I believe the term "Appearance Manager" is an error, and have been 
waiting for a useful token to take its place.

No operating system currently has an "Appearance Manager".  It was 
created for Mac OS v7.1, and was carried through to OS X only in Carbon; 
  OS X has no such native system, and neither Windows nor Linux ever did.

I can appreciate the historical reasons for using that term, but for the 
modern world it really should change.

There is a request to change it to "native":
<http://support.runrev.com/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi?id=3279>

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