> It will mean that the OpenBeOS preference panels won't be swap-able > with > the BeOS R5 ones - something that I would have liked to have happen. That won't be true, most preferences applications already write their data in flattened BMessages - these are easy to rebuild and to understand. The few ones which doesn't do this (where the Scrollbar preferences really doesn't matter at all), may not be interchangeable. Adios... Axel.