[chimerax-users] Some preferences will reset

[Eric Pettersen]

Hi all,
	In order to improve the modularity and maintainability of the ChimeraX code, the way some settings/preferences were handled was changed so that the code for that setting/preference could be kept in the appropriate tool bundle rather than in the ChimeraX core.  A consequence of this change is that for settings/preferences that moved, they will revert to their initial default values rather than any values you may have saved for them. This will only happen for builds later than today, and furthermore if you go back to an older build it will still have your old values.  For most settings/preferences this is not a big deal — you can easily just change them and save them again.  The one setting that may be a little tricky is the “Startup commands” setting since there might be a lot of text saved in that one.  Nonetheless, as long as you don’t delete your old build you can just start that and copy the commands from that into the new build.
	The preference categories that got moved are:

Clipping
Distances
Labels
Log
Startup
Trackpad
Window

—Eric

	Eric Pettersen
	UCSF Computer Graphics Lab



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