Menus do not hold font settings

[bitigchi]

Steps:

• Change menu font to Noto Sans Display (Medium)
• Restart the system
• Open a menu in Tracker, and see the new font
• Close the menu
• Reopen the menu

Expectations:

• The new font setting should be retained

Results:

• Menu font reverts to Noto Sans Display Regular

[bitigchi]

Expected font

[bitigchi]

Font after reopening the menu

[bitigchi]

Rebuilding the font cache does not help. Fonts do not retain in Deskbar, HaikuDepot and drop-down menus as well.

[humdinger]

I cannot reproduce this with Beta2, 32bit.
As I cannot see the difference between Noto Sans Display Regular and Medium, I chose Semi-Bold. The setting is kept over Tracker restarts and reboots.

[pulkomandy]

Possibly related to #14424 ?

[bitigchi]

This one doesn't need a restart to revert back to Regular weight. Just hover over the menus back and forth, it just disappears.

[humdinger]

Just hover over the menus back and forth, it just disappears.

Not for me... apart from Web+'s "Bookmarks" menu items which are always "Regular" for some reason.

[pulkomandy]

Indeed, in fact the menu font uses a completely different codepath than the other fonts and is saved in a different file. Apparently a legacy from BeOS where it was in the menu preferences. However I see no reason the setting would be reset (it's in BMenu::sMenuInfo if anyone else wants to look, and initialized using get_menu_info to get it from app_server).

[pulkomandy]

Web+ bookmark items are custom subclass of BMenuItem and I may not have thought of using the correct font there.

[bitigchi]

Deskbar font changes when it's a font other than Noto Sans Display, but if I change the weight, it doesn't apply, it's always Noto Sans Display Regular.

[madmax]

This sounds a lot like #17229, and I've been able to reproduce it with the patch for that issue reverted. Can you confirm it has also been working for you?