The idea was to address a long-standing issue with Smalltalk devlelopment;
unnecessary window proliferation.W

One nice thing about that preference is you can easily tell when two
objects refer to the same object.  By inspecting the reference from the
first place, you get the inspector window, then inspect it from the second
place, did it open a new window? (different reference) or re-top the
original inspector (same reference)?

The benefit is clear and tangible, and there are mutiple ways to get
multiple browsers onto the same object even when the preference is set.  Why
would you be annoyed by less redundancy?


On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 1:06 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 10:22:00AM -0700, tim Rowledge wrote:
> >
> > On 28-06-2014, at 8:38 AM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> >
> > > In my updated trunk image, if I inspect something that already has an
> open inspector,
> > > that open inspector gets the focus and no new inspector is opened. I'm
> guessing that
> > > someone set a preference for this and maybe I missed the announcement.
> > >
> > > Is there some way I can make this improvement go away? I can't see
> anything obvious
> > > in the preference browser.
> >
> > That sounds like the very annoying ?reuse windows? preference.
> >
>
> It certainly was annoying for me.
>
> It turns out that the preference lives in category "browsing", as opposed
> to
> say "windows".
>
> I don't know why this got turned on in the trunk stream. It seems like a
> rather
> idiosycratic preference to me.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
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