[squeak-dev] The Trunk: SUnitGUI-cmm.78.mcz

Tobias Pape Das.Linux at gmx.de
Sun Dec 29 14:32:33 UTC 2019


> On 29.12.2019, at 15:06, Jakob Reschke <forums.jakob at resfarm.de> wrote:
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> Hi Chris,
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> Am So., 29. Dez. 2019 um 08:17 Uhr schrieb Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com>:
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> Even though we know why, to the casual observer, it appears to be a "bug" and, from the sense that SUnit browser WAS developed as a "global" singleton browser, it is.
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> Why do you think it was meant to be a singleton browser? I never thought of it that way. Casual observers who know about this preference and remember it when something opens or not might not be so casual after all -- but that aside, whether they have problems with the former behavior or not entirely depends on this singleton expectation.
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> > This commit makes it impossible to have multiple TestRunners opened side by side. For me, this is clearly a drawback.  Why force unnecessary singletons?
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> Heh, nothing is forced.  You can use the green halo or turn off the preference.  Do you use the preference?  I thought I was the only one.  :)
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> I have it turned on since your last advocacy for it a few months ago.
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> On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 8:22 AM Jakob Reschke <forums.jakob at resfarm.de> wrote:
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> Even if it were not possible to open the tool with a preselection, you will still assemble a test suite through manual selection.
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> Reuse Windows depends on the pre-selection, but if a certain model *can't*, the idea is that Reuse Windows should at least do *something* for this browser..
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> I suppose this is up to interpretation and discussion. If I open a system browser via the world menu, I always get a new one without selection, and it feels right to me. Why should it be different with the test runner which also opens without selection? If I do a search for a specific class and already have a browser for it, it gives me the existing system browser, alright, I might have forgotten it. Since I cannot open the test runner on a specific class via the GUI    (or can I?) my interpretation of the expected behavior is the opposite of yours: that I should always get a new browser. Does not feel like a bug to me.
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> Green halo has many uses...  :)
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> Yes it does, but I always feel somehow cheating or working around something, being on a meta level, when I have to use it on tools. ;-)
> 
> Please revert, and in my opinion this should have gone through the inbox first.

+1 hereā€¦

> 
> Kind regards,
> Jakob
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