<div dir="ltr">The idea was to address a long-standing issue with Smalltalk devlelopment; unnecessary window proliferation.W<div><br></div><div>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)? </div>
<div><br></div><div>T<span style="font-size:12.727272033691406px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">he benefit is clear and tangible, and t</span>here are mutiple ways to get multiple browsers onto the same object even when the preference is set. <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Why would you be annoyed by less redundancy?</span></div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 1:06 PM, David T. Lewis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lewis@mail.msen.com" target="_blank">lewis@mail.msen.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 10:22:00AM -0700, tim Rowledge wrote:<br>
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> On 28-06-2014, at 8:38 AM, David T. Lewis <<a href="mailto:lewis@mail.msen.com">lewis@mail.msen.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> > In my updated trunk image, if I inspect something that already has an open inspector,<br>
> > that open inspector gets the focus and no new inspector is opened. I'm guessing that<br>
> > someone set a preference for this and maybe I missed the announcement.<br>
> ><br>
> > Is there some way I can make this improvement go away? I can't see anything obvious<br>
> > in the preference browser.<br>
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</div></div>> That sounds like the very annoying ?reuse windows? preference.<br>
><br>
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It certainly was annoying for me.<br>
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It turns out that the preference lives in category "browsing", as opposed to<br>
say "windows".<br>
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I don't know why this got turned on in the trunk stream. It seems like a rather<br>
idiosycratic preference to me.<br>
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Dave<br>
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