"I will concede that the contextual menu is incomplete. We will work on
that. In the meantime, the keybindings work as in the classic workspace.

But, what are the many features that the workspace had and you miss?"

from right click menu I use -> Copy , Paste , find , browse it, sender of
it, implementors of it, references to it,.
from down arrow menu I use -> Change title, create window group, previous
contents (that last on i see that playground has it)

"What do you find weird about "Meta"?
I agree that "All ref" should be better explained.
But, what do you think these tabs mean?"

Meta means nothing to me, maybe you should name it Meta-Class the problem
however is that the IDE does not use that naming anywhere else apart from
mentioning it in PBE. No idea what all references means, maybe its the
instance variables. Is there an aggreement now in Pharo to call the class
side of a class a Metaclass ? Its important to decide on these thing on a
global scale or else you have confusion.

"If so, clicking on an entry, is the correspondent of inspecting that
object. In the "State" tab, we also provide self to denote the same object
as the one represented in the tab. This was borrowed from the classic
inspector, but maybe it is confusing in the context of the new inspector.
In any case, if you continue clicking on self, you will indeed get the same
object over and over. But, that does not mean that the inspector went in a
loop"

yes but why allowing the same pane to respawn when clicking self it makes
not sense to me. Its also confusing for a begineer.

"But, what do you mean by instance side tab?"

I assume the instance side of the class is the "methods" tab ? no ?

"Which one did you like?"

I like the basic idea of trying to extend workspace with much more
functionality and uniting all tools like inspector and system browser under
one roof. I like also that comments get a new separate tab and that you
trying to support pillar.

The State name is vague, since state can mean both instance and class
variables.

"I do not understand this part. Can you explain in more details?"

this -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGJZeajjWGU

"It is not different thinking. It is a different use case :). The Meta tab
shows the class of the object you inspect. If you inspected a class, then
the inspector also provides you a list of its methods. "

I am talking about the methods tab which also a confusing name for a tab,
what kind of methods ? instance or class . I assume from the existence of
Meta that those are instance methods . So why methods tab is not similar to
Meta tab ? why it show only the method names and not the class and its
inheritance chain and the method source of the method selected from the
list of methods exactly as Meta tab is doing ?

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