> On 16 Mar 2015, at 17:11, Juraj Kubelka <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have just realized that once someone exportes preferences in Pharo image, > it overrides a lot of things in Moose image, e.g., debugger, icons. I do not > really like it! Everyone who use both Pharo and Moose image will be surprised > and unhappy.
Yes, that is why I never use this export feature, it is broken by design, for me. An image is a persistent world which can hold its own settings. I can imagine some people want some automatic loading in each new image, but that should be opt-in. > If someone exports preferences in Moose, he/she will always have debugger > window at the beginning. I have written about it recently in another post. > > Technically speaking once someone exports preferences, he/she should always > use the same kind of image. > > Talking about recent Spotter preference about “sending usage data”: we have > already changed the preferences the way it uses Pharo settings; but do we > really want it with all the consequences written above? I believe that we can > still change it back for Pharo 4 and improve the whole preference mechanism > in Pharo 5. > > Cheers, > Juraj
