> 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


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