> On 28 Aug 2016, at 00:55, Cyril Ferlicot D. <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Le 27/08/2016 à 14:32, Esteban Lorenzano a écrit :
>> yes, some years ago I made a package for this. 
>> later Ben tried something similar with the user manager.
>> none of those approaches worked as general approach because you need to 
>> “close” a lot of things…  (not just the spotter… which by the way, NEEDS to 
>> have a setting, no idea who answered you that but he is wrong), and image is 
>> not prepared for that.
>> 
> 
> I checked the issue tracker and it was closed because people though that
> we need a better way to disable shortcuts in general and that it is not
> specific to Spotter.
> 
> https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/17041/We-should-be-able-to-disable-GTSpotter
> 
> But we still cannot disable/enable Spotter without hacking into KM :(
> I think that sometimes it is good to think about a generic solution, but
> we still can get a temporary one because everyone cannot wait 3 years
> that the good one works. We can still let a flag "Remove this temporary
> solution after we finish <issueNumberHere>”.

ok, I will re-open it because this is not about shourtcuts, is about enabling 
or disabling a tool. The fact that this tool is called with a shortcut is just 
a detail… and also is incomplete: a good setting should also remove spotter 
from world menu, for example.

Esteban

> 
> 
>> of course is still possible :)
>> 
>> anyway, today I would tackle a solution in a different way: I would open my 
>> app morph on an SDL2 window and not touch the word at all (opening a 
>> headless image). This is not possible in windows because when you do 
>> “headless” it just laugh at you, but is doable in the not-so-long term.
>> 
>> Esteban
>> 
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