In short, whatever way you look at it, this initialization difficulty is a hard problem.

Morphic makes it a bit harder than expected because a Morph can be considered as active as soon as it is created, not just when it has been opened in the world.

Here is an example:

|t|
t:=TextModel new.
t text:'hello'.
t openWithSpec.
t hasUnacceptedEdits

it shows that our text has unaccepted edits, although the text did not change. ( and there is actually no text decoration indicating this state).

I tried to follow the trace from #openWithSpec to the call that sets #hasUnacceptedEdits:true.

I don't think this is a problem of "initialization is difficult" but a problem of pluging rubric text components as widgets for spec.

The way spec-models are working and the way rubric works, just don't fit well.

(see issue
16873Adding a new Method marks current entry in SendersOf MessageBrowser as dirty

for another example. The cause is that rubric somehow changes this "hasUnacceptedEdits state" when the text actually *did not change*. And this

again is difficult to trace down. And I don't know how to fix this.

Help appreciate