Hi,

The problem is that the export exports all values, not the delta between what was chosen and what comes by default. In our case, if I want to choose to always send the anonymous usage information for Spotter, I also have to commit to using a dedicated set of icons. This constraint does not match well the use case.

I think we should be able to save selected settings, or just the settings that we modified explicitly.

Cheers,

Doru

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 5:23 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu> wrote:

> On 16 Mar 2015, at 17:11, Juraj Kubelka <juraj.kubelka@gmail.com> 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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