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Prior to R8.5, “Open in a new window” was an available menu selection on a Workspace icon. Now that’s gone, more’s the pity. Worse, there appears to be no way to open “Applications” in a new window, period. Not from the tab, not from the icon, not from the big happy “Open” button, nowhere. It’s like that functionality was callously ripped out as unimportant.- Yet when I double-click the Designer 8.5 Help icon on the Workspace, it opens a new window by default, and in fact it can not be opened in the “same window”. So this functionality was not actually callously ripped out, it was simply hidden.
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I would like to know why it was hidden, and if there is any intent to unhide it?
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I’m not saying open in a new window should be the default, I’m saying it should be available for those of us who like it, and preferably be settable as a default. I enjoy the ability to have different window sizes and dimensions for each “application”, rather than being forced to cram everything into some “one size fits all” model. One size never fits all, anywhere, including Notes databases.
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I see I can tell it to open documents in a new window, which is something, but I want to open applications in a new window, just like help does, and show all documents for that application in tabs in THAT application’s separate window. This used to work, and still does for the Help database(s), and only the Help database(s) that I can see.
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Additionally, when I set it to open documents in a new window, it changes how tabs work. Instead of an ‘x’ on each tab, there’s a big happy red ‘x’ to the far right that applies to the selected tab. This is bizarre; not that one “x” applies to all, that’s pretty neat, but that changing the document open method changes the tab UI.
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I try very hard not to post duplicate threads, performing many different searches of the forum beforehand. In this instance I thought it important for Lotus to get “fresh” input as a new topic, from someone newly exposed to R8. If this is inappropriate I apologize in advance.
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Thanks for your time…
Background:
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Until R8.5 I never opened an application in the same window as the Workspace. I miss the fact that in R4 I could set this to be the default behaviour, so all icons would always launch in a new window. Not only that, but in R4 each window would remember its size and position, so each time I opened a database it was just how I left it.
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In R5, when the pathetically annoying “bookmarks” appeared, this default was removed, but at least I could still right-click and do the same thing. However nothing remembered its size or position any longer … each “new window” was the same size as the Workspace, overlaying it offset slighly. So while I could open in a new window, each and every time I did that I had to resize and reposition that new window as it was when I closed it. But at least it was possible.
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Now it’s utterly impossible for me to control how databases open, even though the code for that is obviously still present.