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Change how Shells are opened

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java
Domain
desktop

Research direction

Start by locating the Shell creation code and searching the repository for andBlock and openOnXX usages. Determine which calls need separate creation and opening, then confirm the reduced API and its behavior across all affected usages.

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Description

It should be possible to create a shell without opening it. It's also not clear that the andBlock methods are a good idea. We should look at where it is used in our code, and see how many would be better as just regular open.

We could decrease the API size if all of the openOnXX instead became just createOn(). Then you could call open when/if you wanted.

Dominant language
Java
Stars
34
Forks
4
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