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[Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx>]

> On Nov 15, 2016, at 9:42 AM, Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Just an observation. I updated my MacBook Pro to Sierra but hadn’t used Kicad on it until today (my main work machine is a 2008 iMac which can’t go past 10.11).
> 
> One of the features in 10.12 is that a lot of applications can now open new windows in tabs. Previously, only applications that were built to use tabs could do that (Safari, Finder).
> 
> I opened a project, then I opened the schematic, and a fun (funny) thing happened — the schematic was added as a tab to the same window as the project manager. Then I opened the layout, and now I have a third tab.
> 
> This is actually pretty cool, since Cmd-Tab doesn’t cycle through the individual Kicad program windows. And you can drag, say, the layout tab away from the window, and the layout then opens in its own window.

OK, old message, but I’ve figured out what’s going on.

In Sierra, a new option was added in a non-obvious location. In the System Preferences, under Dock, there is now an option called “Prefer tabs when opening documents.” It has three options: Always, In Full Screen Only, and Manually. Set it to Always, and the behavior I described above is enabled.

-a