Buddy Info screen disappears when switching to another application.

[ecrist]

When switching to another application, the buddy information window disappears and is hidden while using the newly-switched-to application. This makes it difficult to reference the buddy information in the new application.

It would be nice if the buddy information screen did not disappear when switching to another application, but if it would, instead, behave like all other windows. At the very least, it would be helpful to have an option to determine the behavior for the window.

[jas8522]

This is by design for consistency of Inspector windows with all Apple applications and most, if not all, apps written for OS X.

[Zachary West <zacw@…>]

(In  67cf100919f4) Set the Contact Info Inspector to not "hide on deactivate." Fixes #12714.

The inspector contains a fair amount of useful information, especially in the case of Facebook contacts or Address Book contacts. It's not as much of an inspector as other applications deal with: it's not just modifying the information it's inspecting, it's also presenting more information.

A future version of Adium could go the route of dividing a "get info" and "show inspector" version of this, but I've run into this situation enough that it drives me crazy having to tab back and forth for more information.