bug#37840: Missing in the Emacs manuals:

[Konrad Podczeck <konrad.podczeck@univie.ac.at>]

> Am 08.11.2019 um 19:27 schrieb martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>:
> 
> > While this works in most cases, for me it still gives a problem with
> > Speedbar: Suppose frame A has input focus, showing buffer A. Open
> > Speedbar via the menu. Then the Speedbar frame pops up, with input
> > focus, but with the same layout as frame A had, and a frame B opens,
> > with the layput intended for the Speedbar frame, but showing buffer
> > A.
> 
> I cannot reproduce that here.  

I used this customization:

(custom-set-variables
'(display-buffer-base-action
  '((display-buffer-reuse-window display-buffer-pop-up-frame)
    (reusable-frames . 0)))
'(display-buffer-alist
  '((".*" . (nil (inhibit-same-window . t)))))
'(switch-to-buffer-obey-display-actions t))

to get new frames for any type of file, and then Speedbar popped up with a layout according to defaults-frame-alist; by “layout” I mean frame geometry, font, color etc. 

Konrad

> When with emacs -Q I ask to show the
> speedbar from the Options menu, the speedbar pops up the same way
> regardless of whether I have done these customizations or not.  Maybe
> I don't understand the meaning of "layout".
> 
> What I did notice is that clicking on a file in the speedbar frame
> always opens it in the same window of the initial frame thus maybe
> disregarding the customizations but that's a different issue I
> suppose.
> 
> martin