[curt.clifton]

Originally Posted by gdevore

So, if your "Open New Windows" setting is "With last used view settings" or a perspective that is in Context mode (General Preference pane) you can't see the Project for the action in a new window.

This is why I using Planning* as my default perspective. To me this is an improvement over 1.6, where occasionally the new focused window would be in context mode, because that's what I'd used last. I can understand how the current behavior would be frustrating if you want the default perspective to be context mode, so that Cmd-Opt-N opens in context mode.

Perhaps we need a default perspective for new windows and a default perspective for focused windows that open after double-clicking an action? I hate to see a solution that adds this complexity, but I don't yet see a clean, discoverable way to satisfy both use cases.