Suggestion Next Release
Jonathan Underwood
jonathan.underwood at gmail.com
Thu Mar 27 15:00:29 UTC 2008
On 27/03/2008, Dimi Paun <dimi at lattica.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 09:17 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > I have "real" filesystem stuff, I just make proper use of when to
> > double click and when to shift-double click.
>
> And you do that because the spacial concept (while interesting), is
> broken as a UI metaphor for folders.
>
> Spacial makes a lot of sense for "objects": computer, Network, a disk.
> Those have real-world corespondents, and people relate to that. However,
> for most people, folders are seen as a _path_ to the object that you
> want to work with. (duh, we even call it a "path" ...)
>
> Any sane engineering/UI design/consistency principle that was listed in
> this discussion suggests that going with a non-spacial default is the
> only reasonable thing to do. Not only would we please a lot more users,
> we wouldn't be violating the principle of least surprise, but from the
> use cases listed, it seems that even the spacial-proponents would be
> just as happy.
>
> Folks, this is not a corner case -- it's the first thing new users bang
> their heads on. And it creates a bad impression. It's an interesting
> idea, it had 4 years to prove itself, it failed. Listing all sorts of
> theoretical reasons why it _should_ be better is just mental
> masturbation.
Personally speaking, the whole spatial nautilus thing became a lot
more usable when I realized what the middle mouse button click does.
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