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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