Spatial Nautilus or windows training

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On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 19:06, Steve Bergman wrote:

> I also detest spatial.  I've tried to like it.  I've asked others what
> they like about it and tried to appreciate those features.  And I still
> despise spatial.
> 
> I think the really important question, though, is which is easier for
> new users.  And I can't help but feel that spatial makes things
> unnecessarily confusing to the novice and hides too many features that a
> novice *would* want.  It's a simple switch in gconf.  I strongly believe
> that fedora should ship with spatial turned off by default.  More
> advanced users will know how to turn it on if they want it.  
> 
> I'm curious, was spatial just someone's neat idea or is it backed up by
> some sort of usability study, or commonly accepted UI principles?
> 
> -Steve Bergman

I just don't get how can anyone possibly think that depriving the user
of the file location context (i.e. the file's location in the tree
hierarchy) and making it impossible to backtrack up the directory tree
is even acceptable. At least it's not just me.