Spatial Nautilus

[Noah Silva [Mailing list]]

Hi,

I agree that the spatial mode is way too spartan, but that wasn't the main
idea.  The idea was simply that each folder has certain properties, a
background, a position, etc.  This was already somewhat true in the browse
mode, but is easier to see in "spatial mode".  Mac OS 6-9 used this
scheme, as did OS/2.  I don't think this means that the toolbar has to be
done away with though, it could simply have different items in it.  In
particular, I would like the zoom and "view as..." widgets there.  I
suppose people in hell want ice water too...

On Sun, 28 Mar 2004, Steve Bergman wrote:

> I've been using rawhide since a little before FC2-test1.  And I must say
> that I am more than a bit taken aback by the new nautilus default mode.
>
> I'm a KDE fan from before their 1.0 release, and it took a long while
> for Gnome to win me over.  But it did eventually, and what won me over
> was its adherence to the HIG, and the beautiful simplicity of Bluecurve
> Gnome.  i.e. I'm not one of those people who bemoaned the replacement of
> sawfish with metacity, and I like the "less is more" philosophy of the
> current Gnome series.  Gnome has done a lot of things right.
>
> So I can't help but feel that I am missing the boat when it comes to
> spatial mode nautilus.  On the plus side, I can see that it certainly
> has a cleaner look.  And that's it.
>
> On the minus side, it wants to open a window for every mouse click,
> navigation is cumbersome, finding what options you do have is a hunt and
> peck afair.  I realize that if you know to "right click-> browse folder"
> or "nautilus -browser", you can get the old behavior back, but what I
> don't understand is why spatial is the default.  How does spatial mode
> as the default benefit the new user?  To me, this seems to be a case of
> cutting out too much of the interface.
>
> I realize that this may really be a question for another list, but as
> the Fedora project could decide to change the default, it seems an
> appropriate thing to ask in this forum.  I almost feel that I should be
> posting this to bugzilla instead of here.
>
> What are the advantages of spatial that I am not seeing?
>
> Thanks,
> Steve Bergman
>
>
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