Ritesh Khadgaray wrote:
Those should happen anyway, and they aren't really anything to do with a spatial interface either.rather than each application having a spatial mode option, why not use a common setting in gconf "/desktop/gnome/interface/spatial"
Because it would cause pain.Currently, GNOME has desktop-wide settings for things like labels on toolbars and so on. But those are minor changes in the UI, and it's perfectly correct to define them desktop-wide (most applications provide their own setting for it, to make it possible to overwrite the desktop setting, too)
But spatial is another matter. Changing from non-spatial to spatial involves big UI changes (just look at nautilus as an example), and someone using a "spatial" desktop could as well want to keep a classical view for some apps. And depending on the context it might be more useful to have MDI instead of spatial things. It's really on an application basis.