Re: Nautilus design choices redux

[Michael Toomim <toomim uclink4 berkeley edu>]

Gregory Merchan wrote:
> Here again are the questions:
>
> Inline vs. External Views
> -------------------------

> Browser-style vs. Spatial Navigation
> ------------------------------------

Aren't these really just two instances of the same question: "Should 
documents be opened in the same window or in a new window?"

(Where "documents" are either files or directories.)

When looked at from this perspective, the differences don't seem all 
that consequential.  Sometimes one wants to open a file, directory, or 
web page in a new window, and sometimes in the same window. 
Furthermore, the differences between the two probably can't be stated in 
terms of hard usability issues -- it's more a matter of fitting a 
person's volatile "style of work".

Maybe the most important thing would be to make it easy for a user to 
open any document either in a new window or the same window as he/she 
wishes?  If this were done well, I think the whole problem would go 
away.  What do you think?

Michael