On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 17:47, Sean Middleditch wrote: > Given that in the core desktop we are moving away from embedded views, > I'm not sure this is a good idea at all. Generally, if I have a file, I > want to view it in a real window, not an embedded stripped-down "view" > in a web browser. > No, we are moving away from embedded views *in the file manager*. The web browser is not a file manager and navigation is same-window, as opposed to nautilus where it is spacial-different-window. So we're using a different metaphor, and this was (I think) noted by the nautilus team when they first proposed going spacial. So the paradigms are different. It's a bit odd for some links to open in a new window while others are same-window; since HTML hyperlinks are same-window, it makes sense to have idiot-obfuscated-format hyperlinks be same-window too. Also, opening in a separate application frequently involves downloading the file to a temporary location and opening the file, which will confuse a program if it expects to be able to edit it. (This is for applications not fully supporting GNOME-VFS.) > Are there any cases for *requiring* this functionality in order to > browse a site? Yes, some sites embed a file which just results in a broken page for browsers without a plugin (which in linux distributions is frequently the case). -- Andrew Sobala <as583 cam ac uk> Given by our hand in the meadow that is called Runnymede, between Windsor and Staines, on the fifteenth day of June in the seventeenth year of our reign.
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