Re: Gnome 2.6: What were you thinking?

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 07:55, jamie wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 09:42, Carlos Garnacho wrote:

> > because middle clicking is a PITA in laptops :-)
> 
> My only gripe with the spatial mode is why doesn't the default left
> click open stuff in the same window instead of popping up a new one? I

Because then it wouldn't be spatial mode!  Please read one of the
bazillion writeups around on what spatial mode is, how it works, and why
it works that way.  Here's the Ars Technica articles I'd recommend
readinig:

Spatial Finder:
http://arstechnica.com/paedia/f/finder/finder-3.html#spatial-finder
GNOME/Nautilus 2.6:
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/004/software/gnome-2.6/gnome-2.6-2.html


> I would like to see Nautilus behave in a similar way to tabbed browsers

How the heck do you drag-n-drop then?  Tabs also destroy spatiality. 
Generally the only reason to have two working windows at a time (not
including parent windows) is to see/work in both at once, so tabs become
useless.
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Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>
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