Re: [Fwd: Nautilus]

["Shane O'Connor" <Shane Oconnor Sun COM>]

I think you're kina missing the point here - I don't think anyone doubts
there are ways to have spatial behave nicely (middle-click, tree-view,
etc) but the problem is that new, novice or even experienced windoze
point and click users (i.e. non-technical) will not know or be bothered
to learn these keystrokes. They want a desktop they can start using
straight away with a minimum learning curve - essential this is gonna be
the biggest seller for Gnome.


On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 00:47, Ian Davey wrote:
> Tomasz Janowitz wrote:
> 
> >1) Opening folder = opening window - it's not only unintuitive, but also
> >clutters pulpit.
> >  
> >
> You may not like it, but it's hardly unintuitive.
> 
> >2) There is no way of going to parent folder with closing current one with
> >mouse (and going file menu -> parent folder isn't what ii could call a
> >method, hack perhaps).
> >  
> >
> Left click on bottom left menu -> middle click on parent folder (or left 
> click if you want to keep the current window)
> 
> >3) Every window has different size/placement. The intention was to make
> >'association' between folder and this window. The effect is only
> >frustration. What do I do, if I have hundreds of folders ? Do i set them
> >individually ?
> >
> >  
> >
> Use the tree view in the parent folder containing these hundreds of 
> folders and just open the ones you need. Which is the view I use for my 
> home folder, and my music folder. I've gone from having no experience 
> with spatial window managers to really liking the way nautilus works.
> 
> I tend to access frequently used folders from the bookmark menu, and 
> find the fact you can set size/position really useful, e.g. parent 
> folder in top left, child folders tiled to right and below. Downloads 
> folder that always opens in certain position. It has definitely changed 
> the way I work and for the better.
> 
> ian.
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