Re: Browser Mode by Default [Was: Nautilus]

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>]

On 22 Dec, 2005, at 6:30 AM, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
> ...
> Op Thu, 22 Dec 2005 04:10:42 +1100, schreef Jeff Waugh:
> > etc. On *so* many occasions (and I don't think this is news to 
> > anyone), I have seen massive trees of categorised folders with all 
> > kinds of documents in them, often a shared resource on a file server, 
> > which users navigate through to open files for editing or reading, 
> > and drop files into (usually from email).
>
> Fair enough, but this is a better argument to make the tree-listview
> default in spatial mode, than it is an argument to completely switch
> paradigm _again_.
> ...

Spatial memory applies to the icons within windows, not just to the 
windows themselves. But that's not useful where the number of items in 
a single folder is so great that scrolling prevents you from having any 
spatial memory for most of the items. So the first time a folder is 
ever opened, if it has more than about 50 items in it, Nautilus 
probably should set it to list view automatically. (After that it 
should stick to whatever view it had last, regardless of the number of 
items.)

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Matthew Paul Thomas
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