Re: [gnome-love] Nautilus behaviour

[Elijah Newren <newren gmail com>]

On 11/23/05, Magnus Therning <magnus therning org> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 04:35:01PM -0600, Shaun McCance wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 10:32 +0000, Joachim Noreiko wrote:
> > > --- Magnus Therning <magnus therning org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I've noticed that Nautilus only allows a single
> > > > window for a specific
> > > > location.
> > >
> > > That's 'spatial mode':
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_file_manager
> > >
> > >
> > > > Alternatively it could move the already open window
> > > > to the current
> > > > workspace.
> > >
> > > That would make sense.
> >
> > It does do this, unless you happen to have just the wrong version of
> > Metacity, Gnome's window manager.  See here:
> >
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128380
>
> Hmm, since I'm not running Metacity it seems my WM isn't quite following
> the spec...

The spec doesn't specify how "activated" windows should be treated, in
particular with regards to whether to bring the window to the
workspace where the user is, or to bring the user to the workspace
where the window is.  There's advantages and disadvantages to both. 
This nautilus case where it feels like launching a new instance is a
pretty clear case where you'd want the window to be moved to the user,
but other cases aren't nearly so clear (and besides, the
feels-like-new-instance case can be handled separately with a proposal
from Lubos that I need to get back to; not to mention his proposal to
allow apps to specify how the workspace switching is handled in an
activation call).  So your WM isn't necessarily misbehaving...