Re: [Nautilus-list] open in this window / shortcut behavior

[Benedikt Roth <Benedikt Roth gmx net>]

On Tue 30, 10:30:07, Darin Adler wrote:
> on 10/30/01 10:22 AM, Benedikt Roth at Benedikt Roth gmx net wrote:
> 
> > Why open a new window if the old one will be closed? Wouldn't it make more
> > sense (and be lots faster) to just open the folder in the same window?
> 
> Because on Macintosh each directory had its own position and size. Just
> opening all sorts of different directories with different kinds of contents
> all in one window is a poor substitute.
> 
> But Nautilus mimics Windows, web browsers, and the latest Macintosh Finder
> by reusing the same window, which doesn't really work with icon positions,
> with the result that people start to think that list views are better than
> icon views and all icon view should be "auto-sort" ones. I find this far
> inferior to the "each window has its own size" approach, but I'm not
> planning to change it in Nautilus.
> 
> When you have Nautilus set to open each folder in a new window, it does save
> window positions and sizes, so we almost have both designs.

Ah, ok. Thanks for the explanation, I was just curious because I (sadly)
never have really used a Mac.
 
> > So you could generally use eg. the Ctrl-key to temporarily change the option
> > "Open each file or folder in a separate window".
> 
> That sounds OK.
> 
> But personally, I don't like keys that toggle options, because that means
> they might do something different on each computer, and you have to try
> things twice to remember which way this computer is set. For example, on
> Macintosh, holding the command key when you drag turns the grid on if it's
> normally off and turns the grid off if it's normally on. This drives me
> nuts.

Well, I don't feel very strong about this issue although I would like 
to have this behaviour..

Regards,

	Benedikt