Re: Spatial Nautilus

[Ben Williams <benw plasticboy com>]

bbarnich umich edu wrote:

> Well maybe someone can enlighten me... Since when did nautilus decide 
> to become a MacOS 6 clone? 

Here's the mesage that kind of started it all:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2003-September/msg00446.html
and the Ars Technica article linked there is very enlightening.

> IMO all these "features" should be options not defaults.

You can access the old browser interface by right-clicking on a folder 
and choosing Browse folder. There's also a gconf key to switch back 
permanently: /apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_browser
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/I like spatial nautilus, personally, but I agree that a lot people are 
going to want a preference setting to switch back. Probably too late for 
that, though :)
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/-Ben/
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