RE: spatial/browser preference

[Dave Camp <dave novell com>]

Sigh, emacs for "go forward a word and then go to the next line" is evo
for "send this mail right now.

I would guess that:

* Switching the default mode is going to be a once-by-many operation
 (not a *majority*, but it won't be rare :))

* Switching from spatial to browser will be a common-by-few operation
 this use case could probably be handled by the current "Browse 
  Folder" menu item, but it might be worth adding a "Browse Here"
  item.

* Switching from browser to spatial will be a rare-by-few operation.
  it might be worth doing, but I don't think so.

So I think that a global preference plus "browse here" is probably 
a better solution than a window-morphing thing (particularly since
window-morphing is not very common in gnome at all, with evo being
the only example I can think of offhand).

-dave

On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 19:56 -0400, Dave Camp wrote:
> I don't like how that works.  We don't really want to blur the line
> between spatial windows and the file browser - they are different kinds
> of windows that act differently.  I don't think that the operation
> (wanting to change between one kind of window to another) is really
> common enough to warrant the blurred line.
> 
> I would guess that:
> 
> * Switching the default mode is going to be a once-by-many operation
> (not a *majority*, but it won't be rare :))
> 
> * Switching from spatial to browser will be a common-by-few operation -
> this use case could probably be handled by "Browse Folder"
> 
> * Switching from browser to spatial will
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 14:28 -0700, Eugenia Loli-Queru wrote:
> > >fwiw, alex and I have discussed putting the browser/spatial mode option
> > >into the preferences dialog.  We're ok with doing that, it just hasn't
> > >been done yet.
> > 
> > Is it out of the question having a small icon on the outmost right of the
> > menubar that switches between the two on the fly, just like Mac OS X's
> > Finder is able to do?
> > 
> > Rgds,
> > Eugenia
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