Re: Spatial Mode Window Cluttering and Possible Solutions

[Yuan Qi <gmanenews 3 maxchee spamgourmet com>]

The whole point of spatial is to make everything simple. The addition of 
all the extra widgets makes it more complicated instead. We need to keep 
the direct association between window and folder.

As for ubuntu's behaviour, please see my initial proposal. (which can be 
considered a more intelligent version of ubuntu's behaviour). Please 
also read the taskbar behaviour proposal as well.

George Farris <george gmsys com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 17:03 -0400, Yuan Qi wrote:
>
> > > I didn't intend to make the nautilus spatial mode more browser like and 
> > > I don't think the suggested behaviour is browser-like at all.
>
>
>
> The real issue for me is a solution in part the way Ubuntu has gone,
> close parent when opening child.  The only problem is actually
> manipulating objects such as dragging a file from one folder to another.
> It would be really nice with the following:
>
> User starts a Nautilus session by opening their home folder for example.
> They drill down N folders deep and Nautilus keeps a history of the
> folders (which it already does) but only keeps one window open.
> When a drag action is detected, a side bar is popped up that contains an
> icon list of the folder history which the user can drag the object to
> and drop.
>
> An added feature for reducing mouse travel would be:
> When opening a folder which is a desktop link or in the places menu it
> will have size and position history saved, otherwise new windows will
> open as they do with the no_ubuntu_spacial option and with a default
> size.