Re: [Usability] About the "places" menu

[Maurizio Colucci <seguso forever tin it>]

Daniel Borgmann ha scritto:

> On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 15:37 +0100, Maurizio Colucci wrote:
>  
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a couple of questions.
> >
> > 1. According to the following gnome 2.10 picture
> >
> > http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=234&slide=28
> >
> > it seems the places menu is still in spatial nautilus. I thought there 
> > was a general agreement this feature contradicts the spatial principles, 
> > and a places menu should be only located in the panel. How come?
> >    
>
> Why should it contradict the spatial principles? 
AFAIK, in the spatial paradigm a window represents a folder in a very 
strict way (a bijection). Therefore a window cannot contain items (or 
links to items) that are not considered "logical properties" of the 
folder (like the items you see in the places menu).

> It just makes more
> sense to have the menu available without opening a folder first.
> However, right now the desktop Places menu contains some elements that
> the folder Places menu doesn't include and the other way around...
> That's a big problem in my opinion.
>
>  
>
> > 2. Will the places menu (the one in the panel) be able to contain 
> > bookmarks? It doesn't seem so from the picture
> >
> > http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=234&slide=28
> >    
>
> If it works like in Ubuntu, then the desktop Places menu will include
> the Gtk bookmarks 

What are these "gtk bookmarks"? Are they like the ones you create with 
nonspatial nautilus (with the bookmarks menu)?

Thank you very much  for your infos!

Maurizio