Re: [Usability] spatial desktop

[Ritesh Khadgaray <khadgaray gmail com>]

On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 13:40 +0100, Calum Benson wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 09:49 +0530, Ritesh Khadgaray wrote:
> > Hey,
> > 
> >  Out of curiosity, Why is nautilus spatial and the rest of desktop
> > not ? 
> 
> I think the reason is simply, "we had to start somewhere" :)  And enough
> people have expressed some dissatisfaction with the nautilus spatial
> implementation that we'd want to consider similar changes in any other
> applications pretty carefully.

Have one switch 
enable spatial desktop rather than individual application having this
setting.

> 
> To be honest, I'm also not clear what 'spatial' means for other
> applications anyway.  E.g. Daniel Borgmann writes about your scratchpad
Same here, still trying to learn about this.

> example:
> 
>         In true spatial philosophy, it is not possible to create a new
>         document from inside a scratchpad window, instead you will have
>         to create a new document using your file manager and then open
>         it.
> 
> which I'd say, in itself at least, isn't much to do with spatial UIs
> (and as an aside, it would probably drive me mad!)  Without having used
> it, it sounds to me more like it's just a document-driven rather than an
> application-driven UI, which always sounds like a great idea until you
> try to design a whole desktop around it :)
random thoughts from my mind

Totem is a video player, and can be made spatial  
 - remember window position, time, state ( play/pause...) .

Image viewer can have a spatial mode ( a gconf key ? to remember this )

Documents viewer ( pdf ) can remember there setting per document basis .

Text editor - already have an example.

Additionally, we can associate an application to a particular document
only ( not document type )


> 
> Cheeri,
> Calum.
> 
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