Re: [Usability] spatial desktop

[Ritesh Khadgaray <khadgaray gmail com>]

On Sun, 2006-08-27 at 15:42 +0200, Steve Fr�naux wrote:
> Ritesh Khadgaray wrote:
> 
> >> Those should happen anyway, and they aren't really anything to do with 
> >> a spatial interface either.
> > rather than each application having a spatial mode option, why not use a
> > common setting in gconf "/desktop/gnome/interface/spatial"
> 
> Because it would cause pain.
> 
> Currently, GNOME has desktop-wide settings for things like labels on 
> toolbars and so on. But those are minor changes in the UI, and it's 
> perfectly correct to define them desktop-wide (most applications provide 
> their own setting for it, to make it possible to overwrite the desktop 
> setting, too)
> 
> But spatial is another matter. Changing from non-spatial to spatial 
> involves big UI changes (just look at nautilus as an example), and 
> someone using a "spatial" desktop could as well want to keep a classical 
> view for some apps. And depending on the context it might be more useful 
> to have MDI instead of spatial things. It's really on an application basis.
which means, if at any point of time gnome desktop goes completely
spatial i would have to manually enable spatial feature for all
application ?

why not add a setting for global preference, which applications can
override ? 

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