Re: [Usability] spatial desktop

[Ritesh Khadgaray <khadgaray gmail com>]

On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 19:22 +0200, Daniel Borgmann wrote:
> On 9/15/06, Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek gmail com> wrote:
> > I'd like to be able to have two applications/windows on the desktop at
> > the same time (one left, one right) with the same document open.
> > Limiting yourself to a single view should not be done.
> 
> I believe that multiple views of the same object should be a feature
> provided by the application when it is useful. The difference to
> allowing multiple instances of the same object is, that accessing the
> object again (for example by clicking its desktop icon) would bring
> all existing views to the front instead of creating yet another one.

Why not add a non-spatial mode on per document basis, 
or as with nautilus spatial/non-spatial mode can co-exist.
> 
> I also believe that we should always allow a single object to be open
> in more than one application (handler) at the same time. I could
> imagine interfaces where data objects and tools are separated, but
> none that could be realistically implemented anytime soon.
> 
> Daniel
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