Re: [Usability] spatial desktop

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, brian muhumuza wrote:

> Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:01:35 +0300
> From: brian muhumuza <brian muhumuza gmail com>
> To: Usability gnome conference <usability gnome org>
> Subject: Re: [Usability] spatial desktop
>
> According to what i understand about spatialness, is about a single object
> being in one place the way it was when we left it there.
>
> I think this is hard to do currently because the difference between
> files/documents and apps is fuzzy.
>
> Almost all the time, we open an app and a new document is there, we open
> gedit/abiword/gnumeric/etc and a new document is already there. This makes
> it hard to point out what the object is, is it the app or the file?? Is a
> window an application or the document???
>
> However, we can start some where. In nautilus to be exact.
> In spatial nautilus, when we open a folder, it gets shaded/greyed and we
> cannot open it again. This should be the case for files. We open a file, it
> gets shaded/greyed and we cannot open it twice.

It would be preferable to be open mulitple views of the same document and
have them both update to reflect the current state of the document even if
it changes or moves.

-- 
Alan