Spatial mess prevention

[jorge o. castro]

Jeff Waugh wrote:
> WARNING TO ALL: This kind of reaction is why this patch is so dangerous. The
> change does not actually cure any ills, it just papers over a symptom. With
> this patch in place, we will continue to get requests such as this, and not
> come to a real, suitable fix.

I've been using the newly patched Nautilus for most of the day today and
I have some feedback as to why I think it's bad.

a) It differs from upstream. I use lots of GNOME systems at work and
having my Ubuntu boxes switching behavior from RHEL/NLD/whatever really
disorients me. Not to mention the effect this has on existing
documentation on the web and the GNOME documentation.

b) This radically affects day-to-day usage, very late in the release
cycle. It's difficult to get good feedback on how this works with hoary
releasing in a week.

I think that trying things like this is good, I for one use
double-middle click 90% of the time when I use nautilus. I prefer this
new behavior to the old, _BUT_, I just think the timing is bad on the
eve of release. A change like this should really be pursued upstream
first, having Ubuntu change the behavior at the last minute will just
create confusion among users.

I can just imagine the Nautilus maintainers smashing their heads against
a wall when they receive bug reports from well-intentioned users
confused on why the mouse buttons are different.

--
jorge o. castro <jorge at whiprush.org>
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