Spatial mess prevention

[Remy Maucherat]

On Apr 2, 2005 10:47 PM, Corey Burger <corey.burger at gmail.com> wrote:
> I thought I would summarize what I have heard regarding the debate
> about this. Note that in the interest of full disclosure, I dislike
> the new spatial.
> 
> Reasons why this is a bad thing.
> 
> 1. It breaks documentation. As a member of the documentation team, we
> have been in string freeze for some time now. Release notes are being
> translated. In other words, to add mention of this to anywhere is
> going to involve a lot of people and a lot of coordination and time
> 
> 2. It may cause bugs. See:
> http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2005-April/028410.html
> 
> 3. Feature freeze was long time ago. Feature freeze is for people like
> documentation team to document these things, so that we can mention
> it.
> 
> 4. There is no good way to turn it off. By that I mean a gui way. But
> Koke did some excellent work
> 
> 5. We are 6 days from a release. Bugs simply don't have time to come
> out and be fixed
> 
> 6. It breaks upstream compatibility. As well as cross-distro compatibility.
> 
> Reasons to keep the new way
> 
> 1. The old way barfed windows all over the place. Sometimes it was
> very difficult to use the task bar. I found this very annoying.
> Something better needed to be found.
> 
> Closing thoughts:
> 
> This is what I have heard, read and seen in the last day about this,
> as well as my own thoughts. I ask the dev team to please reconsider
> and bump this to Breezy.

Your reasons are cool, but the new behavior is better. Did you
actually notice that holding down shift would create the usual
"spatial" craziness that does not make any sense in most cases ? That
kind of little tricks are the only thing I like in the wndows
explorer, and is the reason I like the new stuff, so congrats to
whoever came up with this solution.

All the complaints really read like the usual user rants I am so used
to, every time a developer dares change a behavior.

Rémy