planet gnome comment

Till Varoquaux till.varoquaux at gmail.com
Mon Aug 29 17:51:13 CDT 2005


Well this is most certainly a troll. However spatial mode is disturbing for 
newbies and people coming from windows.
If it is thought that the inconvenient of learning this new mode is 
outweighted by the advantages it presents then let us go back to spatial 
mode. Otherwise those who want this should turn it on by themself.
I myself never quite understood spatial mode...
Till

On 8/29/05, JanC <janc13 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 8/29/05, Sebastian Dröge <mail at slomosnail.de> wrote:
> > Am Montag, den 29.08.2005, 11:24 -0700 schrieb George Farris:
> 
> > > I must concur. With all the great work that went into Nautilus, would
> > > it not make sense to keep the spacial mode by default?
> > >
> > > The new tree mode makes dropping into browse mode less and less
> > > necessary for most people. Lets think new users here not one already
> > > familiar with Nautilus.
> 
> > I would also prefer the spatial mode as default. The browser mode is
> > just ugly, _so_ last-century and really obsoleted by the new tree mode
> 
> Well, I use "browser mode" with the places panel on the left (not the
> directory tree panel). That offers the fastest & easiest way to go to
> the places one uses most (use bookmarks!) and because of that is much
> better than spatial mode IMHO, even (or especially) for newbies.
> (But that's just my opinion of course...)
> 
> BTW: spatial mode also dates back to "last century", and its concept
> is probably even older(!) than that of browsing mode?
> 
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