planet gnome comment

[Pascal Klein]

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 07:28 am, JanC 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?
>
> --
> JanC

I think the best solution is to pick the user friendly version, that makes it 
a breeze to browse one's files, but allow also for easy changing between 
browsing layouts/modes.

My 5 cents. :o)

Pascal Klein

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Pascal Klein
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