"Spatial" mode?

[Jeramy Rutley]

Yes, it's what Mac OS did in 1984.

It's "new" to Linux because it was first implemented for GNOME 2.6.
Similar to the Mac's option-click, in GNOME either a
Shift-double-click or a double-middle-click will open a new window and
close the parent.

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:38:21 -0500, Romeyn Prescott
<prescor at digirom.potsdam.edu> wrote:
> I keep seeing people talking about Nautilus'/Gnome's "new" Spatial Mode.
> 
> Am I missing something, or is this what the Mac OS did from 1984
> until OS X was introduced?  Frankly it's something I missed
> immediately when OS X came out.  A lot of people complain about the
> window clutter, but if you didn't want the parent window to remain
> you just held down the option key as you opened it and the parent
> vanished.
> 
> Or is spatial mode something more and I'm missing it/not finding it
> as I Google?  It might be new to Linux, but it's certainly nothing
> "new"!
> 
> Curious,
> ...ROMeyn
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