"Spatial" mode?

[Sven Wagschal]

Romeyn Prescott schrieb:
> 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

AFAIK, an article on ars technica reviewing the Finder in Mac OS X has 
had quite an impact on the Gnome development team

<http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/finder.ars>

resulting to the introduction of the spatial mode in Gnome.