On 9/18/07, Nicu Buculei <nicu_fedora@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote: > > Nicu Buculei escribió: > >> > >> Changing the default from Spatial to Browser could also generate the > >> backslash of people ranting on their blogs about Browser not being the > >> best choice, blog complaints are not an useful metric. > > > > If that were the case, why doesn't people complaint about Konqueror > > being "browser mode - only"? I too believe that the default should be > > Probably because Konqueror was always browser only? > > > made the mode which is actually *easier* to use and not the more > > "convenient" to use, as apparently only "Power Users" like and use > > This may be because effective use of our spatial mode require unusual > shortcuts (double-click with the wheel), which only "power users" bother > to remember. > I have been thinking of adding an open to nautilus that allows changing the button behavior. left clicking opening a window and closing a parent and using middle-click to keep them open. Personally I love spatial mode, but I still wish I had that behavior. > > spatial mode (I still have to find someone who likes it in the first > > place). From a user perspective, it would seem that regular users and > > inexperienced users are the ones pleading for browser mode. I think you are really referring to Windows comfortable users here. Most the inexperienced users I have put in front of gnome really find spatial intuitive. My fiance has all her different photo/movie/music windows opening on her screen just so. Now if only there was a better way to organize her desktop :-) > > I won't argue either way, I don't have the means to conduct such > experiment but someone else in this thread (Brian) argued for the > opposite, so I believe you found at least one :p Personally I think the gnome community has gone through the change once, and we should stick with it. Jon -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
