On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 12:12 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote: > I don't understand this harsh reaction. Yes, I am the maintainer of > natilus, yes I am the primary developer of nautilus for at least the > last 5 years. Yes, I am the packager of nautilus in fedora. Yes, I > implemented (not invented!) spatial mode in nautilus, for the reason > that I think its a good UI model for a file manager, especially one > targeted towards non-computer-experts like nautilus. But this your opinion vs, other opinions. And yes, your opinion weighs a lot more because you are the maintainer, but it may not be any better in terms of UI design. If you guys were so "conservative" when this feature was forced on people (initially you couldn't even turn it off easily!), it would never have been set as default. The initial rationale was that it's great, and people will get used to it. AFAICT, that didn't pan out (in fact, of the 10 or so people that I directly know using Linux, techie or not, none use the spacial mode). Also, please realize this is not just any regular feature -- it's one of the most visible behavioral differences in a desktop. And it's so removed from what people are used to that it's bound to cause confusion to non-experts. Do you truly think it's all that better compared to the regular mode that it's worth the risk and confusion associated to changing well understood behavior? -- Dimi Paun <dimi@xxxxxxxxxxx> Lattica, Inc. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
