On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 09:17 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > I have "real" filesystem stuff, I just make proper use of when to > double click and when to shift-double click. And you do that because the spacial concept (while interesting), is broken as a UI metaphor for folders. Spacial makes a lot of sense for "objects": computer, Network, a disk. Those have real-world corespondents, and people relate to that. However, for most people, folders are seen as a _path_ to the object that you want to work with. (duh, we even call it a "path" ...) Any sane engineering/UI design/consistency principle that was listed in this discussion suggests that going with a non-spacial default is the only reasonable thing to do. Not only would we please a lot more users, we wouldn't be violating the principle of least surprise, but from the use cases listed, it seems that even the spacial-proponents would be just as happy. Folks, this is not a corner case -- it's the first thing new users bang their heads on. And it creates a bad impression. It's an interesting idea, it had 4 years to prove itself, it failed. Listing all sorts of theoretical reasons why it _should_ be better is just mental masturbation. If you think people like, let's run a poll on Slashdot... -- Dimi Paun <dimi@xxxxxxxxxxx> Lattica, Inc. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
