On 27/03/2008, Dimi Paun <dimi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. Personally speaking, the whole spatial nautilus thing became a lot more usable when I realized what the middle mouse button click does. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
