Les Mikesell wrote:
Andrew Farris wrote:
They moved away from it because user acceptance was problematic due to
users being unable/unwilling to read the tiniest bits of documentation
to find out they don't have to end up with a billion windows open
while using spatial mode... not because the system is innately flawed.
The problem is that the users don't _want_ all the windows down a path
left open and they don't want to use some oddball action to avoid it as
a side effect.
Agreed... but spatial vs not spatial has nothing to do with that. This is
instead a default behavior issue with bindings, and I would agree with you that
it would be better if the default was to close parent folders and then holding
shift+click was the method to keep parents open. But that is not an argument
for not using spatial browsing.. its an argument for sending a patch upstream
to change those behaviors.
I agree columned mode is better than purely spatial, but working from
a tree or partial tree partial spatial (i.e. nautilus browser/windows
explorer) is the worst of both worlds.
What's bad about them - assuming you open as many instances as you want?
It would be somewhat handier if they had 'File/New Window' options to
duplicate the current window and 'right-mouse/Open in New Window' so you
didn't have to start from the top every time but most of the paths I use
diverge early anyway.
Two things:
1) it forces you to open two windows and navigate to them both to do the VAST
majority of file operations; it is much more common to need access to drag a
file between folders than it is to move it within the same folder.
2) because most paths *do* diverge early as you say, and I find the same to be
true, the spatial browsing behavior often gets the window you'll need open on
the way to the file in the first place, meaning you don't actually navigate
twice as you do with two windows in a browser mode. The only effective way to
fight that is to sacrifice use of dragging to move files and instead use
copy/cut/paste everywhere you handle files, meaning you're either using two
hands or working with context menus anyway.
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