On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 22:19 -0800, Dave Roberts wrote: > I finally upgraded from FC1 to FC3, skipping FC2 along the way. > Naturally, I ran into the new, ahem, "spatial" Nautilus behavior. I just > figured I would vent here a bit and say that this interface is straight > out of 1990. This behavior sucked on the Mac, sucked on Windows 3.0, and > still sucks today. It was only suitable on the original Macintosh, ala > 1984, where people had only floppy drives with a maximum of 10 folders > and about the same number of actual files. Anything beyond that, the > paradigm seriously breaks down. The guy who brought this back and then > justified it with this crap about how it's better for new users should > be taken out behind the woodshed and beaten with a thick usability > manual. > > Further, I was horrified that, while there is a switch to actually turn > this behavior off and do the sensible thing, it's buried so deep down in > GConf as to be totally hidden from any mere mortal without access to > this email list. At a minimum, I would have expected a clean "disable > stupid spatial mode" checkbox in the Nautilus preferences. > > Anyway, if there's some petition I could sign to tell whatever powers > that be that they really, really, really screwed this one up, please > point me at it. > > And yes, I know this was covered in extreme detail several months ago. > I'm late to the party, but just needed some cathartic release. > > -- > Dave Roberts <ldave@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > If you're referring to the way Nautilis opens up a new window every time you go into a subfolder, then I AGREE!!! Where'd you find the setting to change that behavior? -- Grant Limberg
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