Feature request: browsing filesystem in gnome "computer" menu

[Jeff Waugh]

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> I've been using these things since the eighties, I'm presently working on
> some features I hope to contribute to gnome. I really like the gnome
> desktop, but on this whole "spatial" issue I feel for you. It's a stupid
> idea to make it default, and the way the "gnome community" talks about it
> proves this time and again. They talk up this usability guideline, but
> every time someone criticizes the "spatial" nonsense the argument is
> "people just need to be educated..."

> If Steve Jobs had adopted such an attitude Macs sure wouldn't be the
> revered creatures they are, and Jobs wouldn't be where he is today.

Of course, the spatial file manager concept was almost entirely defined by
Apple in Mac OS (Classic), so Steve Jobs and co. certainly had their eyes on
the ball way back then. :-)

I think you're generalising pretty strongly about the developer attitude to
this change. Personally, I think there are problems with it, but I'm more
than willing to see where it goes, and how we can deal with those problems,
rather than having an allergic reaction to change and switching back to the
older navigational ("Browse") mode.

That said, this is pretty off-topic for ubuntu-devel, so this conversation
should probably shift to sounder if it continues.

- Jeff

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