Yesterdays Hoary updates break Nautilus?

frijolito-ts ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org
Thu Apr 21 20:28:22 UTC 2005


jeffjj Wrote: 
> Mine too. When I click on a folder the other window goes away. I got
> lazy and just turned off the spatial browsing. I guess that was kind of
> a dumb windowish like thing to do. I turned the spatial back on and will
> wait to see if it gets fixed soon.

I don't think it's "dumb" or "'windowish" to turn off that spatial
thing. I found it *extremely* annoying to suddenly see it as the
default behavior for Nautilus! And I come from 9+ years of Linux use,
and ~4 of *not* using MS Windows.



I have noticed that people tend to get pedantic regarding this issue.
If someone dislikes spatial they're told they're dumber, in not so many
words. 



Plus, I don't have anything against spatial. I'm sure that it's quite
efficient for some people, and that it's probably better or something
than the browse mode. That's not the point. The point is, that people
are annoyed when they discover it's the new, default behavior. Spatial
is not easy to use, takes some time getting used to, and has a higher
learning curve than browse mode. This is precisely why it should *not*
be the default behavior.


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frijolito-ts




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