I think you're kina missing the point here - I don't think anyone doubts there are ways to have spatial behave nicely (middle-click, tree-view, etc) but the problem is that new, novice or even experienced windoze point and click users (i.e. non-technical) will not know or be bothered to learn these keystrokes. They want a desktop they can start using straight away with a minimum learning curve - essential this is gonna be the biggest seller for Gnome.
On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 00:47, Ian Davey wrote: > Tomasz Janowitz wrote: > > >1) Opening folder = opening window - it's not only unintuitive, but also > >clutters pulpit. > > > > > You may not like it, but it's hardly unintuitive. > > >2) There is no way of going to parent folder with closing current one with > >mouse (and going file menu -> parent folder isn't what ii could call a > >method, hack perhaps). > > > > > Left click on bottom left menu -> middle click on parent folder (or left > click if you want to keep the current window) > > >3) Every window has different size/placement. The intention was to make > >'association' between folder and this window. The effect is only > >frustration. What do I do, if I have hundreds of folders ? Do i set them > >individually ? > > > > > > > Use the tree view in the parent folder containing these hundreds of > folders and just open the ones you need. Which is the view I use for my > home folder, and my music folder. I've gone from having no experience > with spatial window managers to really liking the way nautilus works. > > I tend to access frequently used folders from the bookmark menu, and > find the fact you can set size/position really useful, e.g. parent > folder in top left, child folders tiled to right and below. Downloads > folder that always opens in certain position. It has definitely changed > the way I work and for the better. > > ian. > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list -- ======================================= http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/shane/ ======================================= _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list