On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 09:29 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > > However, this will still > > not be spatial behaviour as its easy to get several windows showing the > > same location. > > For example, "symlinked" paths? If so: This didn't work in Gnome 2 > anyway… Ie. I have $HOME/Dropbox which is a symlink to /data/Dropbox. > I would always get two windows, depending on whether I went to > /data or $HOME and opened dropbox.
No need for that. Just open two window and type /tmp in the location bar. > > Also in some situations it might not be what you want, > > Provide an option "Open in new window", then the user can decide and > Gnome/Nautilus doesn't have to guess *G* Thats not really constructive. Every technically possible behaviour should not be supported by adding options for it. We should support a small, well defined set of options for workflows we think make sense and are important enought to offset the cost (to maintainership and ui clutter). > > maybe the other window showing the folder is visible in some other > > workspace related to a different activity than the current activity, > > so going to that workspace and activating that window is not what you'd > > want. > > That's how it behaved on Gnome 2, and that's what I liked ;) But I guess > it would be fine to have one folder window open per workspace. No, thats not really how spatial worked, its just a very small detail in the spatial model. > > I'm generally not sure what the exact behaviour people are expecting from > > the new "open each folder in new window" mode (or how useful it is), so > > For me, the current behaviour isn't useful at all. One reason is, that it > takes > too long to open a window. Easily one to two seconds. And the flood of open > windows is a *HUGE* PITA! So, why do you keep wanting to open new windows then? Just disable that option, its not the default or anything. > > I'm not sure what the right thing to do here is. What does e.g. explorer > > do in this mode? > > Explorer of Windows XP (I don't have Windows 7) behaves like Gnome 2 > used to behave - only ONE window for ONE folder. No, explorer is not truly spatial like gnome 2 was. -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list