On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 13:24 -0600, Paul Best wrote: > You could accomplish having a sidebar for spatial with what should be > a rather simple change to navigational. Right now the spatial > nautilus is integrated nicely with the navigational mode (Open in > Browser)
Actually, I have always found the distinction between spatial and navigational mode rather strict and was wondering why it is implemented that way. When I have two folders on my desktop, why can't I just say, "this one is a spatial box where I can drop my text documents, and the other one holds a hierarchy that is supposed to open in a window with a tree visible". The browser window could still perform like a spatial window, popping up in it's last known position. And (unlike what the browser does now) if you have multiple icons holding hierarchies on your desktop, the browser should remember different positions for each of them. The same question arose for spatial mode windows - why can't I just choose to display (bookmarks|history|notes|whatever) and have it remembered window-specific? For example, in my "Books" directory, I like to have notes visible, in my "Code" directory I prefer to use my bookmarks because I know that I usually jump to zounds of different directories from there, and my "/pub" directory is a tree, because our company's project data is complex enough to force us into a hierarchical structure. -Samuel -- ------------------------------------------------------ | Samuel Abels | http://www.debain.org | | spam ad debain dod org | knipknap ad jabber dod org | ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
