Spatial Nautilus
I've been using rawhide since a little before FC2-test1. And I must say
that I am more than a bit taken aback by the new nautilus default mode.
I'm a KDE fan from before their 1.0 release, and it took a long while
for Gnome to win me over. But it did eventually, and what won me over
was its adherence to the HIG, and the beautiful simplicity of Bluecurve
Gnome. i.e. I'm not one of those people who bemoaned the replacement of
sawfish with metacity, and I like the "less is more" philosophy of the
current Gnome series. Gnome has done a lot of things right.
So I can't help but feel that I am missing the boat when it comes to
spatial mode nautilus. On the plus side, I can see that it certainly
has a cleaner look. And that's it.
On the minus side, it wants to open a window for every mouse click,
navigation is cumbersome, finding what options you do have is a hunt and
peck afair. I realize that if you know to "right click-> browse folder"
or "nautilus -browser", you can get the old behavior back, but what I
don't understand is why spatial is the default. How does spatial mode
as the default benefit the new user? To me, this seems to be a case of
cutting out too much of the interface.
I realize that this may really be a question for another list, but as
the Fedora project could decide to change the default, it seems an
appropriate thing to ask in this forum. I almost feel that I should be
posting this to bugzilla instead of here.
What are the advantages of spatial that I am not seeing?
Thanks,
Steve Bergman