Spatial Nautilus

[Ben Steeves]

On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 17:25, Noah Silva [Mailing list] wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I agree that the spatial mode is way too spartan, but that wasn't the main
> idea.  The idea was simply that each folder has certain properties, a
> background, a position, etc.  This was already somewhat true in the browse
> mode, but is easier to see in "spatial mode".  Mac OS 6-9 used this
> scheme, as did OS/2. 

So did the Amiga, which is personally why I was glad to see a spatial
filesystem browser in Linux.  It seems odd that so many filesystem
managers try to work like Windows Explorer.  I never got used to that
form; I always preferred spatial and I still do, even though Nautilus'
still has a few warts (ex: click on a Windows Network host, then click
on any of the shared resources, and you'll get an "The action associated
with "share" is invalid" message.  If you associate nautilus with it,
you'll get an error message "'Nautilus' can`t open 'jazmin' because
'nautilus' can`t access files at 'smb' .locations".  Whoops :-)

> I don't think this means that the toolbar has to be
> done away with though, it could simply have different items in it.  In
> particular, I would like the zoom and "view as..." widgets there.  I
> suppose people in hell want ice water too...

By implication, people using Nautilus are in hell :-)  Just kidding.  I
like spatial mode.  And there's nothing stopping anyone from never
seeing spatial mode if they don't want to!


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