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Why Users Blame Spatial Nautilus
An anonymous reader writes "OSNews has a commentary on spatial Gnome and why you KDE/Windows people hate them so much (hint: because almost all of you use Windows and/or a Windows 'interface clone'). Steve Jobs, however, denounced spatial interfaces because they make the users janitors. Hmmm!"
You're right. This article is stupid. Just because someone doesn't like a particular innovation doesn't make him somehow anti-innovation. Or perhaps we're just not hip enough to get it.
simply restructure your filesystem to fit the UI better! after all, its not spatial browsing that's at fault -- it's the end user's fault for having a filesystem structure which doesn't fit well with the UI's design.
see, that was simple, wasn't it?
It must be a fucking slow newsday to bring up shit like this. Who gives a damn one way or the other?
And no, I hate Gnome people for all of the right reasons. They can't code and their mothers dress them funny.
I dream in binary.
Sometimes they even abuse the physical metaphor of tabbed browsing by opening multiple pages - not subpages of the same web site! - in multiple tabs of a browser window.
... opening the appriopriate album folder and double-clicking a file icon
Soooorry! Don't want to abuse your metaphor! Thanks for slapping me on the wrist and telling me "tsk, tsk!" I mean, just because I DARE to open multiple sites all talking, GASP, about the SAME SUBJECT! Yeah, I'm glad that you think it's better for me to have 5 different instances of Moz open when I'm comparing prices on hardware, because we wouldn't want to group things by, say, RELEVANCE. You know, I wouldn't want to bookmark a bunch of tabs and call it "Mobo Price Search". I'll take it easy on the fucking PHYSICAL METAPHOR and make sure I have 5 bookmarks, each with 1 or 2 pages, saying "Pricewatch Mobo Price Search", "NewEgg Mobo Price Search", "blah blah blah". Yup, that's what I want, because YOU think it's better!!!!
I even know few people who never open more than one browser window, viewing all pages in tabs; I hope they do not try to glue a daily set of newspapers together before reading them...
Yeah! Those fucking idiots! How dare they use them however they want! They're so dumb, they probably piss down their legs! Heck, I saw one of them CUT the tamper ring off a gallon of milk! Doesn't the dumbass know you're supposed to TWIST it!?!?
I mean, it's not as if humans are good at spatially remembering the location of information. I know that I simply CANNOT remember where in a book a given phrase is. I have to scan each page to find anything! I mean, it's not like my puny brain could remember that the anandtech tab is about 8 down the list, and that penny arcade tab is about 13 down. NO! I get all confused! I'm just a poor, lonely, confused, cave man cringing from all the strange sights and noises that I cannot comprehend!
On another topic: MS has been "remembering the layout of folders" for years now, without opening another window. You telling me that the only way GNOME can get that to work is by opening another window?
what's the closest real-life representation of a web page?
Here's my answer:
I DON'T GIVE A FUCK!
I want it to be easy to use on a computer and not be ARTIFICIALLY CONSTRAINED because you can't map it 1:1 with a physical fucking object.
motherfucker.
god this shit pisses me off. it's ivory tower elitism at its worst, being practiced by a basement-dwelling pleeb.
Folder structure should be simple and as shallow as possible
No Way! You should have ALL your files in ONE folder! If you start grouping your files with logic, like, say Music->Artist->Album, or Downloads->Drivers/Apps/OS->blah-blah, the next thing you'll know, you'll have folders 10 deep! What an atrocity! They need to be flat! FLAT, I say!
Please, don't stop all these good ideas coming back again.
You can try anything you like. I'll be happy to give it a try, too. But saying that a nice, logical, hirearchy of folders and files sucks because it doesn't perfectly match the "original desktop metaphor" is simply silly. Instead of constraining file layout, maybe it's the metaphor that should change? And, if it truly is a better way (more intuitive, easier to use, etc) then it will be adopted. But, attacking people for using a feature how they want, rather than in the way that you think it should be used, will not warm people up to trying new things. Show us how good it is, don't patronize us for using the tools we have.