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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!"

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  1. Flame on! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    In other news, god uses three-space tabs.

  2. Re:Disclosure? by Sigma-X · · Score: 2, Funny

    then the future must be awkward and take a while to close when you're done using it.

  3. Weak by J4 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm sorry but the newspaper analogy sucked donkey balls. I mean, my web browser doesn't turn my hands black either.

    GNOME devs - Lay off the Kool-Aid and switch back to something with caffeine!

  4. Re:Someone explain? by ph4s3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thank you for sharing what you think you feel about spinach. In a short while you will be contacted by a local reprentative to advise you why you are wrong and tell you how you will think about spinach in the future.

    Thank you,
    A.S.H.C.R.O.F.T.
    [Anti-Spinach Hating Council for Re-education Of Free Thought]

  5. Re:EXACTLY. by Tony+Hoyle · · Score: 2, Funny

    Gnome 6.0 Changelog:

    Confusing 'logon' button removed from the main screen. To logon edit /usr/local/etc/.gnome/settings/users/advanced/butt ons and set the yes_i_want_to_log_on_you_stupid_machine flag to 0x85FEDDDE (unless you have more than 1GB of RAM in which case set it to 0x3DE521F), then reboot.

  6. Re:Illegal use of tabbed browsing?? by kunudo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or maybe he should just get a new hobby that doesn't include riding every metaphore into the ground just because of it's conceptual purity. What a dweeb.

  7. Like Spatial, Try This! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    add this to your ~/.bashrc

    test "$DISPLAY" && { _cd () { ( cd $1; xterm ); }; alias cd=_cd; }

    stoooooooopid.

  8. One thing is not clear from the article... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Is it spelled "Nautilius" or "Nautilitus"?

  9. "Abused Tabs" by xrayspx · · Score: 5, Funny

    I had no idea that I was abusing the privilege of tabbed browsing by using it to keep as few browser windows open as possible. I need to rethink my entire browsing paradigm. This guy makes too many good points, I've been browsing all wrong all these years, what could I have been thinking? Thank you Random Polish Guy, thank you for explaining why one shouldn't abuse tabs by having two separate sites open at the same time.

  10. Re:How to turn it off. by abdulla · · Score: 5, Funny
    The article was considsending. The Gnome group seems to think they're smarter than me, and that if their system doesn't work with me, then I should look elsewhere, and so I have.
    What an outrage? Why would they ever think they're smarter than you? Considsending indeed!
  11. Re:Someone explain? by Moofie · · Score: 3, Funny

    Here, let's test it.

    Anybody who hates the GPL/BSD/etc License, is just wrong! You should like it!

    --
    Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
  12. Re:Spatial for shallow, Browser for deep. by NaugaHunter · · Score: 4, Funny

    Perhaps the "smart" behavior could be created by using a distributed bayesian filter against the contents of a file.

    If you read this line quickly, it sounds like something Geordi or Data would throw out to fix the computer overload that is preventing the Enterprise from escaping Some Devastating Explosion.

    --
    R: That voice. Where have I heard that voice before? B: In about 365 other episodes. But I don't know who it is either.
  13. Re:Huh? by donscarletti · · Score: 4, Funny
    I like Gnome; I want it to be successful; I HAVE contributed to the project in numerous ways

    You think that contributing to Gnome proves you like it? I spent probably 20-30 hours of the last week coding one of it's libraries and I still detest it :)

    --
    When Argumentum ad Hominem falls short, try Argumentum ad Matrem
  14. Re:How many Polish sysadmins does it take. . . by donscarletti · · Score: 3, Funny
    How many Polish sysadmins does it take to change all the lightbulbs in a hotel?

    Two. One to install a single HUGE lightbulb in the center, and another to tell the management that it would be a lot brighter if they had a more "shallow" structure of rooms.

    --
    When Argumentum ad Hominem falls short, try Argumentum ad Matrem
  15. Re:Huh? by Prior+Restraint · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, it's called "respect for the user." In this case it's replaced with "user interface paternalism."

    I wonder how long until they decide that users need to learn to get used to the Dvorak layout, and just start remapping the keyboard for us.

  16. Re:Huh? by nickos · · Score: 2, Funny

    I want a spatial Slashdot. Having a hierarchy of posts (threads) is way too confusing. Why can't there just be one level of posts so that I don't have to worry about which post I need to reply to?