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How To Deal With The Spatial Paradigm

Posted by timothy on from the tradedja-for-a-paratwenties dept.

PostThis writes that there's been "a lot of talk about Gnome's spatial Nautilus lately and so Christian Paratschek puts everything into perspective weighing in the pros and cons of this particular user interface paradigm. In any case, there are always alternatives."

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  1. Re:The only mistake by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative
    You know, Mac OS9 (and earlier) was like this. But they had a real simple solution... if you held down 'option' when opening a folder, the new folder opened and the old folder closed itself. This was remarkably easy to do, since you tend to use a mac with one hand on the mouse and one on the keyboard anyway (control-click for context menus, if you have the single button mouse).

    With OSX they just changed the behavior, which you could change in a preference.

    With Windows I think it's what... hold down control when you open a folder to have it open in a new window?

  2. Re:Just break Gnome by Puggs · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not many alternatives left?????

    How many do you need? - Fluxbox (or blackbox or *box), Windowmaker, IceWM, Enlightenment, XPde, None, ION, Ratpoison, or the several more that I cant be bothered to find for you...

    Alternativley, you could use google to find out how to turn the spatial interface off & use the old nautilius

    Or perhaps you'd be happer with the huge range of choices on Windows - explorer.exe, explorer.exe or possibly explorer.exe ;)

  3. Re:Why I dislike spatial by Too+Much+Noise · · Score: 2, Informative

    I dislike spatial for the same reason I hate websites that pop up new windows for every link.

    Use Firefox with Tabbrowser Extensions, and you can arrange it so you'll never have a link open in a new window again. Neat huh?


    Neat. Also, completely, utterly, un-spatial. But a beautiful clue for all the spatial zealots saying their way is the one true way. Thank you.