How To Deal With The Spatial Paradigm
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."
As far as I am concerned file managers like Nautilus, Windows, and Mac OSX can put as much effert into their work as they please, but they can never get the functionability of a "two plane" file manager like Gentoo:
http://www.obsession.se/gento o
There are many of this sort, but Gentoo is by far the best. Sadly doesn't the author like GTK2, so he won't port it=(