On 9/18/07, Nicu Buculei <nicu_fedora(a)nicubunu.ro> wrote:
Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote:
> Nicu Buculei escribió:
>>
>> Changing the default from Spatial to Browser could also generate the
>> backslash of people ranting on their blogs about Browser not being the
>> best choice, blog complaints are not an useful metric.
>
> If that were the case, why doesn't people complaint about Konqueror
> being "browser mode - only"? I too believe that the default should be
Probably because Konqueror was always browser only?
> made the mode which is actually *easier* to use and not the more
> "convenient" to use, as apparently only "Power Users" like and
use
This may be because effective use of our spatial mode require unusual
shortcuts (double-click with the wheel), which only "power users" bother
to remember.
I have been thinking of adding an open to nautilus that allows
changing the button behavior. left clicking opening a window and
closing a parent and using middle-click to keep them open. Personally
I love spatial mode, but I still wish I had that behavior.
> spatial mode (I still have to find someone who likes it in the
first
> place). From a user perspective, it would seem that regular users and
> inexperienced users are the ones pleading for browser mode.
I think you are really referring to Windows comfortable users here.
Most the inexperienced users I have put in front of gnome really find
spatial intuitive. My fiance has all her different photo/movie/music
windows opening on her screen just so. Now if only there was a better
way to organize her desktop :-)
I won't argue either way, I don't have the means to conduct such
experiment but someone else in this thread (Brian) argued for the
opposite, so I believe you found at least one :p
Personally I think the gnome community has gone through the change
once, and we should stick with it.
Jon