On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 08:45, Steve Bergman wrote:
> Plenty of usability studies. Read desktop-devel-list@gnome
archives, or
> even usability@gnome. Many websites out there have links to stating why
> its useful, its not only the OS X feature... Ars Technica had a writeup
> that did bear a lot of influence on the GNOME team though
Could you point me to a specific thread? Searching desktop-devel-list
and usability archives for "spatial" only serves to indicate that there
was very little discussion and that most of the commentary about opening
folders in their own windows was negative. I saw no mentions of any
usability studies at all.
Well, a link was posted:
http://www.arstechnica.com/paedia/f/finder/finder-2.html
Searching around that might help too
As to being a nice player, if the nautilus guys jump off a bridge, I
see
no reason that Fedora necessarily needs to follow. Spatial still looks
like a UI disaster to me. I hope I'm wrong.
Fedora aims to keep in line with mainstream as close as possible - if
you hate the view, take it up with the GNOME developers
(whom will promptly most likely ignore you on d-d-l, since its been
discussed and beaten to death)
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