GNOME v. KDE, December 2005 edition [LWN.net]

GNOME v. KDE, December 2005 edition

Posted Dec 15, 2005 16:59 UTC (Thu) by tjc (guest, #137)
In reply to: GNOME v. KDE, December 2005 edition by lamikr
Parent article: GNOME v. KDE, December 2005 edition

Nautilus has two very good examples
- No option to turn off the spatial mode

I was afraid that might be the case. I couldn't find anything in the configuration/preferences/properties menus, but can't this be disabled in gconf?

I find all the extra windows to be a real nuisance. What I've done to adapt is to resize all my Nautilus windows to be the same size so that when I alt-tab back to the previous window the close icon is in the same location. So instead of "click, click, click", it's now "click alt-tab close, click alt-tab close, click alt-tab close." At least with the windows the same size I don't have to reaquire the close icon for each new window.

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GNOME v. KDE, December 2005 edition

Posted Dec 16, 2005 5:15 UTC (Fri) by coulamac (subscriber, #21690) [Link]

There are several ways to turn off spatial Nautilus. These two come to mind:

(From the FreeBSD FAQ for Gnome 2.12)

How do I disable spatial Nautilus?

As of GNOME 2.8, Nautilus operates in what is known as a "spatial" mode. This means that each item is opened in a new window. This may not be desirable to all users. If you wish to revert back to the old Nautilus file system browser, go to Desktop->Preferences->File Management, click on the Behavior tab, and check the "Always open in browser windows" checkbox.

Another way is to use gconf-editor:

change /apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_browser to true

GNOME v. KDE, December 2005 edition

Posted Dec 17, 2005 17:18 UTC (Sat) by tjc (guest, #137) [Link]

Yeah, that worked. I've been through Nautilus configuration dozens of times, but somehow I never associated "Always open in browser windows" with "don't open new windows." Thanks.