Living Down to a Low Standard (ComputerWorld) [LWN.net]

Living Down to a Low Standard (ComputerWorld)

Posted May 11, 2004 3:11 UTC (Tue) by elanthis (guest, #6227)
In reply to: Living Down to a Low Standard (ComputerWorld) by sbergman27
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Do note that Fedora only very recently got the completed Nautilus with completed spatial mode. If you are basing your opinion on code that was in there months ago, you are basing your opinion on half-finished work.

I've found spatial nautilus to be a complete pleasure. Faster, simpler, cleaner, and easier. And that's coming from someone who lives in a shell prompt most of the time and develops a lot of web (navigational) software. Advanced user if ever there was one, and yet I do indeed prefer spatial. Same as the GNOME developers that implemented spatial mode.

So far as Windows/OS X, neither are good indicators of user preference of spatial vs navigational. Most OS X users I've spoken too prefer the old spatial finder over the OS X navigational finder. And Windows was _never_ spatial at all; spatial means a hell of a lot more than just "opens folder in new window," which is the only similarity spatial nautilus has to old Windows file manager.

If you don't like spatial, use browser mode. If you don't like Nautilus, use Velocity. If you don't like GNOME, quit wasting your time bitching and just use something else. I find GNOME to be the best desktop around, and so do quite a few other users. If it's not to your taste, fine. Nobody is forcing you to use it.

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Living Down to a Low Standard (ComputerWorld)

Posted May 11, 2004 15:56 UTC (Tue) by Prototerm (guest, #20227) [Link]

If you don't like GNOME, quit wasting your time bitching and just use something else.

It's so nice when two people have a polite conversation, listening to what the other has to say, without resorting to name-calling and the like. After all, to do otherwise would be so...Slashdot...wouldn't it?

And while the above quote makes a good point, let's remember that distros like Red Hat are designed to work best with Gnome, and that tools like Ximian's desktop require it. The user may feel they don't have a choice in using Gnome for their particular situation. Second, they may actually love Gnome, except for that one feature that drives them crazy.