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

Living Down to a Low Standard (ComputerWorld)

Posted May 11, 2004 12:56 UTC (Tue) by wookey (subscriber, #5501)
In reply to: Living Down to a Low Standard (ComputerWorld) by sbergman27
Parent article: Living Down to a Low Standard (ComputerWorld)

> I have been running fedora rawhide for months and I can say without any reservation that spatial is virtually unusable. I tried to like it. I *really* tried to like it. But there is just nothing about it to like.

Fair, enough, but as I've pointed out before there are people who prefer the spatial browsing. All my users here complained when given the gnome 2.4 browser because 'everything keeps appearing in the same window - I can't find anything', and were very happy when I switched it to spatial browsing. For them the 2.6 default is 'correct'.

And petreley is wrong when he says no mature OS uses it - RISC OS does - that's a 20-year old OS these days and it has always worked this way and still does. It's not very popular these days, especially outside the UK and Germany, due to not being available for x86 hardware, but it's users are very happy with the UI, and always have been.

Personally I use MC for file navigation, even on the gnome desktop.

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