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The Spatial WayThe Spatial WayPosted May 19, 2004 13:09 UTC (Wed) by Arker (guest, #14205)Parent article: The Spatial Way I've got to say I have very mixed views on this. I think it's great that they're doing this sort of work on useability. And I think the 'spatial' way, when done consistently (the old Mac was almost consistent, the Windows attempt to copy it was extremely inconsistent, and the Nautilus version appears to be at least as consistent as the old Mac way) is easier for a brand new, computer-illiterate user. I've got no problem with that being the default even. But, I find it a horrible interface for my own work, and I think that it's probably going to be a horrible interface for anyone that's not a total computer newbie coming in. It should be much easier to change the defaults, and the whole trend I'm seeing in gnome to hide or even eliminate the controls for things like this I really don't like at all. It will be interesting, at any rate, to see how this works out in the long haul.
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The Spatial Way Posted May 19, 2004 15:39 UTC (Wed) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link] It's certainly not groundbreaking to copy the old Mac Finder interface. That metaphor was a brilliant idea in its day for managing what fit on a 400K floppy disk. It proved not to scale well to the large numbers of files that end up on multigigabyte disks, and even Apple eventually abandoned it.My only complaint about Nautilus, though, is that it is often hard to get rid of it. Packages to install GNOME components too often have pointless dependencies on it, and too many times I have ended up downloading, installing, and then deleting it.
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