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The Spatial Way

The Spatial Way

Posted May 19, 2004 15:39 UTC (Wed) by ncm (subscriber, #165)
In reply to: The Spatial Way by Arker
Parent article: The Spatial Way

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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