GNOME v. KDE, December 2005 edition

Posted Dec 14, 2005 23:19 UTC (Wed) by lamikr (guest, #2289)
Parent article: GNOME v. KDE, December 2005 edition

Gnome is getting better, but sometimes this "gap is there explicitly by design" thing feels like a religious war or something like "well we do in this way because it is our principle. and because of principles we are prepared to do even bad things".

Nautilus has two very good examples
- No option to turn off the spatial mode
- No turn to force to open by default in the tree mode

Mika

GNOME v. KDE, December 2005 edition

Posted Dec 15, 2005 16:59 UTC (Thu) by tjc (guest, #137) [Link] (2 responses)

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.

GNOME v. KDE, December 2005 edition

Posted Dec 16, 2005 5:15 UTC (Fri) by coulamac (guest, #21690) [Link] (1 responses)

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.