On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 12:06, Steve Bergman wrote:
I also detest spatial. I've tried to like it. I've asked
others what
they like about it and tried to appreciate those features. And I still
despise spatial.
And everyone else seemed to - change is hard, but everyone gets used to
it. Mac OS X is simple today and simplicity is key - there are plenty of
arguments as to why to go spatial
I think the really important question, though, is which is easier
for
new users. And I can't help but feel that spatial makes things
unnecessarily confusing to the novice and hides too many features that a
novice *would* want. It's a simple switch in gconf. I strongly believe
that fedora should ship with spatial turned off by default. More
advanced users will know how to turn it on if they want it.
No, because GNOME 2.6 ships with spatial mode Nautilus turned on, and a
key to being a "good member" with regards to Fedora is to not fiddle too
much with what upstream is providing
I'm curious, was spatial just someone's neat idea or is it
backed up by
some sort of usability study, or commonly accepted UI principles?
Plenty of usability studies. Read desktop-devel-list@gnome archives, or
even usability@gnome. Many websites out there have links to stating why
its useful, its not only the OS X feature... Ars Technica had a writeup
that did bear a lot of influence on the GNOME team though
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