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[Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek]

Dnia 27-03-2008, czw o godzinie 15:00 +0000, Jonathan Underwood pisze:
> On 27/03/2008, Dimi Paun <dimi at lattica.com> wrote:
> >
> >  On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 09:17 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> >  > I have "real" filesystem stuff, I just make proper use of when to
> >  > double click and when to shift-double click.
> >
> >  And you do that because the spacial concept (while interesting), is
> >  broken as a UI metaphor for folders.
> >
> >  Spacial makes a lot of sense for "objects": computer, Network, a disk.
> >  Those have real-world corespondents, and people relate to that. However,
> >  for most people, folders are seen as a _path_ to the object that you
> >  want to work with. (duh, we even call it a "path" ...)
> >
> >  Any sane engineering/UI design/consistency principle that was listed in
> >  this discussion suggests that going with a non-spacial default is the
> >  only reasonable thing to do. Not only would we please a lot more users,
> >  we wouldn't be violating the principle of least surprise, but from the
> >  use cases listed, it seems that even the spacial-proponents would be
> >  just as happy.
> >
> >  Folks, this is not a corner case -- it's the first thing new users bang
> >  their heads on. And it creates a bad impression. It's an interesting
> >  idea, it had 4 years to prove itself, it failed. Listing all sorts of
> >  theoretical reasons why it _should_ be better is just mental
> >  masturbation.
> 
> Personally speaking, the whole spatial nautilus thing became a lot
> more usable when I realized what the middle mouse button click does.

O! Nice!

Thanks for the tip :) .

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Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek
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