On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 13:40 +0100, Calum Benson wrote: > On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 09:49 +0530, Ritesh Khadgaray wrote: > > Hey, > > > > Out of curiosity, Why is nautilus spatial and the rest of desktop > > not ? > > I think the reason is simply, "we had to start somewhere" :) And enough > people have expressed some dissatisfaction with the nautilus spatial > implementation that we'd want to consider similar changes in any other > applications pretty carefully.
Have one switch enable spatial desktop rather than individual application having this setting. > > To be honest, I'm also not clear what 'spatial' means for other > applications anyway. E.g. Daniel Borgmann writes about your scratchpad Same here, still trying to learn about this. > example: > > In true spatial philosophy, it is not possible to create a new > document from inside a scratchpad window, instead you will have > to create a new document using your file manager and then open > it. > > which I'd say, in itself at least, isn't much to do with spatial UIs > (and as an aside, it would probably drive me mad!) Without having used > it, it sounds to me more like it's just a document-driven rather than an > application-driven UI, which always sounds like a great idea until you > try to design a whole desktop around it :) random thoughts from my mind Totem is a video player, and can be made spatial - remember window position, time, state ( play/pause...) . Image viewer can have a spatial mode ( a gconf key ? to remember this ) Documents viewer ( pdf ) can remember there setting per document basis . Text editor - already have an example. Additionally, we can associate an application to a particular document only ( not document type ) > > Cheeri, > Calum. > -- Ritesh Khadgaray LinuX N Stuff Ph: +919822394463 Eat Right, Exercise, Die Anyway. _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
