On 8/28/06, Ritesh Khadgaray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But spatial is another matter. Changing from non-spatial to spatial > > involves big UI changes (just look at nautilus as an example), and > > someone using a "spatial" desktop could as well want to keep a classical > > view for some apps. And depending on the context it might be more useful > > to have MDI instead of spatial things. It's really on an application basis. > which means, if at any point of time gnome desktop goes completely > spatial i would have to manually enable spatial feature for all > application ?
I would hope that it would use a mechanism similar to Nautilus, where opening a document icon would open a spatial interface to this document, while you could still open the application itself to get a multi document interface. > why not add a setting for global preference, which applications can > override ? Well I for one would ignore this setting, since it wouldn't make sense for Scratchpad to open a project window when a single document was accessed from the file browser. Daniel _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
