On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 21:25, Arik Devens wrote: > On Tuesday, September 16, 2003, at 01:14 am, Ettore Perazzoli wrote: > > > Then it would be nice to have at least some proof that those users are > > a > > minority. As far as I can see, the overwhelming majority of computer > > users out there very happily uses the navigation model. > > > > Even better, Windows and Mac used to have an OO model, and both > > switched > > to a navigation model. Did they do that just for fun or was it a > > horrible mistake? (And if so, why aren't they fixing it?) > > As Seth pointed out, Windows never really had a true spatial model for > Explorer at all. It was always a weird mix of many things with very > little apparent thought put into the mechanics of it. > > As for Mac OS X, the loss of the spatial Finder from previous versions > of the OS is probably the most frequently heard complaint amongst Mac > pundits and users. I have heard many many many old time users complain > endlessly about the death of the original spatial Finder and the only > people I have seen who say they like it better are new users to the > platform who came from Windows or Linux. "But since they were vocal, they were intermediate users, and not representative of the majority." /me runs. (Note for the humour-impaired: JOKE!) > Oh, btw, one of the ways that the old Mac Finder made spatial easier > for more advanced users was the inclusion of the tree view. You could > open one window at the root level of the drive that was in tree view > and see the contents of the entire drive. It unfolded to even include > the files in the various folders. When you would double click on any of > the folders though, it would open in its own window, and close the > expanded view in the Finder window in tree view mode. This way the > spatial model was still being followed, while allowing a more advanced > view of the filesystem. Could be a useful thing to have in Nautilus, > and less likely to be patented then spring-loaded folders. Yes; I strongly suspect that we need a treeview of some sort in the spacial model, to get around the filesystem properly. A lot of people don't use the current treeview, but I think this is because it uses up a great chunk of the nautilus window - not relevant if it's in a separate window. -- Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>
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