Re: Spatial Mode Window Cluttering and Possible Solutions



Notifications often tend to more annoying than helpful to most users (even the unobtrusive ones like the firefox yellow bar). Use shouldn't have to read long manuals to find out how to active a funciton (especially an imporant one): the process should be apparant and intuitive.

David Cantin <david_cantin videotron ca> wrote:
I think Shift Click and Double Middle Click are just great! They are
just hard to discover, so when a user have more than n open nautilus
spatial window you (and not me... I'm just a simple user who enjoy shift
click) could add a "notification" or something else, that respect the
hig, that explain how these feature work.

David

Le dimanche 17 avril 2005 à 23:23 -0400, Yuan Qi a écrit :

Ubuntu Bugzilla Entry: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9125

Nautilus spatial is a very user friendly way to navigate files, however, it
creates window clutter for users who use deep folder trees. I think a
discussion
needs to be made on how to improve the spatial mode, especially when we
start
considering all the controversies created by
https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8516

Here is my suggestion of a new spatial behaviour:

A folder will be automatically minimized when the user opens one of its
subfolders for the first time.

If the *very next* action performed by the user *on the autominimized
folder* is
to bring it up again, then a flag will be set to tell nautilus not to
autominimize it the next time.

That folder will not be minimized the next time the user opens a
subfolder from
that folder.

If the *very next* action performed by the user on *that particular parent
window* this time is to minimize it, then the flag will be deleted and the
folder will be autominimized the next time.

This suggestion, however, will not solve the cluttering on the taskbar. So I
want to make another suggestion to the behaviour of the taskbar that
goes with
the above suggestion:

Only the non-minimized window will have an explicit entry on the taskbar. In
order to access the minimized parent windows, the user should use the
path menu,
which can be brought up by clicking on the path button on the bottom
left corner
of the folder window, or by clicking and hold the taskbar entry for more
than
one second (similar to how the tool button groups work in Adobe Photoshop).

Of course, people will argue that this is very unintuitive to novice users, but this confusion should be largely resovle with properly designed window minimization animation.

ps. My description of the feature might be worded poorly, so please free
to ask
me to clarify my wording.








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