Re: MANY windows for SAME folder opened

[Alexander Skwar <alexanders mailinglists+nospam gmail com>]

Hi.

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 13:25, Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 09:29 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:

>> > Also in some situations it might not be what you want,
>>
>> Provide an option "Open in new window", then the user can decide and
>> Gnome/Nautilus doesn't have to guess *G*
>
> Thats not really constructive. Every technically possible behaviour
> should not be supported by adding options for it. We should support a
> small, well defined set of options for workflows we think make sense and
> are important enought to offset the cost (to maintainership and ui
> clutter).

Depends... Since you can't please everybody and people may want
to do things "in the opposite way" (so to say), options aren't bad, but
actually required.

>> > I'm generally not sure what the exact behaviour people are expecting from
>> > the new "open each folder in new window" mode (or how useful it is), so
>>
>> For me, the current behaviour isn't useful at all. One reason is, that it takes
>> too long to open a window. Easily one to two seconds. And the flood of open
>> windows is a *HUGE* PITA!
>
> So, why do you keep wanting to open new windows then?

The old way allowed me to VERY easily switch / jump to different folders.
With the old way, there was just the "new window delay penalty" once.
Once a window was open, all was good and quick.

> Just disable that
> option, its not the default or anything.

Yes, with the current implementatoion, I'm certainly going to disable it. The
old way really was better.

>> > I'm not sure what the right thing to do here is. What does e.g. explorer
>> > do in this mode?
>>
>> Explorer of Windows XP (I don't have Windows 7) behaves like Gnome 2
>> used to behave - only ONE window for ONE folder.
>
> No, explorer is not truly spatial like gnome 2 was.

I guess, I don't know what was spatial then ;) All I can say, is that
I liked the
old behaviour better. And also the way Explorer XP handles the "new window
for every folder" option. For me, the way Nautilus behaves now (with this
option) doesn't make sense at all. I really do not need to see this "!
Unsortiert !"
folder 8923 times, just because I've passed through this folder 8923 times.
That is nonesense, as far as I'm concerned.

Alexander