Linked by Marcus Carlson on Wed 21st Jul 2004 18:17 UTC
In these days there has been much fuzzing about the new browsing with files organizing themselves with the help of meta data. Maybe you ask yourself "What have this to do with the spatial browsing in gnome and how can it improve the browsing?". That's what I did. As I see it, the gnome people have introduced the spatial browsing so we are used to it when this new browsing is coming to town. This is very intelligent move of the gnome people and will help us adopt faster to this. This is when the spatial browsing is really making sense. I hope you see this when you've read this article.
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Sorry, I don't get it!
Just hours after yet another post about how to fix nautilus... Don't get me wrong, spatial could be useful to some people but:
1) I am not convinced it should be the default - debatable
2) There should be an option to switch it off - I know it is in cvs/2.8 whatever, what scares me is the fact that it wasn't there in the first place! Anyone doing proper usability studies would have thought, yeah maybe the user who digs in the menu should be able to present things any way he likes.
Metadata is great but it has *nothing* to do with spatial navigation.
That thing belongs in the vfs layer, how you get to it is another matter entirely!