Spatial mess prevention

Posted by Jorge Bernal April 02, 2005

Today, at #ubuntu-motu, I noticed the last update of nautilus package:

nautilus (2.10.0-0ubuntu7) hoary; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/02_ubuntuspatial.patch:
    - changes to the spatial mode. Close the folders by default while browsing.
      You can set "/apps/nautilus/preferences/no_ubuntu_spatial" to get the
      previous spatial behaviour.

 -- Sebastien Bacher   Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:17:33 +0200

But I think, like quite others, that this behaviour may not be the best option. We could discuss that forever and lose a lot of our precious time.

Better than this, is to develop an alternative solution. Let the Technical Board, the sabdfl, or whoever has taken that decision happy, and let the user choose at the same time :)

Screenshot of new option for spatial behaviour

The dpatch is at 02ubuntuspatial.patch, or a new version of nautilus at nautilus2.10.0-0ubuntu8.diff.gz. My changelog:

nautilus (2.10.0-0ubuntu8) hoary; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/02_ubuntuspatial.patch:
    - use more consistent names (close_previous_windows) and add a GUI option in
    preferences dialog to set the default behaviour.

 -- Jorge Bernal   Sat,  2 Apr 2005 01:45:25 +0200
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One Response to “Spatial mess prevention”

  1. koke says:

    Today, at #ubuntu-motu, I noticed the last update of nautilus package:

    nautilus (2.10.0-0ubuntu7) hoary; urgency=low
    
      * debian/patches/02_ubuntuspatial.patch:
        - changes to the spatial mode. Close the folders by default while browsing.
          You can set "/apps/nautilus/preferences/no_ubuntu_spatial" to get the
          previous spatial behaviour.
    
     -- Sebastien Bacher   Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:17:33 +0200
    

    But I think, like quite others, that this behaviour may not be the best option. We could discuss that forever and lose a lot of our precious time.

    Better than this, is to develop an alternative solution. Let the Technical Board, the sabdfl, or whoever has taken that decision happy, and let the user choose at the same time :)

    Screenshot of new option for spatial behaviour

    The dpatch is at 02ubuntuspatial.patch, or a new version of nautilus at nautilus2.10.0-0ubuntu8.diff.gz. My changelog:

    nautilus (2.10.0-0ubuntu8) hoary; urgency=low
    
      * debian/patches/02_ubuntuspatial.patch:
        - use more consistent names (close_previous_windows) and add a GUI option in
        preferences dialog to set the default behaviour.
    
     -- Jorge Bernal   Sat,  2 Apr 2005 01:45:25 +0200
    

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