Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 123971
Nautilus should not default to spatial mode
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:43 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.2) Gecko/20040301 Description of problem: I hate spatial mode, but this unimportannt. What is important is that Everything points to 95% people hating it. It is also unfamiliar to people thus they will not be at ease with it. And spatial mode is difficult to disable since it is not possible to disable it from the options menu: you have to use Gconf for it. Kind a editing the register base. RedHat should try to find what is people's opinion about spatial mode. If, like I suspect, most people hate it then it should have it disabled by default. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. N/A 2. 3. Expected Results: N/A Additional info:
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I must say that I'm curious why Redhat has been so belligerent on this point. If you won't default back to the old, useable behaviour, why not at leat make it possible for a novice user to decide for themselves (ie. put it in Nautilus preferences)? I set up numerous Fedora machines for friends (who themselves would be a little scared poking around in the Windows registry) and it is a major detraction to have to explain to them "well, you can use this nasty editor to change the behaviour..."
I am also curious since I nver told RedHat had to change the default to please ME but to take the opinion of its _customers_ and act accordingly (ie not necessarily according to my wishes). The opinion of customers not the feelings of Gnome people is what should matter. I was with RedHat when the KDE people were whinning about BlueCurve, let's see if this time it takes again the right decision: customers first or if it cavec to the Gnome people.