Inside the GNOME 2.6 Desktop & Developer Platform

[Nikos Charonitakis]

Review:
There are two primariy features that facilitate the spatial behavior of
Nautilus: window memory and the "one window per folder" paradigm. Window
memory will cause a Nautilus window to always open up exactly where you
left it the last time, including the position of the scroll bar. When
you first start using Nautilus, it doesn't know where you left the
window last time, so it places them in seemingly random places. This may
be frustrating at first, but once you have placed your windows where you
want them, they will always show up there. Another possibly frustrating
issue is that since Nautilus imposes the condition that only one window
will represent any given folder, when digging into deep directories,
your desktop is quickly cluttered with multiple windows. This is
alleviated by double-clicking the middle mouse button or holding down
the Shift key while clicking on the folder, which opens the child and
closes the parent. This use has the same effect in Nautilus as holding
down the Option key while double-clicking a folder icon does in the
Finder in Mac OS 9 and earlier. Once you have placed a few windows and
begin managing your files, it becomes easier. It helps that Nautilus'
performance has improved remarkably with this release.


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