Getting rid of Nautilus spacial garbage!

[Sepero]

A lot of people are upset about the new spatial way nautilus views files and folders. I personally am not upset about it, I'm just upset that they didn't add an easy feature such as "click here for classic browsing". Well, the easiest way I've found to revert nautilus is to put this in one of your startup scripts:
alias nautilus="nautilus --no-desktop --browser"

That will switch it back to regular old navigating. See ya later navigator.

[elderdays]

Originally posted by Sepero
See ya later navigator.

Corn Alert! :P Yea, I was getting upset there for awhile until I found out about the --no-desktop option. Didn't know about the --browser option though. Thanks. Guess I should nautilus --help some more.

[Sepero]

Ok, I've found a second way to accomplish this also.

From:
http://www.bytebot.net/geekdocs/spatial-nautilus.html

(gconf-editor)
Using GConf (Fedora -> System Tools -> Configuration Editor) and go to the /apps/nautilus/preferences key. You can then apply a tick alongside the always_use_browser key. Log out of GNOME, and upon re-logging in, your new changes would take effect.

[aNoob]

I was thinking the same about spacial view until I read this (http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7548) .
And then I have thought,I don't have to think Windows although even there you can switch to spacial.Everything is related to how fast you can find the file/folder you need. I think is always a matter of double clicking,spacial,navigational or not. My Gnome is on spatial now.And it will stay like that.Until recently I was using --no browser option.

[IsaacKuo]

I really don't understand what the big deal with "spacial" is. I had been using it since the good old days of the original Mac, the Amiga, and the Atari ST. They ALL used this "spacial" paradigm, and it worked fine when all you had were floppies.

Enter the 10meg hard drive, and the "spacial" paradigm became a neverending epic struggle against window sprawl.

Personally, I think the browser paradigm is solidly here to stay. Now that browsing the web has become the computer newbie "killer app", there's no avoiding learning the browser paradigm.

IMHO, the REAL direction we need to be going in is getting rid of the dreadful "double-click". Single-clicking matches the web browser paradigm, and is consistent with GUIs in general. Almost everything you can click on in the typical GUI is activated by a single click. Why should files be different? If you've ever tried teaching your Mom to use a computer, the following phrases might sound familiar:

"No, you need to double-click on that one."

"No, you only click on that icon once. If you click twice than it'll open up two of them."

"Umm, for some icons in the systray you need to double-click. For some you need to single-click. Some of them you need to right-click. It just depends."

Aaaauuggghhhh! Double-clicking is an abomination!:mad:

[MighMos]

Someone came out with a tool a while ago, "gTweakUI" that had an option for it. Link is http://gtweakui.sourceforge.net/ . Fairly simple stuff, but once it gets more developed I think it'd be a good addition to gnome.