On Fri, 4 Sep 2009 20:44:08 -0400, Ryan Leavengood said: > > Yes. The spatial desktop concept (which Tracker was based around) > > requires that no 2 windows represent the same folder. The desktop > > is > > always open as, well, your desktop. :) > > Except that right now it is possible to open two windows for the same > folder in different workspaces. While I assume that is by design, I > think it breaks the spatial concept a bit. I just tried it and you are right. I don't remember this being possible in BeOS and I have no idea why would someone implement this. So right now we have a broken spatial desktop and a brolen non-spatial desktop. Nice compromise. :( Really, I am a *HUGE* fan of spatial desktops and this is one of the big reasons for me to be a BeOS fan since I first saw it. I do understand that people may not like it and I am fine with that but the solutions being presented are, from my point of view, just canibalizing Tracker and turning it into a even bigger mess than it already is. This looks like buying a car and deciding that we wanted a boat instead so now we are adding all these appendages to it but instead of hving a boat we still have a car that looks like a boat and that, when sent to water, has billions of roles eberywhere. Then we are using bubble-gum to fix those. > Of course I'm not sure what the best solution would be to avoid that? I think avoiding that is the correct thing to do. Or we can buy more bubble-gum. > Moving the window for that folder to the current workspace and > removing it from the other? Or changing the workspace to where the > folder is already open? I think bringing the folder to the current desktop if you try to open it again is a sensible choice. > Or just leaving it as it is I suppose ;) I was fine with that until I learned how it was now. :P I guess this is a use case I never had. -Bruno