[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #7837: [Tracker Preferences] Make "Single window navigation" default
- From: "axeld" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:38:07 -0000
#7837: [Tracker Preferences] Make "Single window navigation" default
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Reporter: deejam | Owner: axeld
Type: enhancement | Status: closed
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: Applications/Tracker | Version: R1/alpha3
Resolution: invalid | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Comment (by axeld):
I don't think David Feldman's article is of much help in this discussion
besides pointing out that it doesn't have to be a black&white thing. He
also seemed to be a bit confused about hierarchy vs. spatial, ie. there is
no vs. in the first place :-)
Anyway, pretty much the first thing that got added to OpenTracker once Be
open sourced it, was in fact single window browsing mode. It's not
questioned that many people prefer it - but due to what they know, as file
browsing pretty much sucks everywhere.
The only actual problem of spatial browsing for many is indeed having too
many open windows around. This can easily be avoided by using the right-
click navigation. Of course, people not familiar with this just won't use
it this way, and therefore won't like it. Most people have no idea about
the file hierarchy, and many people can't cope with windows either.
Browsing mode is not at all adequate for representing a hierarchy. That's
why Windows has the folder view in the left, and OS X has the tiled view.
However, Tracker does not have any of this; it's single browsing mode is
just not good enough to be the default. The spatial mode is the best
implementation of this method I've seen so far; it lets Haiku's file
management excel, no matter if you like it or not.
In any case, if a discussion about improving the current situation is
desired, this is not the right forum for this. Please start a thread on
the mailing list instead.
To pulkomandy: DirectoryOpus was only needed as file manager on the Amiga
as the Workbench was pretty much unusable for anything but launching apps
:-)
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