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Published June 1st, 2004 by Jim O'Halloran

GNOME 2.6 Nautilus

The Spatial Way explains what the “spacial” navigation in GNOME 2.6’s Nautilus actually means, and why its better.

Much has been said, and been discussed about “spatial views”. Ever since the GNOME hackers decided that Nautilus, the file manager in GNOME, would sport a spatial way of working by default, the word “spatial” has been in just about every other mailing list or review of the desktop environment.

I’ve been using Fedore Core 2 on and off since it’s release and I’d heard about the “spacial” interface, but I actually couldn’t see the difference myself. Personally I don’t mind it, it mimics by default how I always configured my Windows systems.

Of couse, what I really want now is to find a way of making it open up in a Windows Explorer style two paned mode.

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