Bug#504518: Default mode for nautilus is not browse.

[Jeremy]

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On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> wrote:
Le mardi 04 novembre 2008 à 13:55 -0500, Jeremy Salwen a écrit :
> In debian, the default mode for nautilus is for it to open everything in a
new window.  This means that
> if you open a folder, the old one stays open, and thus you build up a huge
stack of windows if you
> don't close the old one every time you open a new one.  On top of that,
the windows open very close to
> right on top of eachother, so when attempting to close the old window, you
must be careful not to close
> the one you want to open.  I suppose that this is necessary as there is no
back button in the
> non-browsing mode, but it doesn't seem like there is any benifit to having
the non-browsing mode.
>
> I don't see any case in which the non-browsing mode is preferred over
browsing mode, which is why I
> suggest browsing mode be the default.  Normally I would just start
nautilus with --browse and not
> suggest changing anything, but other applications open nautilius, such as
gnome-mount-applet, and when
> they do so, it is not in browsing mode.

You can change the default in the nautilus preferences.

The default will remain spatial mode for the moment, though.

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Is there a reason spatial mode is the default?  Is there some
benefit to it?

Jeremy

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