For some reason (I’ve not looked into it, so someone please tell me) Ubuntu decided to break the spatial nautilus in Hoary (5.04). Now when you open folder, it opens in a new window (as before), but is closes the previous one.
Not good.
Fortunately, there’s a (relatively) easy way of fixing this:
- Run
gconf-editor(Applications -> System Tools -> Configuration Editor for the mouse-bound)
- Navigate to the key
/apps/nautilus/preferences
- Tick the checkbox for
no_ubuntu_spatial
- Sit back and relax, knowing all is now well in the world once more
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The reason is: people went “whine, whine, whine, I get loads of windows all over my desktop, whine, whine” and someone decided to fix the problem by completely breaking the point of a spatial file manager. Bah. I was deeply unhappy about this, especially since it got whipped in five nanoseconds before Hoary was released afaict. If they’ve decided that the spatial approach is wrong then I might disagree with them, but at least they’d have made a decent decision. But now they’ve gone from proper spatial to a half-arsed spatial, which is rubbish. Apparently a patch to make the preference user-visible (gconf doesn’t count, although that’s what I did too
) is done and will be integrated.
Thank you for clearing that up.<br />
<br />
They made a very bad decision in my opinion.
It’s as spatial as before I think.<br />
<br />
Before : <br />
double left clic -> open in a new window<br />
double middle clic -> open in a new window and close the old one.<br />
<br />
Now:<br />
double left clic -> open in a new window<br />
and close the old one.<br />
double middle clic -> open in a new window <br />
<br />
For me it’s a good thing…