[Thunar-workers] [DokuWiki] page changed: ui:spatial

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Date        : 2005/02/21 23:21
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Old Revision: http://thunar.xfce.org/wiki/ui:spatial?rev=1109020771
New Revision: http://thunar.xfce.org/wiki/ui:spatial
Edit Summary: meh
User        : benny

@@ -16,12 +16,11 @@
  the requirement, why not simply use //spatial view//? Why write this
  Wiki page, instead of writing the code already? Mostly because of
  the users (useless to talk about trolls here, so we'll concentrate
  on the real target users):
- 
  
  ===== The user problem =====
- While spatial views make things easier (that's the whole point in
+ While spatial views make things easier (that's the whole point
  about them actually), many people are too dependent on the more
  complex views. They've used them for years, and their minds have
  trouble getting used to a "new" concept. If you are new to computing,
  it's definetly easier for you to get used to a spatial interface,
@@ -40,17 +39,17 @@
  been missing for a long time, quite confusing. Being ignorant, my
  first thought was: //GUI file managers (esp. spatial ones) are for
  wimps//... ehm, did I say that I work on a file manager? ;-)
  
- Ok, then I decided to power-on my brain, and I realize that it
+ Ok, then I decided to power-on my brain, and I realized that it
  wasn't the file manager that was bad, but my handling of files and
  directories was wrong. I had way too many nearly empty directories,
  and everything was nested too deeply, and the result was that my
  desktop was cluttered with folder windows (browser mode wasn't
  better here, since the treepane on the left gets useless as well,
  if you browse deep into a directory structure). I could tell more
  about my personal inabilities, but we're not here
- to blog, but we're to work - **blog less, work more!** ;-)
+ to blog, but we're here to work - yannow **blog less, work more!** ;-)
  
  So to sum up: The basic problem with a spatial file manager
  interface is located in the (advanced) user's mind. Unfortunately
  patching the corresponding code is impossible most of the times,



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