Re: You know, it's funny.
Do you remember when Mac OS X made its first public appearances? Spatial was gone. Dead. Finder was "just another app" according to Steve. The future was documents in the Finder, photos in iPhoto, and music in iTunes. It was existing Mac users (the ones that liked spatial at least) that cried and whined until Apple reimplemented a half-assed spatial mode that still isn't near the standards of the original while the non-spatial mode has undergone refinement and enhancement in every version.
I also find it funny that some of the original developers of Nautilus (Andy Hertzfeld is the one that comes to mind) at Eazel were designers of the classic Mac OS, yet they didn't choose a spatial model for their new file manager. I wonder why that is.
I'd like to see GNOME or one of it's corporate sponsors do some actual new research and see if a spatial desktop is still the best system for most users with today's data volumes rather than relying on decades old Apple research (done when Macs had a single 400k floppy drive) and one in depth article by spatial fan John Siracusa as they appear to have done.
