Comment by 🛸 bluesman
Re: "Inspired by the spatial file manager behavior of Haiku OS,…"
I'm confused (which isn't necessarily surprising). Doesn't "Open In New Window" solve these complaints?
Apr 10 · 4 weeks ago
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🚀 lars_the_bear · Apr 10 at 16:40:
@bluesman : "Doesn't "Open In New Window" solve these complaints?"
Sure. That's what I mean about giving the user a choice.
On recent versions of FireFox, I need plug-ins to re-enable the ability to open certain kinds of content in a new window. The use of tabs is so entrenched that the maintainers seem to find it hard to believe that not everybody likes them.
There was an Ars Technica editor at the time, who was obsessed with spatial user interfaces, that wrote many in-depth articles on the subject. But for a Gemini (or other line-oriented protocol) browser, I think a columnar interface would be more natural. IIRC, the first browsers too, by using arrow keys for navigation, were built on that intuition.
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Inspired by the spatial file manager behavior of Haiku OS, I think it would be convenient to apply this to the Gemini browser as well. It would be a much better solution than the tabs typical of web browsers.