Comment Corporate Environment (Score 2, Insightful) 925
I'm basically a lurker, but I can't let this "article" go by without some sort of comment.
I remember this sort of metaphor from windows 95. I hated it then and turned it off, not because I am an uninformed luddite, ignorant of the One True Way, but because I ended up swimming in windows and that was a real pain in the ass.
No doubt our fine author would tell me that I am at fault for having a directory structure which is too deep. This *might* be a valid argument in small scale home directories, but what about accessing the corporate network?
We have literally millions of files broken out by department or project. The directory structure is both wide and deep, and not because we don't know how to organize our files. Just try rolling out spatial Gnome in this environment. No one wants to pay for this level of retraining and no one wants the aggravation.
A good idea? Maybe. Scalable to even a mid-sized corporate environment? No.
I remember this sort of metaphor from windows 95. I hated it then and turned it off, not because I am an uninformed luddite, ignorant of the One True Way, but because I ended up swimming in windows and that was a real pain in the ass.
No doubt our fine author would tell me that I am at fault for having a directory structure which is too deep. This *might* be a valid argument in small scale home directories, but what about accessing the corporate network?
We have literally millions of files broken out by department or project. The directory structure is both wide and deep, and not because we don't know how to organize our files. Just try rolling out spatial Gnome in this environment. No one wants to pay for this level of retraining and no one wants the aggravation.
A good idea? Maybe. Scalable to even a mid-sized corporate environment? No.
