Why every sub-folder opens in new window?

buglinux · 02-08-2006, 04:34 AM

HI all,
I am new to linux.and I have installed fedora core 2 on my system.it successfully installed and i have mounted windows drives successfully.but the only problem is when i open any sub-folder it opens in new window. I want to open it in the same window so please someone help me. Is there any settings to do that?

Thank you,
Paras.

Sargek · 02-08-2006, 04:40 AM

Are you running Gnome or KDE?

hardcorelinux · 02-08-2006, 04:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by buglinux

HI all,
I am new to linux.and I have installed fedora core 2 on my system.it successfully installed and i have mounted windows drives successfully.but the only problem is when i open any sub-folder it opens in new window. I want to open it in the same window so please someone help me. Is there any settings to do that?

Thank you,
Paras.

Check your file browser options , view option chould be ther you can change it,

buglinux · 02-08-2006, 07:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sargek

Are you running Gnome or KDE?

mostprobably I think I am running Gnome.....

GlowGlow · 02-08-2006, 08:45 AM

Welcome to the world of spatial browsing

. This post describes two ways it can be turned off:

https://listman.redhat.com/archives/.../msg00315.html

Sargek · 02-08-2006, 05:28 PM

Yes, Nautilus spatial browsing was rather controversial when it came out. Some people love it and others hate it. I turn it off, personally.

IsaacKuo · 02-08-2006, 09:30 PM

Yeah, "spatial browsing" was revolutionary--BACK IN 1984. The Mac as well as the Mac inspired Amiga and Atari ST all used "spatial browsing", which was a perfectly fine way of doing things back when home computers didn't have hard drives. With floppy discs, opening up folders into a new window meant you didn't have to waste time navigating back and forth between folders.

But with the larger capacity of hard drives, this was just a recipe for massive screen clutter headaches.