The reason is: people went “whine, whine, whine, I get loads of windows all over my desktop, whine, whine” and someone decided to fix the problem by completely breaking the point of a spatial file manager. Bah. I was deeply unhappy about this, especially since it got whipped in five nanoseconds before Hoary was released afaict. If they’ve decided that the spatial approach is wrong then I might disagree with them, but at least they’d have made a decent decision. But now they’ve gone from proper spatial to a half-arsed spatial, which is rubbish. Apparently a patch to make the preference user-visible (gconf doesn’t count, although that’s what I did too :)) is done and will be integrated.

Thank you for clearing that up.<br />
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They made a very bad decision in my opinion.

It&#8217;s as spatial as before I think.<br />
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Before : <br />
double left clic -> open in a new window<br />
double middle clic -> open in a new window and close the old one.<br />
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Now:<br />
double left clic -> open in a new window<br />
and close the old one.<br />
double middle clic -> open in a new window <br />
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For me it&#8217;s a good thing&#8230;