Spatial file manager

Concept in computing Nautilus (in older versions) is a file manager with a spatial mode. Each of these windows is an open folder. In computing, a spatial file manager is a file manager that uses a spatial metaphor to represent files and folders as if they were real physical objects. Concepts The base requirements of a spatial file manager are: Each folder is represented by a single window. Each window is unambiguously and irrevocably tied to a particular folder. Stability: files, folders, and windows go where the user moves them, stay where the user puts them ("preserve their spatial state"), and retain all their other "physical" characteristics (like size, shape, color and location). The same item can only be viewed in one window at a time. Given an arbitrary window in a spatial file manager, it must be possible to determine with complete certainty which folder that window represents. Furthermore, it must not be possible to change that association. Traditionally, when a folder is opened, the icon representing the folder changes —perhaps from an image showing a closed drawer to an opened one, perhaps the folder's icon turns into a silhouette filled with a pattern— and a new win