Christian: The point of the whining isn't that a change has been made. The point of the whining is that a change has been made (1) which sucks, and heavily imacts the user experience (2) two weeks before a release, and (3) in everyone's new favourite distribution. Oh, and (4) from the looks of the bugzilla comments, as a unilateral decision by the boss.

I would have preferred if they had added a toggle in the preferences, and defaulted to the other "standard" Nautilus behaviour of the browser. In addition, that would probably be much more pleasing to the vast tracts of Windows and KDE users out there who seem to expect that and find Spatial annoying. Then I could just switch on spatial, and be done with it.