Review: There are two primariy features that facilitate the spatial behavior of Nautilus: window memory and the "one window per folder" paradigm. Window memory will cause a Nautilus window to always open up exactly where you left it the last time, including the position of the scroll bar. When you first start using Nautilus, it doesn't know where you left the window last time, so it places them in seemingly random places. This may be frustrating at first, but once you have placed your windows where you want them, they will always show up there. Another possibly frustrating issue is that since Nautilus imposes the condition that only one window will represent any given folder, when digging into deep directories, your desktop is quickly cluttered with multiple windows. This is alleviated by double-clicking the middle mouse button or holding down the Shift key while clicking on the folder, which opens the child and closes the parent. This use has the same effect in Nautilus as holding down the Option key while double-clicking a folder icon does in the Finder in Mac OS 9 and earlier. Once you have placed a few windows and begin managing your files, it becomes easier. It helps that Nautilus' performance has improved remarkably with this release. more http://www.arstechnica.com/reviews/004/software/gnome-2.6/gnome-2.6-1.html