GNOME Files

Files

Screenshot of GNOME Files 3.14
Developer(s) GNOME
Initial release March 13, 2001 (2001-03-13)
Stable release 3.22.2 (9 November 2016 (2016-11-09)[1]) [±]
Preview release 3.23.2 (23 November 2016 (2016-11-23)[2]) [±]
Repository git.gnome.org/browse/nautilus
Written in C (GTK+)
Operating system Unix-like
Platform GNOME
Available in Multilingual
Type File manager
License GNU Lesser General Public License
Website wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Nautilus
Whether GNOME Files shows a mount or not, is determined by the option x-gvfs-show for the gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor process.[3] Screenshot of GNOME Disks.

GNOME Files, formerly and internally Nautilus, is the official file manager for the GNOME desktop. The nautilus name was a play on words, evoking the shell of a nautilus to represent an operating system shell. Nautilus replaced Midnight Commander in GNOME 1.4 (2001)[4] and has been the default from version 2.0 onwards.

Nautilus was the flagship product of the now-defunct Eazel Inc. Released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, Nautilus is free software.

History

Nautilus was first released in 2001 and development has continued ever since. The following is a brief timeline of its development history:

Features

Bookmarks, window backgrounds, notes, and add-on scripts are all implemented, and the user has the choice between icon, list, or compact list views. In browser mode, Nautilus keeps a history of visited folders, similar to web browsers, permitting quick revisiting of folders.

Nautilus can display previews of files in their icons, be they text files, images, sound or video files via thumbnailers such as Totem. Audio files are previewed (played back over GStreamer) when the pointer is hovering over them.

In earlier versions, Nautilus included original vectorized icons designed by Susan Kare.[21]

File system abstraction

GNOME Files relies on the file system abstraction provided by GVfs to browse local and remote file systems, including but not limited to FTP sites, Windows SMB shares, OBEX protocol often implemented on cellphones, Files transferred over shell protocol, HTTP and WebDAV servers and SFTP servers.

Using the GIO library, Nautilus tracks modification of local files in real time, eliminating the need to refresh the display. GIO internally supports Gamin and FAM, Linux' inotify and Solaris' File Events Notification system.

File indexing and file search framework

GNOME Files relies on Tracker (formerly named "MetaTracker") to index file and is hence able to provide fast file search results.

Batch renaming

Batch renaming was introduced with GNOME Files version 3.22.[22]

Archive handling

GNOME Files version 3.22 adds native, integrated file compression and decompression. By default, handling of archive files (e.g. .tar.gz) was handed off to File Roller (or another tool). Users now benefit from a progress bar, undo support, and an archive creation wizard.

The new "extract on open" behavior, which automatically extracts an archive file by double clicking it, can be disabled in the preferences.[22]

MIME types

MIME types (also called "media type" or "content type") are standardized by the IANA, then the freedesktop.org project takes care that the implementation works across all free software desktops. shared-mime-info is the provided library.[23] At this time, at least GNOME, KDE, Xfce and ROX use this database.

See also

Forks of Nautilus

Caja 1.12.7

Other file managers

References

  1. Clasen, Matthias (21 September 2016). "GNOME 3.22". gnome-announce-list (Mailing list). Retrieved 21 September 2016.
  2. Clasen, Matthias (21 September 2016). "GNOME 3.22". gnome-announce-list (Mailing list). Retrieved 21 September 2016.
  3. "udisks2/what-is-shown.txt"..
  4. GNOME 1.4 Released: Desktop Environment Boasts Power, Stability, Polish and Integration (press release), GNOME Foundation, 2 April 2001, retrieved 13 September 2016
  5. Michael Hall (March 15, 2001). "Review: Nautilus 1.0: Has Eazel Earned Its Place in GNOME?". LinuxPlanet. Retrieved 2007-02-19.
  6. GNOME (April 2, 2001). "GNOME 1.4 Released – Desktop Environment Boasts Power, Stability, Polish and Integration". GNOME press release. Retrieved 2007-02-19.
  7. Murray Cumming; Colin Charles (March 31, 2004). "What's New In GNOME 2.6". GNOME. Retrieved 2006-12-24.
  8. Davyd Madeley (March 15, 2006). "GNOME 2.14 : What's New For Users". GNOME. Retrieved 2006-12-24.
  9. Alexander Larsson (December 7, 2005). "Seek and Ye Shall Find". Alexander Larsson's blog. Archived from the original on 2006-12-12. Retrieved 2006-12-24.
  10. GNOME 2.30 release notes
  11. GNOME 2.32 release notes
  12. GNOME 3.0 release notes
  13. GNOME 3.4 release notes
  14. GNOME 3.6 release notes
  15. Linux Mint team forks Nautilus
  16. Introducing Nemo
  17. Updates to GNOME Applications
  18. "GNOME 3.18 Will Let You Access Your Google Drive Files in Nautilus". 2015-09-30.
  19. "GNOME 3.18 lands with Google Drive". 2015-09-30.
  20. "GNOME wiki: GnomeOnlineAccounts".
  21. "Nautilus' contributors". GNOME. 2004. Retrieved 2007-10-31.
  22. 1 2 "Nautilus 3.22 Adds Batch File Renaming, Native Compression Features".
  23. "shared-mime-info on freedesktop.org".
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