GNOME Files

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GNOME Files
Original author(s)Eazel
Developer(s)GNOME
Initial releaseMarch 13, 2001; 23 years ago (2001-03-13)
Stable release
46.0[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 18 March 2024; 5 days ago (18 March 2024)
Repository
Written inC (GTK)
Operating systemUnix-like
PlatformGNOME
TypeFile manager
LicenseGPL-3.0-or-later[2]
Websiteapps.gnome.org/fr/Nautilus/ Edit this on Wikidata

GNOME Files, formerly and internally known as Nautilus, is the official file manager for the GNOME desktop. Nautilus was originally developed by Eazel with many luminaries from the tech world including Andy Hertzfeld (Apple), chief architect for Nautilus. 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)[3] and has been the default file manager from version 2.0 onwards.

Nautilus was the

free and open-source
software.

History

GNOME Files was originally developed by Eazel and Andy Hertzfeld (founder of Eazel and a former Apple engineer) in 1999.

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

Features

Whether GNOME Files shows a mount or not is determined by the option x-gvfs-show for the gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor process.[20] Screenshot of GNOME Disks.

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

pointer
is hovering over them.

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

File system abstraction

GNOME Files provides a special page for managing storage devices.

GNOME Files relies on a file system

SFTP
servers.

Using the

Solaris
' File Events Notification system.

File indexing and file search framework

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

Batch renaming

Batch renaming was introduced with GNOME Files version 3.22 (2016).[22]

Archive handling

GNOME Files version 3.22 adds native, integrated file compression and decompression. By default, handling of archive files (e.g.

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.[citation needed
]

See also

References

  1. ^ Ondřej Holý (18 March 2024). "46.0". Retrieved 19 March 2024.
  2. ^ "LICENSE". GNOME Gitlab. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
  3. ^ GNOME 1.4 Released: Desktop Environment Boasts Power, Stability, Polish and Integration (press release), GNOME Foundation, 2 April 2001, retrieved 13 September 2016
  4. ^ Michael Hall (March 15, 2001). "Review: Nautilus 1.0: Has Eazel Earned Its Place in GNOME?". LinuxPlanet. Archived from the original on 2012-02-05. Retrieved 2007-02-19.
  5. ^ GNOME (April 2, 2001). "GNOME 1.4 Released – Desktop Environment Boasts Power, Stability, Polish and Integration". GNOME press release. Archived from the original on 2007-03-03. Retrieved 2007-02-19.
  6. ^ Murray Cumming; Colin Charles (March 31, 2004). "What's New In GNOME 2.6". GNOME. Retrieved 2006-12-24.
  7. ^ Davyd Madeley (March 15, 2006). "GNOME 2.14 : What's New For Users". GNOME. Retrieved 2006-12-24.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ "GNOME 2.30 Release Notes". library.gnome.org.
  10. ^ "GNOME 2.32 Release Notes". library.gnome.org.
  11. ^ "GNOME 3.0 Release Notes". library.gnome.org.
  12. ^ "GNOME 3.4 Release Notes". library.gnome.org.
  13. ^ "GNOME 3.6 Release Notes". library.gnome.org.
  14. ^ "Linux Mint team forks Nautilus - The H Open: News and Features". h-online.com. 6 August 2012.
  15. ^ "Introducing Nemo".
  16. ^ "Updates to GNOME Applications". help.gnome.org.
  17. ^ "GNOME 3.18 Will Let You Access Your Google Drive Files in Nautilus". 2015-09-30.
  18. ^ "GNOME 3.18 lands with Google Drive". 2015-09-30.
  19. ^ "Projects/GnomeOnlineAccounts - GNOME Wiki!". wiki.gnome.org.
  20. ^ "udisks2/what-is-shown.txt"..
  21. ^ "Nautilus' contributors". GNOME. 2004. Retrieved 2007-10-31.
  22. ^ a b "Nautilus 3.22 Adds Batch File Renaming, Native Compression Features". OMG! Ubuntu!. August 31, 2016.
  23. ^ "shared-mime-info". freedesktop.org.

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