Nautilus

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Nautilus
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Version: 3.28.1 / 3.30.0 Beta updated
Upload Date: 16 Aug 18
Developer: The Gnome Project
Distribution Type: Freeware
Downloads: 262

Rating: 2.0/5 (Total Votes: 1)

Nautilus is an open source file manager application that allows users to access their file system under any Linux-based operating system. It is mostly used on the GNOME desktop environment and lets you to do basic file operations (copy, paste, remove, rename or move).

Easy to use and familiar user interface

The user interface of Files is very familiar to Ubuntu users, most probably because Canonical still uses Nautilus (an old version of it) as the default file manager for its world’s most popular free operating system, Ubuntu Linux.

It split into two parts, a sidebar and the main file viewer. While you already know what the latter can do for you, the sidebar offers quick access to Places, Devices and Network locations, as well as any other bookmarks that you can add whenever you want.

Allows you to access remote or local locations

On recent versions of GNOME, you can click the Files entry in the panel to access the a specific location (remote or local), connect to a certain server (FTP, SFTP, SAMBA, etc.), access your bookmarks, open a new window, as well as to change its default functionality.

From the main window of the application you can search for files and folders, change view options (list or thumbs), sort files by name, size, type, modification/access date, zoom in or out, reverse the display order, and view hidden files.

The Preferences dialog will allow you to change the application’s default functionality, such as to view certain information beneath icon names, such as file size for files and number of items for folders. In addition, you can add or remove columns for the list view, modify file preview settings, and more.

Availability and supported Linux distributions/desktop environments

The program is distributed as a single source archive, which can be configure, compiled and installed on almost any Linux flavor. There are no binary files for a specific Linux distribution, but you can install it directly from the default software channels of your operating system.

If you install and use GNOME as your main desktop environment, you’ve most certainly noticed that it it includes a launcher on the dock called Files. Clicking this shortcut will open a familiar window that displays the files and folders stored on your Home folders, and allows you to access certain locations on your file system.

What is new in this release:

  • Flatpak improvements. Improved user facing experience and developer experience (Ernestas Kulik, Carlos Soriano)
  • * CI & CD set up. Increases stability, buildability and feedback cycle (Jordan Petridis, Ernestas Kulik, Carlos Soriano)
  • * Distribute icons horizontally in the icon view (Nikita Churaev)
  • Implement new pathbar/search design (Allan Day, Antonio Ferndandes, Piotr Drag, Carlos Soriano)
  • Implement new toolbar menus design (Carlos Soriano)
  • Add background actions to the path bar (Carlos Soriano)
  • Get background work ready for gtk4 port (Ernestas Kulik)
  • Add recent search engine (Marco Trevisan)
  • Implement tests for Nautilus most critical operations (Alexandru Fazakas)
  • Show Recency column in recent view (Rahul Verma)
  • Avoid recursivity in symbolic links (Ernestas Kulik)
  • Add a button in properties dialog to open GNOME Disks (Rahul Verma)
  • Add touch support for menus in views (Jan-Michael Brummer)
  • Fix error when accesing a file with x-nautilus-search (Rahul Verma)
  • Allow right clickin expanders (Alexandru Fazakas)
  • Allow trashing/deleting Desktop dir (Antonion Fernandes)
  • Improve about dialog visuals (Juraj Fiala)
  • Fix path bar changing size when navigating (Nikita Churaev)
  • Fix MB/MiB confusion in preferences dialog (Christophe Fergeau)
  • Fix openning files failing from other applications in some cases due to DBus race (Ernestas Kulik)
  • Implement devel style to differentiate development builds (Carlos Soriano)
  • Improve handling for impaired (Joanmarie Diggs, Peter Vagner)
  • Fix wrong labels and file count in operations progress (Antonio Fernandes)
  • Remove special treatment for desktop files (Carlos Soriano)
  • Remove special treatment for computer:/// (Carlos Soriano)
  • Fix triggering maximum file name when renaming (Ernestas Kulik)
  • Open search filters with popover open when using f (Stratila Andrei)
  • Expose active windows for Ubuntu dash support (Philip Langdale)
  • Show "Open With" for files in trash (George Mocanu)
  • Provide more information in prperties dialog for files in trash (George Mocanu)
  • Implement showing properties of current view from path bar (Wong Heung Sang)
  • Avoid fuzzy icons in small sizes (Sam Hewitt)
  • Warn if the renamed file will be hidden once renamed (Yash Jain)
  • Improve and fix visuals in the new views (Carlos Soriano)
  • Add show sidebar setting to the preferences dialog (Carlos Soriano)
  • Remove experimental views UI setting in preferences dialog (Carlos Soriano)

What is new in version 3.28.1:

  • Fix rename popover animation (Ernestas Kulik)
  • Allow deleting the desktop folder (Antonio Fernandes)
  • Fix gsettings in Flatpak instal (Carlos Soriano)

What is new in version :

  • Fix crash in list view when expanding folders (Antonio Fernandes)

What is new in version 3.26.0:

  • Translations.

What is new in version 3.25.1:

  • Ported to Meson build system (Ernestas Kulik)
  • Fix replacing directory with symlink (echo-devim)

What is new in version 3.24.0:

  • Translations

What is new in version 3.22.2 / 3.24.0 Beta:

  • Add < ctrl > Return as shortcut to open selected folder in new window (Felipe Borges)
  • < ctrl > N now opens the window in the same location as the current view (Felibe Borges)
  • Fixes on managing menus with keyboard (djb)
  • Remove unused < ctrl > B shortcut (Jeremy Bicha)
  • Use a better empty state for trash (Mohammed Sadiq)
  • Fix floating bar hide on hover when using tabs (Ernestas Kulik)
  • Syncronize gtk+ and Nautilus setting for sorting the folder first (Felipe Borges)
  • Select entire names for folder when renaming (Razvan Chitu)
  • Support to open folders withouth permission using polkit and the admin backend (Carlos Soriano)
  • Fix trash operations progress report (Carlos Soriano)
  • Improve performance setting metadata only when necesary (Carlos Soriano)
  • Fix progress reporting when copying (rpm-build)
  • Prevent toolbar menu dissapearing when "Hidden files" menu item is toggled (Neil Herald)
  • Update app icon (Jakub Steiner, Lapo Calamandrei)
  • Fix icon scale computation when changing DPI (Lionel Landwerlin)
  • Add < ctrl > M as alternate shortcut for renaming for those laptops withouth "f" keys (Cristian Nancu)
  • Fix crash when pressing enter on search (Alexandru Pandelea)
  • Fix failed build with tracker disabled (Ernestas Kulik)
  • Ask the user for using desktop files from unknown sources (Carlos Soriano)
  • Improve the operations button animation in order to not need to show the operations popover (Carlos Soriano)
  • Add an experimental icon view based on flow box with extra niceties under a gsetting preference (Carlos Soriano)

What is new in version 3.22.2:

  • Fix opening menus with keyboard (djb)
  • Fix batch rename failing to rename in some cases (Alex Pandelea)
  • Remove Bookmarks manager shortcut from the shortcut window (Jeremy Bicha)
  • Reverse view icon logic to match design expectations (Carlos Soriano)
  • Make icons on desktop work on Wayland sessions (Florian Mullner)
  • Fix popover animations (Alex Pandelea)
  • Use the same setting for "directories first" both for file chooser and Nautilus (Felipe Borges)
  • Select entire names when renaming a folder (Razvan Chitu)
  • Fix wrong progress information in operations due to races (Carlos Soriano)
  • Fix wrong progress information in operations in non local files (Christophe Fergeau)
  • Fix regresion on speed when copying or moving files (Carlos Soriano)

What is new in version 3.22.1:

  • Multiple batch renaming fixes (Alex Pandelea, Carlos Soriano)
  • Multiple compression integration fixes (Razvan Chitu, Carlos Soriano)
  • Fix not showing "eject" and other options for devices in the context menu in the desktop (victoryang)
  • Rework clipboard handling, fixing desktopNautilus interaction (Carlos Soriano)
  • Fix overlaping icons on desktop in some cases, noticeabily in Ubuntu (Ian Lane)
  • Fix wrong progress information in operations when skipping files (Razvan Chitu)
  • Fix gnome-shell search only searching for whole words (Jiri Cerny)
  • Show location as default for list view on Recent (Carlos Soriano)
  • Fix context menu position in Wayland or other non-global coordinates systems (Carlos Soriano)
  • Update man page of nautilus (Ernestas Kulik)
  • Add revealer for warnings in batch rename dialog (Lavinia Stefania)
  • Add tooltips to batch rename dialog file names (Alex Pandelea)
  • Port nautilus classes to G_DECLARE (Lavinia Stefania)
  • Extend Nautilus File API for regular files (Neha Yadav)
  • Don't crash for simple leaks on the views (Carlos Soriano)

What is new in version 3.22.0:

  • Increase gtk+ depencency version (Michael Biebl)

What is new in version 3.20.3 / 3.22.0 Beta 2:

  • Implement batch renaming tool (Alex Pandelea)
  • Implement compressed files support (Razvan Chitu)
  • Rework the view menus (Neil Herald)
  • Separate desktop handling from Nautilus (Carlos Soriano)
  • Add missing cut shortcut (Pedro Beja)
  • Add < ctrl >= as "zoom in" shortcut (Ernestas Kulik)

What is new in version 3.20.2:

  • Fix white desktop background after changing themes (Sebastien Keller)
  • Improve double click detection (Johannes Oertel)
  • Fix path bar menu on wayland appearing on random places (Olivier Fourdan)
  • Only save zoom level if the level has changed (Mike Gorse)
  • Fix date difference calculation for attributes like Modified Date (Ernestas Kulik)
  • Hide floating bar on hover (Carlos Soriano)
  • Fix detection of remote systems for not thumbnailing (Ernestas Kulik)
  • Fix sorting on Japanese locale (Ernestas Kulik)
  • Fix gnome shell search provider not being recursive (Carlos Soriano)
  • Fix copy operation lags (Razvan Chitu)
  • Avoid unresponsiveness when file chooser is opened (Ernestas Kulik)
  • Fix renaming duplicated logic on search and recent (Ernestas Kulik)
  • Fix trash handling to delete files if disk is full (Mario Sanchez Prada)

What is new in version 3.20.1:

New in Nautilus 3.20.0 (March 23rd, 2016)

What is new in version 3.20.0:

  • Improve path bar sliders sizing, making them less prominent (Carlos Soriano, Lapo Calamandrei)

What is new in version 3.18.5 / 3.20 Beta 2:

  • Use GTask instead of the old gioscheduler (Razvan Chitu)
  • Improve wording of the conflict dialog (Rishabh Makhija)
  • Make dialogs transients and modals for parent windows (Michael Cantazaro)
  • Reveal folder on creation (Carlos Soriano)
  • Fix dark theme background (Alezxandru Pandelea)
  • Hide hidden files when renamed from normal files (Carlos Soriano)
  • Select first file while searching even if search didn't finished (Carlos Soriano)
  • Multiple localization fixes (Carlos Soriano)
  • Fix the shell search provider (Carlos Soriano)
  • Style fixes with latest gtk+ (Carlos Soriano)
  • Hide undo delete notification if the user undo (Razvan Chitu)
  • Don't show thumbnails for small zoom level (Alexandru Pandelea)
  • Fix the info bar when navigating a DVD or a loopback mounted device (Carlos Soriano)
  • Allow copying from the trash (Andrej Holy)
  • Remove notifications when the application closes, fixing the "notifications appear after reboot" (Razvan Chitu)
  • Add Open With Other Application for all items, allowing i.e. desktop files to be opened with a text editor (aki)
  • Add + shortcut for properties, matching other GNOME applications (Joseph-Eugene Winzer)
  • Remove the "Untitled" when creating templates (Ricard Gascons)

What is new in version 3.18.5 / 3.20 Beta 1:

  • Reorganize shortcuts (Felipe Borges)
  • Remove bookmark manager (Carlos Soriano)
  • More robust search (Carlos Soriano)
  • Add preference for menu item "Delete Permanently" (Razvan Chitu)
  • Add preference for menu item "Create Link" (Razvan Chitu)
  • Fix jp2 images crashing nautilus (Carlos Soriano)
  • Change icon of operations cancelation when operation is finished (Paolo Borelli)
  • Allow Nautilus windows to be styled differently than other applications (Horst3180)
  • Add new search popover and search filtering (Georges Basile Stavracas Neto)
  • Allow different search preferences for remote and local separately (Carlos Soriano)
  • Remove sorting preference, since the view menu is the preference itself (Carlos Soriano)
  • Allow different view type setting for search and normal (Carlos Soriano)
  • Rework preferences window (Carlos Soriano)
  • Add another zoom level and improve icons padding (Cosimo Cecchi, Carlos Soriano)
  • Allow to open the "Other Locations" in new tabs or windows (Carlos Soriano)
  • Make operations popover keyboard navigable (Carlos Soriano)
  • Limit search to maximum 5 years (Alexandru Pandelea)

What is new in version 3.18.2:

  • Show SD cards and external hard drives in the sidebar, not in the Other Places view (Carlos Soriano)
  • Fix nautilus not opening a new window when used from command line (Carlos Soriano)
  • Fix crash using samba (Iain Lane)
  • Allow 3rd party themes to tweak operations button color (Elias Aebi)
  • Fix recurrent crash when closing Nautilus (Debarshi Ray)
  • Avoid empty operations popover (Carlos Soriano)
  • Fix nautilus opening locations in a different window than the one the user is using (Carlos Soriano)
  • Fix Other Places lock ups (Benjamin Otte & Emmanuelle Bassi)
  • Adapt rename entry to the width of the file and increase the minimum (Carlos Soriano)
  • Increase max width of operations popover to fix ellipsize translations (Carlos Soriano)
  • Fix recurrent crashers (Carlos Soriano)

What is new in version 3.18.0:

  • Fixed various sidebar crashes (Carlos Soriano)
  • Use a correct file number for copy/move operations (Carlos Soriano)
  • Fix various operations crashes (Carlos Soriano)
  • Google Drive support (Debarshi Ray)
  • Fix desktop icons not appearing for the first time (Carlos Soriano)
  • Fix searching on recursive mode but not working properly (Carlos Soriano)
  • Fix remote warning label not showing sometimes (Carlos Soriano)
  • Use better file renaming positioning when using keyboard shortcut (Andreas Reis)
  • Fix a crash on Other Locations (Mathias Clasen)

What is new in version 3.17.2:

  • Fix window focus issues when starting nautilus (Carlos Soriano)
  • Fix handling of command line options in diferent cases (Carlos Soriano)
  • Decrease the padding on list view (Carlos Soriano)
  • Use a dialog for creating folders (Georges Basile Stavracas Neto)
  • Use a dialog for renaming files (Carlos Soriano)
  • Allow F5 and ctrl+r as shortcuts for refresh the view (Carlos Soriano)
  • Make the zoom slider the preference itself (Carlos Soriano)
  • Allow opening with a different app than default for multiple files (Carlos Soriano)
  • Fix view scrolling when selecting with ctrl + mouse (Georges Basile Stavracas Neto)
  • Don't always make the sidebar visible on start (Antonio Fernandes)
  • Allow opening folders with another app (Carlos Soriano)
  • Show Delete Permanently on systems that does not support Trash (Carlos Soriano)
  • Add Alt shorcut for opening
  • Fix some icons sizes inconsistency (Cosimo Cechi)
  • Add public API documentation for Nautilus extensions (Cosimo Cechi)
  • Add a gsetting to toggle recursive search (Felipe Borges)

What is new in version 3.16.0:

  • Support multiple desktop names in XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP (Dmitry Shachnev)
  • Workaround distcheck (Carlos Soriano)

What is new in version 3.15.4:

  • Port to GAction
  • Rework menus and zoom levels
  • Use monospace font for permissions column (Matthias Clasen)
  • Port to GNotification (Florian MA¼llner)
  • Stop loading custom accel maps file
  • Use inline toolbar for column chooser dialog (Robert Roth)

What is new in version 3.14.2:

  • Fix new window activation with desktop icons enabled
  • Translation updates

What is new in version 3.14.1:

  • Fix regression with --new-window option (Lubomir Rintel)
  • Use mount name if available for file operations progress report
  • Set max-width for value labels in properties (Lars Uebernickel)
  • Increase default window width (Michael Catanzaro)

What is new in version 3.14.0:

  • Translation updates

What is new in version 3.14 RC:

  • Improve toolbar and pathbar styling with GTK 3.14
  • Expand properties dialog notebook in its parent container
  • Fix crash when using the rename field context menu in list view
  • Fix crash when using a screen reader in canvas view
  • Fix crash when changing icon captions setting (Volker Sobek)

What is new in version 3.14 Beta 2:

  • Performance improvements for canvas and list views
  • Remove duplicate actions in gear menu when app menu is not in use
  • Fix CSS style for new GTK (Lapo Calamandrei, Alex Diavatis, AntA³nio Fernandes)
  • Fix handling of sort-directories-first setting (Matthias Clasen)

What is new in version 3.14 Beta 1:

  • Fix problems with fast group/owner changes
  • Fix user list for owner changes
  • Use margin-start/end instead of deprecated margin-left/right
  • Fix floating bar CSS style after Adwaita GTK move
  • Fix build glitch with enums file (Volker Sobek)
  • Translation updates

What is new in version 3.13.2:

  • Fix a missing unref (Robert Ancell)
  • Fix a crash in selection handling (Iain Lane)
  • Use header bar for properties dialog (Matthias Clasen)
  • Use new gear menu icon (Matthias)
  • Include application-specific theming for Adwaita (Matthias)
  • Share pathbar styling with GTK+ (Matthias)
  • Translation updates

What is new in version 3.12.2:

  • Don't resolve symlinks before launching an application
  • Fix a crasher when switching location out of trash
  • Fix a crasher when enumerating windows (Robert Ancell)
  • Fix a crasher when listing bookmarks (Robert Ancell)
  • Use headerbar in bookmarks dialog (Yosef Or Boczko)
  • Fix arrow direction in connect server dialog for RTL (Yosef Or Boczko)
  • Use spaces between em dashes in file operations (Ross Lagerwall)
  • Do not use legacy emblem names (David King)
  • Sync the GTK+ setting for 'sort-directories-first' (Matthias Clasen)

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