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Nine things you should know about Nautilus

Submitted by stro on Wed, 2006-05-10 11:28. Nautilus
Nautilus

The Nautilus program in GNOME is not only the default file manager, it creates and manages the desktop. While it looks simple on the surface, there is a lot of hidden power under the shell. The latest version of Nautilus is 2.14.0, which is included in Fedora Core 5. That's the one I poked with a stick.

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Submitted by Anonymous George (not verified) on Thu, 2006-05-11 21:32.

Having notes on files and folders is a really cool feature. My college , mac os x user, said he wished he could put stickies (electronic version of post-its) in folders besides on his desktop. Really notes are like that. However, nautilus could just be a bit more friendly in using them. The sidebar can show besides history, tree etc notes. However, you can only add notes and view notes for the folder you are. For files you have to go through the properties box to view or edit the note.

Why not:
1) have the note show on mouse over or click on the note emblem
2) show notes in the notes sidebar when file/folder is selected or dragged to side bar. Preferably, the notes sidebar divided into 'folder note' and 'selected item note'.
3) allow formatting of notes with colour, big !! and smilies

Anyway, I find nautilus way!!!!!!!!!!! more friendly to use than either MS's explorer or mac os x finder.

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Nautilus deserves as much optimiziation as Gedit and the teminal

Submitted by BrendaEM on Thu, 2006-05-11 11:15.

Why not make the focus of the next Gnome release on making a better and faster Nautilus?

Gnome was release with a focus on booting and terminal speed, so why not a release centering on Natilus improvments?

I do not understand how focusing on the terminal shows a commitment to making a faster, more user friendly desktop, but I am sure that someone will explain it to me claiming that Nautilus is just an accessory, and the real file maintainace chores should be done in the command line.

To make a better, more consistant desktop, my dare continues: Use no command line for one month.

Where have you been the last

Submitted by Daniel Borgmann on Thu, 2006-05-11 21:17.

Where have you been the last five years, ever since Eazel went down the focus of the Nautilus developers has been on performance (and it shows, since Nautilus 1.0 was ridiculously slow compared to what we have today). Now that all the low hanging fruit probably has been taken care of, it is just harder to find more noticable performance improvements.

The reason the Terminal got so much fuss is because it's the major application that benefits from Pango performance improvements (since it's all about text output). But it also helps with the rest of the desktop.

Where have you been the last

Submitted by murraycu on Fri, 2006-05-12 01:40.

The Terminal got so much attention in the release notes because it's been getting so much attention in forum comments. Which shows you the odd priorities of people who comment in forums.

Odd, maybe but also interested

Submitted by claus on Sat, 2006-05-13 06:43.

People who comment in forums (and on mailing lists and in bugzilla, btw) maybe have "odd" priorities but they are the people reading the release notes!

They are talking to their friends about our releases. They convince their friends to test or use Linux and GNOME. They are the ones who spread the word about GNOME, who train other people using it, and who inspire others to like it.

We should listen to them. The clueless user "in a cubicle in some office in an office park" won't help us grow.

Btw, the terminal is not an "odd" priority -- often, it's the only tool to rely on when explaining something because the other guy may be using KDE or something else.

Done

Submitted by murraycu on Sat, 2006-05-13 11:43.

Yes, hence why we did that.

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