Nautilus file manager

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Nautilus is the official file manager for the GNOME desktop. The name is a pun on the shell of the nautilus. It replaced Midnight Commander in GNOME 1.4 and was default from 2.0 onwards.

It was the flagship product of the now defunct Eazel Inc.

1 History
2 Features
3 See also
4 External links

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History

Version 1.0 was the version in Gnome 1.4. It had performance problems.
Version 2.0 was basically a port to GTK+ 2.0.
Version 2.2 saw a lot of changes to make it more compliant with User Interface Guidelines.
Version 2.4 switched the desktop folder to ~/Desktop (the ~ represents the user's "Home" folder) to be compliant with freedesktop.org standards.

In the version included with GNOME 2.6, Nautilus switched to a spatial interface. The "classic" interface is still available by a filing cabinet shaped icon, by an option in the "Edit -> Preferences -> Behavior" menu in Nautilus, or in a folder's context menu.

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Features

Nautilus not only supports browsing local filesystems, it also provides access to FTP sites, Windows SMB shares, WebDAV servers and SFTP servers via GNOME VFS.

Nautilus supports previews of files in their icons, be they text files, images, sound or video files via thumbnailers such as Totem.

Nautilus implements bookmarks, window backgrounds, emblems, notes, addon scripts and has the choice between an icon or list view. It keeps a history of visited folders, similar to many web browsers, permitting easy access to previouly visited folders.

With the use of the Gamin library, nautilus tracks modification of local files in real time, eliminating the need to ever manually refresh the display. Template:Wikibooks

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