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Nautilus File Manager Gets New Features in Upcoming GNOME 45 (9to5linux.com) 45

Posted by EditorDavid from the decorating-desktops dept.
The upcoming release of GNOME 45 — expected September 20th — will bring new features to the Nautilus file manager (now in public beta testing). An anonymous reader shared this report from 9to5Linux: Nautilus in GNOME 45 already received a search performance boost, support for dropping images directly from web pages, an improved Grid View that now indicates starred files too, the ability to display bytes size as a tooltip for folder properties, and a more adaptive design for the sidebar. It also got an improved file opening experience while sandboxed (think Flatpak, Snap, etc.), a more consistent date and time format, a more simplistic definition of the Keyboard Shortcuts window, the ability to refocus the search bar using the Ctrl+F keyboard shortcut, and a better archiving experience.

But there's room for more new features as Nautilus now received new "Search Everywhere" buttons to expand the search scope and a modern full-height sidebar layout, along with refined sidebar sizing and folding threshold. This is what Nautilus looks like in GNOME 45.
The article includes some screenshots, adding that Nautilus "also received some performance improvements to more quickly generate multiple thumbnails, provide users with flickerless transition into and from search, and avoid DBus-activating other apps when it starts."
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  • So it's catching up with KDE then? (Score:5, Informative)

    by drinkypoo ( 153816 ) <drink@hyperlogos.org> on Monday August 28, 2023 @06:59AM (#63802874) Homepage Journal

    KDE already has all that stuff, including dragging images from browsers to the file manager.

    Now if they just make it not completely suck maybe people will want to use GNOME again.

    Notably, bring back more options. Taking away configurability is exactly what drove me to KDE Plasma.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by mfearby ( 1653 )

      Taking away configurability (through the GNOME 3.0 release) is what drove me to KDE and then eventually to Mac when KDE 4.0 was a bit too half-baked for my liking. It's been so long now that the only Linux I use is in a docker container. Quite happy to keep it there and to keep macOS as my main desktop.

  • The efforts of the Gnome people to keep Linux in the desktop largely irrelevant are much appreciated: many of us can use Linux in the desktop to do everything that we want or need while safe in the knowledge that the bad guys will not devote much effort to try and attack our desktop environment. Keep it up!
  • don't need. don't want. not needed, not necessary, adds bloat, removes value.

    Probably looks like whatever they use in Windows, which is a confused mess of BS, last time was forced to use it.

    People you don't need flashing lights, transparency, "favourites", and other non-sense, to view lists of files.

    All that BS just creates a dependency in terms of what you learn, is what you like. Look at the people who use KDE or Gnome? Gnome in particular is complete garbage, doesn't add value, just makes you jump thru a

    • I use the shell every day, and I also run KDE.

      I don't need eye candy, I enjoy it.

      I taught a hairdresser to use DOS, but that doesn't mean I expect her to use windows from the command line.

      • Yeah, sure I came here to pick a fight... but you're right enough... We all use something to browse files, my own preferences run towards the minimal, or somewhere towards the unixy approach of small comprehensible tools ... and frankly I find K is ok-ish..compared to gnome and that cesspool of forcing you to do everything just slighly different that you are used to..... there's no accounting for taste as they say... but my main point is that software has become a trap. Creating dependence is the objective.
        • Xfce is just GNOME designed for lower end hardware.
          • You must live in a cave... and haven't seen Gnome for 10 years or so.... just do a default install of <pinches nose> Ubuntu and enjoy GNOME they way they serve it today.. I think the problem with Gnome is that they assume they know how you want to work... you must do it their way, "the right way"... fortunately, we still have choices around here (linux)...

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by RedK ( 112790 )

          > or somewhere towards the unixy approach of small comprehensible tools ...

          This is a troll right ?

          There's nothing incomprehensible about graphical file managers. Grand mothers with no clue use Windows File Explorer. Nautilus works about the same way. It's not rocket science to click little folders and files and drag them around.

          • Not a troll. Microsoft way of displaying files is bullshit with scum on top. a few flies buzzing too... You don't like unixy? Go jump in a lake... that's old man for: fuck off. Grandmothers are still confused. Enjoy being Microsoft's bitch.

  • BREAKING NEWS: File manager in one of the many Linux desktops gets some minor feature updates.

  • Finally supporting an ISO 8601 date format after 10 years of requests?

  • That reminds me of an episode of M*A*S*H where a Korean sculptor was hawking his skills Col. Potter.

    The Korean held up a 2x4 board and said, "Used to be round."

    This GNOME improvement in Nautilus is not until that 2x4 board that used to be round.

  • All UI file managers should be dual-pane (Score:4, Insightful)

    by BrendaEM ( 871664 ) on Monday August 28, 2023 @09:36AM (#63803104) Homepage
    Many UI file management operations involve comparing files, copying files, or moving files from one place to another, but the powers that be stopped making dual-pane file managers, so we as users are sentenced to opening two instances to get work done.

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by hogleg ( 1147911 )
      We had dual-pane file managers back in the days of Xtree Gold. Dang it. And it worked great. Why can't he have that now? Just why?

    • As an avid user of orthodox dual-pane file managers (far2l, Midnight Commander, Double Commander, and Krusader when using KDE), I am not sure of it. Allow us to have file managers that are best suited for the task at hand and best fulfilling the preferences and needs of the user.

      Some tasks --- editing files, watching video files, managing files on a phone screen, rarely even some file organisation within subdirectories --- are best accomplished with a single directory view, without a second pane taking up y

      • I did mention phones, because Nautilus is usable devices like tablets as it has touch-friendly navigation, with an adaptive interface that hides the sidebar on small screens like a phone. They've recently almost fixed the constant issue where the window would become too big to fit on a screen by adding a lot of ellipses, though some other parts of GNOME (the file picker, for example), would become too wide to fit any screen by simply navigating into a directory whose name is too long.

  • New security issues (Score:3)

    by Ungrounded Lightning ( 62228 ) on Monday August 28, 2023 @09:37AM (#63803108) Journal

    support for dropping images directly from web pages,

    Sounds like rendering thumbnails from the web pages - opening it to no-click crafted-image exploits of image-format rendering engine bugs.

  • IMO, Cinnamon became a much better desktop UI than what I saw of Gnome.

  • Sounds like ever more "features" that I would need to turn off to use what should be a very simple app. Hopefully, it is actually possible to turn them off.

  • The $12 million file manager which took 75 people to code. RIP Eazel.

  • I've used xfce for well over a decade and finally moving to a > 1080p single monitor setup with modern features had me looking for modern options. xfce, even with the appropriate xorg config was not enabling freesync (i have a vr headset, so not sure if the xorg 1 display only rule was at play). i then tried the wayland options. i tried gnome but it doesn't support freesync. so now I'm using KDE, which seems to be the only current Linux display system that properly uses freesync and handles multi-

  • On the first go I was reading the headline as "Nautilus file manager gets fewer features in upcoming Gnome 45" and it didn't sound that weird, was just lucky I read it again.

  • If Nautilus can drag and drop images or files from web pages, does it bring along the Las Modified date from the web site server?

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