There may well be some of you out there who are currently thinking, “It’s not that bad…” to which my response is: in terms of user interface, there are much better file managers available for GNOME than GNOME’s default file manager (two, off the top of my head: Thunar, default for the Xfce Desktop Environment and PCMan File Manager, or PCManFM).
Read more »Deconstructing Nautilus and rebuilding it better
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Expand The GNOME File Manager With Nautilus Actions
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The default file manager in the GNOME desktop environment is Nautilus. If you've been using GNOME for a while, then you're probably familiar with Nautilus' built in Nautilus Scripts function. The Scripts function is great, but there's an even better way to add functions to Nautilus; with Nautilus Actions.
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Deconstructing Nautilus and rebuilding it better (Nautilus + Zeitgeist)
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If you’re an avid user of the GNOME Desktop Environment and follow the development of it, you may well be aware of one of the hot topics currently doing the rounds on the internet, and that is: The User Interface Of The Nautilus File Manager And Why Is It So Awful?
Read more »Nautilus Elementary: A Simplified Nautilus For Ubuntu
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The simplified / elementary Nautilus idea firstly begun with the 100 paper cuts for Ubuntu Karmic and it stated that the menu and columns are too big and take away space for the really important stuff. Unfortunately, a fix was never released. Here is where Nautilus Elementary comes in: a Nautilus patched for simplicity.
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How to Upload Images to Imgur Straight from Nautilus
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What the hell is imgur? Imgur, my friend, is the best image host in all the interwebz. It's my current image host of choice because of its simple design, fast speed, and overall awesomeness.
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Add actions to extend Nautilus functionality
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GNOME's file manager, Nautilus, (as you would expect) is much more than just a plain file manager. There are so many configuration options and ways to extend the default GNOME file manager.
Read more »How to get popup window before empty gnome trash in Ubuntu
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We have already discussed how to empty gnome trash from command line this will delete all the contents without prompt any warning this tutorial will explain how to get popup window before empty gnome trash.
Read more »Music Album Covers And Picture Previews As Folder Thumbnails In Nautilus
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Cover thumbnailer is a small Python script which displays music album covers in nautilus, preview of pictures which are in a folder and more. The script fits in nautilus like any other thumbnailer of the GNOME thumbnail factory; so you don't have to run it manually to generate thumbnails.
Read more »10 secrets of Nautilus (file manager)
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There are many secrets about Nautilus normal users might not familiar with them; therefore, in this article, I will try to shed light on some of them.
Read more »Howto: OpenOffice Thumbnails in Nautilus
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Nautilus (the GNOME file manager) is able to display thumbnails for several file types: images, video, audio (holding you mouse over a sound file for a few second), text, pdf, etc.
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Adding Document templates to Nautilus right click menu
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Ubuntu distribution uses nautilus as the default file manager. You can tweak nautilus to increase your productivity. Here is one hack which I discovered recently. When you right click on the desktop or inside your file manager you get a menu as shown in the screen shot below.
Read more »Install a Simplified Nautilus for Ubuntu [100 Paper Cuts]
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One Hundred Paper Cuts is a project which attempts to fix 100 usability errors reported by the users for the new Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala.
One of the most popular "paper cuts" concerns Nautilus, the default file browser in GNOME. Its graphical interface could be improved a lot: the space currently devoted to the menu / columns is too big and takes away space for the really important stuff.
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Nautilus vs. Dolphin vs. Konqueror
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when the KDE team decided to replace Konqueror with Dolphin everything changed. Because, at least for now, Dolphin is a lot like Nautilus and has little to do with what KDE users were accustomed to.
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Extending Nautilus: rotating JPG images
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I recently went looking for a way to rotate JPG images from within Nautilus, and found a nice way to do this and more. It’s not difficult to customize the right-click popup menu in Nautilus to perform custom actions on files. Here are some instructions and scripts to get you started.
Read more »Expert tricks for Nautilus
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Nautilus, the official file manager for the GNOME desktop, can help you perform tasks from browsing the filesystem to accessing Samba shares on your local network or FTP sites on the Internet -- and more. Here are a couple of tips and tools that will allow you to open a terminal window from Nautilus and resize and rotate images without opening any other program.
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