GNOME Files
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Screenshot of GNOME Files 3.14
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| Developer(s) | GNOME |
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| Initial release | March 13, 2001 |
| Stable release | 3.24.1 (12 April 2017) |
| Preview release | 3.24.0 (21 March 2017) |
| Repository | git |
| Written in | C (GTK+) |
| Operating system | Unix-like |
| Platform | GNOME |
| Available in | Multilingual |
| Type | File manager |
| License | GNU Lesser General Public License |
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GNOME Files, formerly and internally Nautilus, is the official file manager for the GNOME desktop. The nautilus name was a play on words, evoking the shell of a nautilus to represent an operating system shell. Nautilus replaced Midnight Commander in GNOME 1.4 (2001) and has been the default from version 2.0 onwards.
Nautilus was the flagship product of the now-defunct Eazel Inc. Released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, Nautilus is free software.
Nautilus was first released in 2001 and development has continued ever since. The following is a brief timeline of its development history:
Bookmarks, window backgrounds, notes, and add-on scripts are all implemented, and the user has the choice between icon, list, or compact list views. In browser mode, Nautilus keeps a history of visited folders, similar to web browsers, permitting quick revisiting of folders.
Nautilus can display previews of files in their icons, be they text files, images, sound or video files via thumbnailers such as Totem. Audio files are previewed (played back over GStreamer) when the pointer is hovering over them.
In earlier versions, Nautilus included original vectorized icons designed by Susan Kare.
GNOME Files relies on the file system abstraction provided by GVfs to browse local and remote file systems, including but not limited to sites, Windows SMB shares, OBEX protocol often implemented on cellphones, , HTTP and WebDAV servers and servers.
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