Nautilus
Nautilus is an
open-source file manager and graphical shell for the GNOME
desktop environment that makes it easy to manage your files and the
rest of your system.
It allows you to configure your desktop, configure your
system, browse your photo collection, access your network resources,
and more all from one integrated interface. In essence, Nautilus
becomes a shell for your entire desktop experience.
Features include:
- 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
previously visited folders
- Supports previews of files in their icons, be they text
files, images, sound or video files via thumbnailers such as Totem
- Supports browsing local filesystems as well as FTP sites,
Windows SMB shares, Files transferred over shell protocol, WebDAV
servers and SFTP servers via GNOME VFS
- Integrated optional Beagle support
- Ability to save searches as virtual folders
- With the use of the Gamin library, Nautilus tracks
modification of local files in real time, eliminating the need to
refresh the display manually
- File compression
- ACL (access control list)
- Includes original vectorized icons
- Undo
- Symbolic sidebar icon
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Nautilius also features in our 'Linux
Equivalents to Windows Software' section. The category
chooser below allows you to focus on different types of software
included in that section.
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