Nautilus file manager

Nautilus is the official file manager for the GNOME desktop. It is designed to be primarily a file manager, but it also includes support for World Wide Web and file viewing. The name is a pun on the operating system 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.

=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 directory folder) to be compliant with freedesktop.org standards.

In the version included with GNOME 2.6, Nautilus switched to a spatial file manager. The classic interface is still available by a filing cabinet shaped icon, by an option in the Edit -> Preferences -> Behavior menu in Nautilus, or by using Gconf-editor to set the following key to true :

:/apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_browser

=See also=

*List of file managers *Comparison of file managers

=External links=

*[http://www.gnome.org/projects/nautilus/ Official web page] *[http://www.bytebot.net/geekdocs/spatial-nautilus.html Introduction to spatial Nautilus] *[http://wikibooks.org/wiki/Using_GNOME_:_File_manager Guide to Nautilus on Wikibooks] *[http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgiNautilus Gnome for Debian Nautilus]