Nine Things You Should Know About Nautilus

lessthan0 writes "The Nautilus program in GNOME is not only the default file manager, it creates and manages the desktop. While it looks simple on the surface, there is a lot of hidden power under the shell. The latest version of Nautilus is 2.14.0, which is included in Fedora Core 5. article covers a few non-obvious things about how Nautilus works."

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[minus_273]

It was made by a company that tried to make money while still giving it out for free. It went under (i wonder why).

bah

[binford2k]

What a waste of an article. I was hoping to find something new and interesting.

Re:Skip to Eight: Nautilus Scripts

[Whiney Mac Fanboy]

1. It doesn't - at least the last version I installed (3 months ago, I guess) doesn't.

Quoting from wikipedia:

DAEMON Tools is currently being developed and distributed by DAEMON's Home and is free for non-commercial purposes. Version 4 of DAEMON Tools is bundled with WhenU software, which is spyware.

This only happened recently (4.x series), but I think it was longer then four months ago.

2. It uninstalls in exactly the same way as every other Windows application - via Add/Remove programs.

Yes, but I had an image mounted (under a different user) & it did not uninstall correctly, but removed itself from the Add/Remove programs list. I eventually had to reghack & delete the binaries to get rid of it.

3. It creates a virtual CD-drive and mounts the image under each one. You can have up to 4.

Yes, I know. Thats why I said You have a limited number of ISOs you can have mounted. I need up to twelve.

4. I've never heard of these rumours, so I can't really comment. I do know I've been using it for the last 4 or 5 years without any spyware, adware, trojans, etc.

Yes, its only in the 4.x series (and you don't have to install it, but I don't trust a company that bundles whenU)

Re:Please let TFA say

[LittleLebowskiUrbanA]

Tabs will be added when someone provides a patch. In other words, never. Gnome isn't interested in tabs for Nautilus. Gnome will continue to be pushed as the default desktop of choice for every "Linux on the desktop" that fails (pretty standard in that area) while those of us who use Linux for choice and aren't afraid of tabs, address bar, etc will use KDE or Fluxbox. I predict KDE 4 will sneak up on Gnome users while Gnome is dropped from more distributions because of their tangled mss of dependancies (see Slackware).

  Too bad Gnome devels are such misguided idealists.