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The sidebar has got too many unremovable places at the top, which leave little space for other potentially more relevant places before they overflow out of view by scrolling. A set of special user directories (DOCUMENTS, MUSIC, PICTURES, VIDEOS, and DOWNLOAD) are found near the top, and cannot be removed, even if people don't need quick access to all of them. Bookmarks (i.e. custom locations added to the sidebar by the users) are always at the bottom, which means they are the first to go out of view. This is made worse by internal storage units being back to the sidebar. To fix these issues, let's reorganize the places: - reduce the number of default sidebar locations by turning the special user directories into regular bookmarks[0] that people can reorder or remove from the sidebar. - show bookmarks before mounts; this allows special user locations to remain close to their previous position, keep important bookmarks from being scrolled out of view, and instead overflow excess mounts/devices. While at it, reposition the Home to the first place, as it is the first location shown when launching the app. Part of: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/3012 [0] This assumes a default set of bookmarks including these directories is created by xdg-user-dirs-update-gtk on first login. Ensuring it is installed, running on startup, and working correctly is a system integration and quality assurance task for vendors/administrators. |
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nautilus
This is the project of the Files app, a file browser for
GNOME, internally known by its historical name nautilus.
Supported version
Only the latest version of Files as provided upstream is supported. Try out the Flatpak nightly installation before filling issues to ensure the installation is reproducible and doesn't have downstream changes on it. In case you cannot reproduce in the nightly installation, don't hesitate to file an issue in your distribution. This is to ensure the issue is well triaged and reaches the proper people.
Contributing to nautilus
To build the development version of the Files app and hack on the code see the welcome guide.
Commit messages should follow the expected format detailed here.
Update default branch
The default development branch of nautilus has been renamed to main. To
update your local checkout, use:
git checkout master
git branch -m master main
git fetch
git branch --unset-upstream
git branch -u origin/main
git symbolic-ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD refs/remotes/origin/main
Runtime dependencies
- Bubblewrap installed. Used for security reasons.
- LocalSearch properly set up and with all features enabled. Used for fast search and metadata extraction, starred files and batch renaming.
Discourse
For more informal discussion we use GNOME Discourse in the Applications category with the nautilus tag. Feel free to open a topic there.
Extensions
Documentation for the libnautilus-extension API is available here. Also, if you are interested in developing a Nautilus extension in Python you should refer to the nautilus-python documentation.
How to report issues
Report issues to the GNOME issue tracking system.