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Major changes in 3.5.4 are:
* Add Copy To and Move To actions
* Add a notification while ejecting volumes
* List view:
- New date format display
- Use a list model instead of a tree model for list view
- Use a better default column order
- Change some list column names
- Use 32px icons by default
- Tweak padding
* Search:
- "Just type" search
- Combine the search bar and the query editor
- Tracker engine performance improvements and fixes
* Sidebar:
- Add a recent files place
- Use symbolic icons
- Improve order of the items
* Toolbar:
- Change toolbar layout to the GNOME 3 style
- Don't show titlebar when maximized
- Use a linked style for the pathbar
* Menus:
- Migrate the menubar to a gear menu
- Remove "Go" menu
- Remove "Bookmarks" menu
* Remove "Text beside icons" option for icon view
* Fix loading string not disappearing in image properties on load
Major changes in 3.5.3 are:
* Fix accessibility implementation of rename entries and icon view
* Fix DnD not working on sidebar bookmarks
* Fix thumbnails failing to display in icon view
* Fix crasher after ejecting a volume from the sidebar
* Fix crasher on gtk-shell-shows-app-menu GtkSetting change
* Fix possible crasher when cancelling a rename operation
* Use GtkSearchEntry
Major changes in 3.5.2 are:
* Add a way to create a new directory for selection
* Don't pack multiple x-content bars in the view
* Show icons x-content bar application launchers
* Hide New Document menu when no templates are installed
* Remove statusbar
* Remove "Go->Computer"
* Remove compact view
* Remove extra panes and tree sidebar
* Fix pathbar buttons disappearing for too long titles
* Fix sidebar typeahead find being triggered
* Fix image properties label not wrapping for long width
* Don't trigger context menu for sidebar headings
* Don't show old 'note' emblems
* Reintroduce GTK accel map loading/saving and migrate it to XDG dirs
* Remove markup from GtkBuilder strings
Major changes in 3.5.1 are:
* Add an application menu
* Don't show sliders up to the file system root in the pathbar
* Add support for AFP shares in the Connect to Server dialog
* Don't remove selection when clicking on a row out of name boundaries
* Fix a wrapping issue with numeric strings in some circumstances
* Fix rename field selection color for backdrop state
* Don't select all icons on Ctrl+A when the search entry is focused
* Remove desktop-is-home-dir GSetting
* Remove custom accel map loading/saving
* Use new XDG location for GTK bookmarks file
Major changes in 3.4.1 are:
* Don't display comment field for desktop files
* Fix off-by-one error in file operation counts
* Fix mouse hardware back/forward buttons not working correctly
* Fix "Undo Trash" for files with non-ASCII characters
* Fix name corruption for untitled files under some circumstances
Major changes in 3.4.0 are:
* Fix a regression where "Open With" was hidden for folders
* Translation updates
Major changes in 3.3.92 are:
* Fix scrolling in compact view to work with latest GTK
* Fix Ctrl+Scroll zooming to work with latest GTK
* Don't hide Open With applications for subtypes of application/x-desktop
* Add support for the "network" GVolume class identifier
* Fix a crash at exit with certain extensions that keep refs of the
NautilusFileInfos
* Fix initial focus row when moving the focus into the Places sidebar
* Fix Shift+Click selection when going back/forward in browsing history
* Fix packing of desktop file box in properties view
* Fix pathbar button sizing when a file watched by the pathbar changes name
* Fix properties window not being able to shrink size
* Remove unused --enable-profiler configure option
Major changes in 3.3.91 are:
* Ensure pathbar scrolling works with latest GTK
* Fix a crash when unmounting volumes with non-empty trash
* Fix a race condition leading to a crash when closing window slots
under certain circumstances
Major changes in 3.3.90 are:
* Don't make the inactive pane UI elements insensitive
* Fix a crash when searching in list and compact view
* Fix a crash when creating a file from a template
* Use ngettext plural forms for undo strings
Major changes in 3.3.5 are:
* Introduce Undo support for common file operations
* Fix a crash when middle clicking icons on the desktop
* Fix split view actions not updating properly
* Fix wrong places sidebar selection under some locales
* Fix a crash when enabling desktop icons handling
* Support build against Tracker 0.13/0.14
* Make the rubberband animation obey the global GtkSetting
Major changes in 3.3.4 are:
* Show both the current file counter and the total files in file operations UI
* Lazily initialize the notification daemon
* Move the UI files and icons into GResources
* Refactor of NautilusWindowPane and NautilusWindowSlot code
* libnautilus-extension GIR coverage has been improved
Major changes in 3.3.3 are:
* Implement the org.freedesktop.FileManager1 DBus interface
* Show context menu for current folder when clicking empty space
in list view
* Sort XDG dirs in the places sidebar according to the current locale
* Fix handling of Ctrl+T on the desktop window
* Fix icon view wrap-around key navigation
* Fix rubberband scrolling in maximized windows
* Fix a crasher when closing a window
* Don't use deprecated GLib and GTK functions
Major changes in 3.3.1 are:
* Show a Properties item in the sidebar for mounts
* Use GtkStyleContext to draw editable label elements
* Port to use GtkGrid
* Don't use deprecated GThread API
* Fix pie chart background rendering in Properties view
* Fix a crasher when activating a sidebar item
* Cleanup old libeel boilerplate code
Major changes in 3.2.1 are:
* Consolidate typeahead find entry for icon view
* Fix a crasher when middle-clicking empty space in the places sidebar
* Fix a crasher when trying to delete files from the tree sidebar
* Fix a crasher when ejecting a removable device under some circumstances
* Fix a crasher when trying to activate the previewer in a list view
with no selection
* Fix a crasher when symbolic icon theme is not available
* Plug some memory leaks
* Fix the build when Tracker FTS is enabled
Major changes in 3.2.0 are:
* Fix a couple of drawing regressions introduced in 3.1.92
* Lots of translation updates
Major changes in 3.1.92 are:
* Hopefully fix once and for all NautilusWindow keybindings
* Don't hide the floating bar on hover if it's interactive
* Fix canvas accessibility implementation for GTK 3.2
* Don't warn when opening multiple files with one application
* Correctly remember remote passwords when asked so
* Add a new topic-based help menu
* Fix default list view sorting order
* Don't warn when a mount operation fails with ALREADY_MOUNTED
* Select the item on right click in the Tree sidebar
* Scroll to the selected file when opening an URI from the cmdline
* Read the emblem icon names from the metadata
* Use libtracker-sparql directly as an optional dependency
* Streamline icon container rendering code to use gtk_render_*
* Correctly remember "Keep Aligned" and other desktop metadata
* Invalidate the text size when changing the DPI xsetting
* Strip the hardcoded theme bits
* Add Unity desktop file compatibility
* Use XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP when possible
Major changes in 3.1.90 are:
* Remove the built-in audio previewer
Major changes in 3.1.4 are:
* Remove the 'Create Launcher' options from the desktop
* Improve the 'File System' entry in the places sidebar
* Remove 'Clear History' from the 'Go' menu
* Fix location bar not expanding full width in the toolbar
* Use new g_format_size() instead of g_format_size_for_display()
Major changes in 3.1.3 are:
* Add an 'Add Bookmark' item in sidepane context menu
* Fix --no-default-window not working when an URI is specified
* Use g_cclosure_marshal_generic()
Major changes in 3.1.2 are:
* Use GtkOverlay for the floating bar
* Move the floating bar away from the cursor on hover
* Add an autostart desktop file
* Add metadata::custom-icon-name key for custom icons
* Fix opening the wrong directory when launching an instance
from the command line
* Misc crashers
Major changes in 3.1.1 are:
* Add a DBus previewer interface to support e.g. the Sushi previewer
* Rework handling of _NETSCAPE_URL dnd links
* Optimizations in the sorting/layouting code for Icon View
* Misc bugfixes
Major changes in 3.0.1.1 are:
* Fix some crashers
* Don't show file transfer progress twice
Major changes in 3.0.1 are:
* Fix white background bug when drawing desktop icons
* Fix crash while ejecting volumes from the places sidebar
* Fix enter not working in the places sidebar
* Fix conflict dialog labels and entry sizing
* Fix drawing artifacts in the search bar
* Fix single click preferences mismatch
* Fix additional details label colors when using a11y themes
* Fix some minor/sporadic crashers
* Fix libnotify and libexif version checks
Major changes in 3.0 are:
* Use Ctrl+Delete as keyboard shortcut to trash files
* Make sure we always open new windows from the desktop
* Fix a crasher
Major changes in 2.91.4 are:
* Fix eject button hover in places sidebar
* Use new gnome-help pages for help buttons
* Fix a crasher when toggling desktop_is_home_dir
* Fix a memory leak
Major changes in 2.91.93 are:
* Fix some memory leaks
Major changes in 2.91.92 are:
* Use a raised button for Search
* Tweak the floating bar background
* Only show the "Loading..." floating bar after half a second of loading
* Style cluebars according to mockups
* Fix some split view regressions
* Misc bugfixes
Major changes in 2.91.91 are:
* Allow the dbus manager to run as a service
* Create folders in subdirectories in list view, when possible
* Make sure we don't focus headers in the places sidebar
* Don't activate 'Rename' in the sidebar for non-bookmarks
* Fix the list view not updating anymore after creating an empty file
* Fix regressions in rename widget focus
* Fix some UI regressions from the latest changes
Major changes in 2.91.90.1 are:
* Make modules of extensions pulling in ORBit resident, to avoid
ORBit's atexit()'s handler to call into unloaded code
* Cleanup some unused code
Major changes in 2.91.90 are:
* Huge changes in the user interface, to match GNOME3 mockups
* Remove the spatial mode
* Updated tracker search engine to use libtracker-sparql
* Consistently use "Home" instead of the username
* Rename the GSettings schema path to /org/gnome/nautilus
* Remove the ability for extensions to create toolbar items
Major changes in 2.91.9 are:
* Remove GConf dependency completely
* Fade-out eyecandy for selection rubberband
* Use notifications instead of a status icon for transfer progress
* Change launcher name to 'Files'
* Fix a couple of crashers and UI regressions
Major changes in 2.91.8 are:
* Propagate custom icons to bookmarks
* Don't quit the application if there are file operations running
* Better keynav in the places sidebar
* Use symbolic icons for the notification area
* Fix some drawing regressions while renaming
* Fix issues with the default sort order selection
* Completely remove GConf dependency
* Large refactor of NautilusWindow/NautilusView architecture
* Cleanup installed desktop files
* Fix a couple of crashers
* Build with GCC 4.6
Major changes in 2.91.7 are:
* Adapt to GTK+ 2.99.0 deprecations
* Fix a crasher in the pathbar
* Use a consistent name for the Home folder
* Use a consistent name for the 'Create New Folder/Document' menu items
* Build tweaks
Major changes in 2.91.6 are:
* Fix build with GTK+ 2.91.7
Major changes in 2.91.5 are:
* Tweak sidebar appearance with CSS
* Remove 'exit-with-last-window' preference
* Remove support for saving state with XSMP
* Fix some UI GtkStyleContext regressions
* Fix a11y for NautilusIconCanvasItem
* Properly support '~' in the location bar
Major changes in 2.91.4 are:
* Port to the new GtkAppChooser widget family
* Port to GtkStyleContext
* Add DBus interfaces for copying files and emptying trash
* Remove Beagle search support
* Remove History and Notes sidebar
* Use a new simpler debug infrastructure
* Make the preferences an app-wide singleton window
* Fix some drawing regressions
Major changes in 2.91.3 are:
* Remove autorun and automount machinery, it moved to gnome-settings-daemon
* Don't install the 'File Management Properties' binary; there's now
a capplet in gnome-control-center for the autorun system settings.
* Fix interaction with the session manager
* Don't use gtk_[h|v]_separator_new
* Identify OGG Vorbis files as music in the search UI
* Require new gnome-desktop
Major changes in 2.91.2 are:
* Use GSettings for desktop background
* Cleanups of the emblem-related code
* Fix some bad interactions with GApplication
* Fix an annoying crasher
Major changes in 2.91.1 are:
* Fix a number of GTK+ 3 regressions
* Port to the new GApplication API
* Add a settings key to make the background fade effect optional
* Add a settings key to register an external mass-renamer
* Drop support for old EXIF/XMP APIs
* Move the nautilus-sendto extension module in-tree
Major changes in 2.91.0.1 are:
* Fix a crash related to GtkSpinner
* Fix the filename cell renderer to use the new GtkSizeRequest functions
Major changes in 2.91.0 are:
* New UI for the 'Places' sidebar
* New UI for the 'Connect to server' dialogue
* Highlight the eject button upon hovering in the Places sidebar
* Make file conflict dialog strings I18N-friendly
* Port to GTK3 new drawing functions
* Cleanup background-related code
* Various crashers and glitches fixes
Major changes in 2.90.1 are:
* Port to GSettings
* Port to cairo drawing
* Remove the "Backgrounds and Emblems" feature
* Use GEmblemedIcon to draw icon emblems in list/tree views
* Cleanup of libeel's obsolete code
* Always show free space in the status string
* Disable icon scaling outside the desktop
* Various minor UI fixes
Major changes in 2.31.5 are:
* Expand and collapse folders with +/- in list view
* Ask for confirmation when opening a large number of files
* Rename .desktop files also change their name on disk
* Support overriding .gnome2 directory
* Save passwords for the session by default
* Remove deleted folders from the pathbar
* Require GTK+ 2.90.5
Major changes in 2.31.4 are:
* Depend on GTK+ 3.0
* Replace libunique with GApplication
* Don't show 'File Browser' anymore in the window title
Major changes in 2.31.3 are:
* Port to GDBus
* Change the default order for files in special directories
* Support relative paths in the location entry/dialog.
* Translation updates
Major changes in 2.31.2 are:
* Use folder icons as window icons in browser and spatial mode
* Add 'Trashed On' and 'Original Location' columns in the trash
* Implement transparent icons for cut files
* Change default thumbnail size
* Fix a number of bugs related to bookmarks
* Translation updates
Major changes in 2.31.1 are:
* New dialog to handle conflicts within file copy/move operations
* New button in the trashbar to restore selected items
* Use XDG_CONFIG dir to store configuration. The old configuration files
will be migrated there automatically.
* Use async I/O to save .gtk-bookmarks
* Fix a number of issues related to DnD in the places sidebar
* New icon for audio preview
* Don't show Unmount when showing Eject/Safe Removal
* Bump libnautilus-extension API version
* Fix a number of UI glitches
* Translation updates
Major changes in 2.30.1 are:
* Translation updates
* Support for tracker 0.8.0
* Fix crashes
* Fix emblem scaling in zoomed view
* Fix sensitivity of split-view related menu items
* Control-L closes the extra view first, not the window
Major changes in 2.30.0 are:
* By default, don't exit with last window even if desktop is
not visible. This way we still run to handle e.g. volume
monitoring. If you don't want this, change
/apps/nautilus/preferences/exit_with_last_window
to True in gconf
* Don't show weird border around desktop
* Correctly put focus on view for new windows
* Extra view does not get focus when created
* Add nicer thumbnail border
* Fix crash when hiding search bar
* Fix build on sun compiler
* Support AIFF for audio preview
* Translation updates
Major changes in 2.29.92.1 are:
* Fix compilation due to deprecated GTK_WIDGET_STATE symbol
* Fix libm linking
* Updated Portuguese translation
Major changes in 2.29.92 are:
* Make view default focus in new windows
* Put tabs at the top again
* Don't use deprecated gtk widgets
* Allow Alt-<num> to switch tabs
* Dynamically load tracker support
* Don't auto-close the window you initiated an unmount in
Major changes in 2.29.91 are:
* Make it possible to have backgrounds spanning multiple monitors.
* Better handling of closing windows when device is unmounted
* Use GtkSpinner instead of custom widget
* Translation updates
Major changes in 2.29.90 are:
* Fix copy-pasted tooltip string
* Translation updates
Major changes in 2.29.2 are:
* Align sidebar header and location bar
* Remove tabs menu
* Update translations
Major changes in 2.29.1 are:
* Make browser mode the default
* Add split view mode
* Browser UI reorganization
* Better background support on multi-monitor setups
* Support new "default location" on mounts (supported by ftp and sftp)
* Add extension api to lookup NautilusFileInfo objects
* Make the search toolbar button a toggle button
* Ctrl+shift does multiple range selection in list view
Major changes in 2.28.0 are:
* Translation updates
* Don't load non-images for thumbnailing when zoomed
* Made desktop window a native X window for nicer redrawing
* Fix leaks
Major changes in 2.27.92 are:
* Fix crash on logout
* Translation updates
* Always show app icon in open with popup menu
* fix duplicate id in ui file
* Fix warning in new power manager inhibiting
Major changes in 2.27.91 are:
* Migrate old-style nautilus metadata to gvfs metadata
* Fix viewing of very small image files
* Respect disable_command_line option
* Reverse mouse button used for back/forward to same as firefox
* Always show menu icons for menu items representing files
* Inhibit suspend during file operations
* Cancel audio preview when deleting the previewed file
Major changes in 2.27.4 are:
* Add support for starting and stopping drives
* Use the new GVfs metadata framework
* Support new style unmount operations; this will provide a nice dialog when
unmounting a busy drive mount
* Add application icons to the Open With context menu
* Reload xdg-user-dirs according to the user preferences
Major changes in 2.27.2 are:
* Support ctrl-drop in list view
* Allow user defined keyboard shortcuts for extension items
* Fix crash on click on toolbar
* Fix crash on entering empty location
* Added daemon-mode (don't exit with last window)
* Display info about the selected item in the information sidebar
* Sort applications in open with
Major changes in 2.27.1 are:
* Drop GTK+ deprecated symbols
* Display the application icon in the popup menu
* Fix autorun hints for Win32 software media
* Allow shift+return during typeahead find
* Update desktop icons according to DPI changes
* Use the correct folder icon fallbacks
* Autogenerate ChangeLog and use shave to display the build output
Major changes in 2.26.2 are:
* Fix issue with default dnd type when dragging to a parent directory
* Fix icon view RTL layout in compact view
* Make sure spatial geometry is always saved when closing windows
* Save and load custom accelerator maps
* Check for PackageKit before showing dialog using it
* Add "location" column
* Show both unmount and eject in menus for mounts that support both
Major changes in 2.26.1 are:
* Better handling of thumbnail scaling
* Support XDS in list view
* Make session loading work
* Start Nautilus on requested screen
* Fix crashes
* Fix possible infinite layout loop in compact mode
* Update fallback icon to not look like gnome 1.x
* Fix some cases of sync i/o
* Handle non-gvfs uris like e.g. mailto and http links with queries in links
Major changes in 2.26.0 are:
* Stable release
* Fix crash due to broken gdk-pixbuf tga loader
* make sure thumbnails are updated even when zoomed up
* fix crash in media settings preferences
Major changes in 2.25.93 are:
* Use ConsoleKit to make sure we only autorun on active sessions
* Never show unmount if we show an eject menu item
* Show the gvfs reported owner/group names
* Don't allow changing default app for folders
* Fix "can't unmount same location twice" bug
Major changes in 2.25.92 are:
* Set mmap limit to avoid desktop background memory not being returned to the os
* Warn when source overwrites destination in move
* Don't put "link to ..." in front of symlinks unless there are name conflicts
* Fix desktop flicker on theme change
* Require desktop file app launchers to be executable
* Support making symlinks on remote locations (if supported by backend)
Major changes in 2.25.91 are:
* Use G_DEFINE_TYPE_* instead of hand-written types
* fix: opening a new window restores minimised ones
* fix renaming of desktop files
* Handle new kinds of GIcons
* Don't display shadowed mounts
Major changes in 2.25.4 are:
* Don't show desktop files from other desktops than Gnome on the desktop
* Support crossfades of desktop backgrounds
* Don't snap desktop icons outside right margin
* Fix crashes and leaks
Major changes in 2.25.3 are:
* Remove CD/DVD creator from places menu and sidebar
* Allow deleting custom emblems
* Fix crashes
* Don't show read-only emblems in trash
* Trash performance fixes
* General performance fixes
* Update to new PackageKit API
Major changes in 2.25.2 are:
* Merged eel into nautilus
* Use single glib/gtk includes
* Support PackageKit application search
* Fix new windows not appearing after successful mount
* Remove support for old KDE trash dirs
Major changes in 2.25.1 are:
* Remove depencency on libgnome & gnome-vfs
* Fix crashes
* Chop trailing space characters when moving to FAT file system
* When DnD'ing, COPY instead of MOVE, when the source is not deletable
* Don't set default when opening with other app, just add to open with list.
* Don't make copies of files from readonly source (e.g. CDROM) readonly
* Don't show cancel dialog when showing the "run or display" dialog
Major changes in 2.24.0 are:
* Icon/compact view:
* Follow run-time changes to set of icon text attributes to be displayed
* Invalidate icon label when changing zoom level or “text besides icon”
* List view:
* Properly offer textual drag target
* Request centered autorun dialog
* Always sort folders before files, even if sort criterion is reversed
* Always assume that trash directories are local
* Fix Small leaks and thinkos
Major changes in 2.23.92 are:
* Icon/compact view:
* Allow to select range in addition to current selection, when pressing ctrl
and shift at once [not yet doable in list view]
* Fix layout timestamp storage when moving items around on desktop
* List view:
Default to reverse sort order for date columns (i.e. recent to old)
* Improve “Clear History” confirmation dialog
* Use GdkAppLaunchContext instead of EelAppLaunchContext
* Fix small leaks
Major changes in 2.23.91 are:
* Make autorun work for blank media
* No more pixelated SVGs displayed for desktop items with absolute icon SVG paths
* Use consistent labels, mnemonics and icons for trash and delete actions
* Icon container (i.e. icon view and compact view)
* RTL support for vertical layout
* Always reveal entire rows or columns of icons
* Nicer icon container bounds
* (Again) vastly improved keyboard navigation, especially in RTL mode
* No more overlapping desktop icons, when files are added or volumes mounted
while Nautilus is not running. This is implemented with metadata timestamps when
the desktop icons are laid out.
* Rewrite large chunks of icon canvas text size handling
* Clear underlying items if hovered or selected item overlaps them
* List View
* Make scripts work when items in nested list view subdirectories are selected
* Usual minor fix & polish galore
Major changes in 2.23.90 are:
* Truncate long item labels in the icon view and on the desktop
+ icon_view/text_ellipsis_limit and desktop/text_ellipsis_limit GConf
preferences added (defaults to three lines)
+ expand when hovering, or when selecting a file
* Support restoring of multiple items from trash at once
* Handle scroll events on the path bar
* Fix “same file system” (i.e. copy vs. move) DND check for desktop
* Fix search for content type in simple search backend
* Fix running of scripts on the desktop
* Use more archive file types for file-roller integration for remote locations
* Consolidate zoom handling internals
* Show file name instead of URI in the bookmark editor window for local files
* Polish “Visible Columns“ list view dialog
Major changes in 2.23.6.1 are:
* Fix display name of computer:// icons
Major changes in 2.23.6 are:
* Support transferring files with reserved FAT characters to a FAT file system
Replace them with an underscore if neccessary
* Use x-content/* MIME type to associate applications with hotpluggable media
* Path bar
* enable control-left click and middle-click interaction for path bar buttons
* dynamically handle hierarchy changes in the path bar
* Icon view keyboard navigation
* Use linear selection instead of rectangle selection in when pressing shift
* Still offer rectangular selection when pressing ctrl and shift
* Only wrap around horizontally in horizontal layout mode,
* Only wrap around vertically in vertical layout mode
* Never wrap around when in rectangle selection
* Icon view now remembers last position when reloading in vertical layout
* List view: Do not request mass redraw when dragging
* Clear display name when changing file name
* Only show "... All" actions ("Skip All", ...) in file operation dialogs if more
than one file is transferred
* Identify to GNOME session as file manager, not as generic desktop application
Major changes in 2.23.5.1 are:
* Fix crasher in spatial mode when closing window with ctrl-w
* Work around GTK+ tree view bug for sidebar eject button click area
* Some popup menu fixes
* Do not use C_() due to intltool bug
Major changes in 2.23.5 are:
* Add tab support to browser mode
* Add "restore from trash" functionality (only per item)
* Path bar and notebooks can be used as fully functional URI drop targets
* Places sidebar
* Add eject buttons to volumes
* Fix bookmark reordering
* Make DND indication consistent with GTK+ file chooser
* Async I/O
* Use NautilusFile instead of GFile for path bar display name
* Use NautilusFile for DND "same FS" check
* Fix navigation where window was inconsistently "stuck" between two
directories, i.e. the view was not completely changed.
* Fix huge leak - status bar messages were never popped from the stack
* Always grab focus on location change, even if view is reused
* Icon view fixes
* If no icon is selected, but an icon has the keyboard focus, select it when
pressing space.
* Move keyboard focus after a file has been removed
* Fix double-clicking of half-shown items
* Thumbnailing changes
* Never scale up any thumbnails
* Compose and scale thumbnails on the fly
* Speed up loading of large image files used as their own thumbnails
* Display emblems for small icon sizes
* Offer clipboard contents as text/uri-list
* Use UTF-8 dash for properties window instead of "--"
* Misc
* Allow to build without XMP
* Require beagle 0.2.4
* Require intltool 0.36.3.
Major changes in 2.23.4 are:
* Fix background extension submenus for background context menus
* Fix thumbnailing
* Always re-thumbnail if a file without any thumbnail changes
* Always re-thumbnail if a failed thumbnail is not up to date
* Make zoom level specifications consistent (33% vs. 25%), round to 66% rather than 67%.
* Never hide hidden or backup files in trash
* Always copy file entire metadata when copying. Fixes timestamp preservation.
* Remove desktop emblem from desktop directory, since the folder now uses a desktop icon
Major changes in 2.23.3 are:
* Use bilinear interpolation instead of hyperbolic. Massively speeds up thumbnailing.
* Fix thumbnail frame size calculation
* Rework properties dialog
* Remove "Launcher" tab, and move all the launcher properties to "Basic"
* Hide useless file info widgets from "Basic" tab for special locations like "computer:///".
* Support adding files to archives via file-roller
* Add location popup context menu to all path bar buttons
* Fix location popup context menu separators
* Add "Paste Into" item to location popup context menu
* Do not count the same inode twice when calculating directory sizes
* Never copy to "trash:///", never move to "burn:///"
* Never maximize windows opened from shell if a custom geometry has been specified
* Properly close windows displaying the media root location when ejecting a medium
* Empty the clipboard when copying/moving with DND to a container
* Remove libbackground
* Require eel 2.23.2 due to directory background API changes.
Major changes in 2.23.2 are:
* Increase default thumbnailing size limit
* Various fixes to keyboard handling in icon and list view
* Use description from gio as window title
* Fix double click behaviour in list view
* Remember windows size when closed while maximized
* Always use single click policy in the places sidebar
* Fix selection handling after canceling delete operation
* Improve autorun behaviour
* Improve internal error handling
* Fix adding emblems
* Fix gconf preferences description
* Improve list column page indentation
* Prevent recursive move/copy into itself
* Show mount dialog for already mounted shares too
* Prevent autogenerated file names from overflowing the max filename length
* Use ellipsis as per HIG
* Fix leaks
* Fix crashes
* Build fixes
* Translation updates
Major changes in 2.23.1 are:
* Support new gnome-session autostart semantics.
* Unify session save/restore routines with "--restart" and "--load-session"
* Allow to invert selection
* Do not automount mount points inside hidden hierarchies
* Add NautilusFileInfo APIs: can_write(), get_mount(), get_parent_info()
* Add initial Gtk-doc support.
* Remove some dead code.
Major changes in 2.22.1 are:
* Fix crashes and leaks
* Fix emblem display in property page
* Fix mime choosing to not always create application/x-ext-<extension> type
* Actually mount location in external connect to server dialog
* Fix thumbnail size limit checks
* Fix "show hidden" to also show backup files
(was broken in some situations)
* Verify that tracker is running before using it
* Fix desktop file icon handling with absolute filenames
* Use GDesktopAppInfos to launch desktop files
* Don't follow symlinks for deep file count
* Fix audio preview with later gstreamer
* Make "move file over directory" overwrite case work
* Sometimes we failed to ask for overwrite when move
operations falled back to copy + delete
* Make sure we correctly transcode filenames when merging
directories if the directory is on another filesystem.
* Some moves were reported as copies, not moves in the ui
which could cause not up-to-date directory displays
* Don't center file progress dialog if its already displayed
Major changes in 2.22.0 are:
* Fix typo in strings
* Fix crashes
* Use a better icon for the progress dialog
* Have a mount menu for mountable files, not an unmount one
* Handle broken bookmark files bette
* Sniff x-content type asynchronously
* Don't look for autorun stuff on non-local files
* Allow setting permissions on remote shares
* Fix "delete all" button in delete dialog
* Show custom icons at right size
* Fix some performance issues on nonlocal mounts
Major changes in 2.21.92 are:
* Build fixes
* Fix crashes and leaks
* Fix handling of desktop file launchers
* Better handling of desktop file icons
* Semitransparent DnD icon support (when composited)
* Avoid showing progress info when dialogs are shown
* Allow minimize of progress window
* Handle beagle >= 0.3.0
* Close properties dialog on escape
* Make custom icons work again
* Fix fuzzy icons
* Duplicate file if copies to the source directory
* Support open with dialog for multiple selected files
* Ressurect connect to server dialog
* Allow theming of free diskspace chart colors
Major changes in 2.21.91 are:
* String cleanups
* Inhibit autorun for things we mount ourselves
* Fix crashes and leaks
* Only show selinux context if selinux detected
* Default to move, not copy when dragging from trash
* Don't autorun/automount non-local mounts
* Fix case where we could run out of file descriptors
* Handle drop of files on the desktop
* Fix sensitiveness of delete from trash menu item
* Fix open with context menu in always-use-browser mode
Major changes in 2.21.90 are:
* Use thousand separators in all numbers (if used by locale)
* Fix leaks
* Performance improvements
* Update to latest glib APIs
* Fix bug that lost metadata from older versions
* Fix crashes
* Enable paste into folder for desktop icons
* Better finding of autorun files on case sensitive media
Major changes in 2.21.6 are:
* Regenerate thumbnails when files change
* Fix crashes
* New autorun and automount support
* Allow unmount of current location if its a mountpoint
Major changes in 2.21.5 are:
* Add autorun/automount feature
* Better handling of sensitivity of delete menu items
* Better handling of mount/unmount/eject in many places
* Fix for extensions with submenus
* Fix crashes
* Updated some icons to the Tango look
* Fix some portability issues
Major changes in 2.21.2 are:
* Update pkg-config files with new extensions dir
* Add some gio features to extension API
* Handle dnd of desktop icons
* Update to latest gvfs/gio API
* Implement some missing unmount/eject operations
Major changes in 2.21.1 are:
* Totally replaced gnome-vfs use with gio
* New implementation of file operations like copy/move with
a shared progress dialog
* Lots of cleanup
Major changes in 2.20.0 are:
* Load thumbnails asynchronously
* Support direct save DnD (XDS)
* Fix up octal permission display
* Store window keep-above and stickines state across sessions
Major changes in 2.19.91 are:
* Be more robust against broken extensions
* Set current working directory right on desktop when running scripts
* Fix crash on file:///#
* Update to cope with the new size of emblem icons
Major changes in 2.19.90 are:
* Auto-size list view filename column again
* New message for service unavailable error
* UI terminology consistency fix
* Build fix
Major changes in 2.19.6 are:
* Fixes to UI manager usage
* Better string ellipsation
* Consistent focus behaviour for toolbar buttons
* Support for XMP image metadata
* Improved keyboard handling in connect to server dialog
* I18n fixes and string clarifications
* Add more tooltips and use new gtk+ tootips API
* Better handling of unreadable directories during search
* Fix various crashes
* Translation updates
Major changes in 2.19.5 are:
* Build fixes
* Fix leaks
* Fix crash
* Improved JPEG metadata handling
* Fix information sidebar layout
* Translation updates
Major changes in 2.19.4 are:
* Allow activating the zoom context menu by keyboard
* Allow renaming of the network servers icons
* Use new desktop capplet
* Better handling of unicode search terms
* Fix program name in about dialog
* Fix keyboard shortcuts in preferences dialog
* Fix leak in zoom context menu
* Fix typos in error and warning messages
* Fix crash in properties dialog
Major changes in 2.19.3 are:
* Added support for xdg-user-dirs
* A11y fix in the file properties dialog
* Build fix
* Don't show folder handler in menu editor
* Added alpha support for icon frames
* Updated thumbnail frame
Major changes in 2.19.2 are:
* Fix crashes and leaks
* Add open in place sidebar context menu
* Make default icon sizes match xdg icon sizes better
* Fix hang with recursive symlinks
* Make name column wider
* Add trash to places sidebar
* Support for thumbnail icon size preference
* Disk free pie chart in properties dialog
Major changes in 2.18.0.1 are:
* Reverted accidental commit
Major changes in 2.18.0 are:
* Fix up desktop file categories
* Some sparse code cleanups
* Don't make filename column expand
Major changes in 2.17.92 are:
* Don't display homedir as "desktop" in pathbar when in home-as-desktop mode
* Use GtkLabel ellipsizing
* Ellipsize filename column in list view
* Don't show unsupported methods in connect-to-server dialog
* Fix crashes
Major changes in 2.17.91 are:
* Change file management capplet category
* Avoid showing "empty" in the tree while loading directory
* Prompt for empty trash on unmount
* Capitalize lin" in "Link to ..." names
* Fix crashes and memory leaks
Major changes in 2.17.90 are:
* Add nautilus_file_info_get_activation_uri for extensions
* Zero-pad seconds in progress display
* Fix permissions of files created from templates
* Support multimedia keys
* Fix leaks
* Fix crashes
Major changes in 2.17.1 are:
* Empty trash button in trash
* New menu icons for new document/folder/window
* Ring buffer for debugging
* Fix spinner size
* Open location dialog on desktop defaults to home
* Remove metadata on external delete events
* Draw text selection rectangle using cairo
* Jump to selection on sort order change
* Fix gsequence crash
* Freeze icon view while renaming
* New theming features for icon view
* New icon in about dialog
* Handle scroll button while rubberbanding
* Ellipsize menu button at 16 chars
Major changes in 2.16.3 are:
* Revert a patch that caused icons to move around
* Fix crash introduced in 2.16.2
Major changes in 2.16.2 are:
* Fix a lot of crashes
* Handle throbbers with different sizes
* Don't add a newline when pasting filenames
* Better a11y relationships betweeen widgets
* Make nautilus --quit not be restarted by session
* Fix occasional stuck grabs when rubberband selecting
* Don't timeout typeahead when scrolling with mouse wheel
* Add X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Version to desktop files
* Fix desktop icon overlap problem
Major changes in 2.16.1 are:
* Default to search in current directory for non-indexed search
* Fix clash with symbol names in gtk+
Major changes in 2.16.0 are:
* Handle enter activation when using typeahead search
* Avoid using gnome_vfs_is_local in wrong places
* Translations
Major changes in 2.15.92.1 are:
* Fix crash on startup
Major changes in 2.15.92 are:
* Fix crash on changing owner/group of file
* Fix double free
* Make sure all strings are displayed translated
Major changes in 2.15.91 are:
* Use gtk recent files code
* Fix file change notification regression
* Don't display raw form of selinux contexts
* Import lates EggSequence with bugfixes
* DnD fixes
* Read .hidden symlinks
* Fix down navigation in last column, next to last row
Major changes in 2.15.90 are:
* Submenu support for extensions
* Improved beagle daemon detection
* Enable D'n'D reordering in the places sidebar
* New icons for trash operations
* Add a button/text toggle button to the location bar
* Fix leak
Major changes in 2.15.4 are:
* New permission dialog with recursion and selinx support
* Improve extension interface
* Add complete session management
* Handle removal of the displayed location more elegantly
* Use proper nautilus-cd-burner icon
* Support dropping uris, urls and text to subfolders
* Fix leaks and warnings
Major changes in 2.15.2 are:
* Don't allow formating of mounted floppies
* Perfomance fixes
* Don't use deprecated eel features
* Use less memory when thumbnailing
Major changes in 2.15.1 are:
* Improve startup performance
* Use GOption
* Fix selection box width calculation
* Improve file permission handling
* Add volume operations to the file menu, tree and places sidebar
* New po/LINGUAS handling
* Smarter date handling for images
* HIG fixes
* Fix various typos
* Fix about dialog to work with current gtk+
* Fix crashes
* Show network volumes in the places sidebar
* Fix progress dialog showing the wrong file
* Code cleanups
Major changes in 2.14.1 are:
* Translation updates
* Code cleanups
* Use --no-desktop option for all desktop files
* Startup performance improvements
* Make files copied from read-only source writeable
* Don't allow bookmarking x-desktop:///
* Add help buttons to several dialogs
* Fix SVG file identification
* Properly break down URIs for connect to server ui
* Don't reposition icons on reload
* Show unmounted but user-visible drives in the places sidebar
* Display more info in the progress dialog when preparing
* Smarter DnD target selection
* Smaller close icon in the sidebar title
* GnomeGoals: Use po/LINGUAS
Major changes in 2.14.0 are:
* Fix deadlock when dragging over list view in some conditions
* Fix keynav details in text beside icon mode
* Don't show folder count for smb shares
* Fix crash on middle click of file
* Fix a crash when leaving a directory
* Close window when folder moves to trash
* Fix deep count in properties dialog in some cases
* Avoid calculating mime lists for activation
* Fix text drawing in RTL mode when using text besides icons
* Remove blank error dialog on mount when using gnome-mount
Major changes in 2.13.92 are:
* Better filename linebreaking at punctuation marks.
* List view: If a rename moves the file in the view, scroll to the new position
* Better handling of broken filename encoding for link targets
* Some desktop icon positioning fixes
* Browser mode: don't close window on up if current directory has been removed
* Pass original files, not target files to property page providers.
This allows property page extensions to look at desktop files and symlinks.
* Various small optimizations
* Leak fixes
* Build fixes
Major changes in 2.13.91 are:
* Fix a desktop icon positioning bug
* Fix opening saved searches file from outside nautilus
Major changes in 2.13.90 are:
* Add option to always use the location bar to the preferences dialog
* Enable the icons in the places sidebar as drop targets
* Fix for desktop volume icon positioning
* Show detailed file size in the properties dialog
* HIG fix for the delete from trash dialog
* Fix icon scaling for images with extreme ratios
* Fix leaks & crashes
Major changes in 2.13.4 are:
* Open modules with BIND_LOCAL
* Disable network icon on desktop by default
* Add Network to places menu
* Fix sort by atime
* Some HIG fixes
* Add support for searching for custom mime type
* store custom icons for folders as relative patch if in folder
* Much better activation of multiple files
* Bumped the default image size thumbnailing limit
* Handle new background image zooming mode
* Add optional support for Tracker indexer
* Fix leaks & crashes
Major changes in 2.13.3 are:
* Added initial support for search
* Fixed memleaks
* Don't frame thumbnails with alpha channel
* Better handling of opening multiple files
* New resize knob icon
* View update optimizations
* No titles for alert dialogs
* Add network desktop icon
* Use access() to determine permissions
Major changes in 2.13.2 are:
* Fix mime list problem introduced with sort change
* Build fixes
* Keyboard support for icon stretching
* Finally fix tree sidebar crash
* ctrl-shift-g goes backwards in typeahead
* Add Skip all button in copy/move conflict dialog
* Position new files/folders correctly in manual layout mode
* Nicer UI for setting custom file icons
* Fix CD icon positioning on desktop
* Fix desktop redraw issues on non-100% zoom levels
* Use the same home icon always
Major changes in 2.13.1 are:
* Adds volume/drive api for modules
* Better sizes of stock icons in many places
* GtkTreeView style typeahead
* '/' opens location dialog/entry
* middle click in browser mode opens new window
* Handle cancellation of authentication better
* Add format menu item for floppy drives
Major changes in 2.12.1 are:
* Pass all selected files to menu extensions, not only one per mimetype
* Use much fewer file monitors
* Fix text size on startup with non-standard default zoom size
* Some fixes to trash handling and unmount
* Fix some desktop icon positioning details
* Copy thumbnails when copying files
* Autofill connect to server dialog when possible
* Always show deep counts in properties page
* Fix leaks and crashes
* Correctly escape filenames for display in progress dialog
Major changes in 2.12.0 are:
* Fix icon layout in text-beside-icons mode in some cases
* Fix template creation on volumes other than the same as /tmp
* Expand file uris correctly on desktop when passing to scripts
* Workaround crash on audio preview in burn:
* Fix handling of global show hidden files preference
* Fix crash caused by earlier memleak fix
* Don't redraw windows/desktop on focus in/out
Major changes in 2.11.92 are:
* Enable emblem dropping to the list view
* Disallow deleting special locations from the location button popup
* Don't show "Open Folder" as application option in context menus
* Disallow custom icons for the trash
* Cleanups & Leak fixed
Major changes in 2.11.91 are:
* Don't allow renaming of the desktop folder
* Make moves within burn:// possible
* Fixes to property browser drag and drop code
* Add Explorer-style keybindings
* Add timestamps to metafiles
* Make ESC switch back to the pathbar
* Use saner check for mime mismatching
* Make progress dialog minimizable
* UI fixes
Major changes in 2.11.90 are:
* Handle dnd more efficently
* Use file-manager icon for browser windows
* Use hover underline and cursor for single click mode
* Make labels selectable in the sidebar
* Improve sound preview process handling
* UI fixes to path- and sidebar
Major changes in 2.11.4 are:
* Allow dnd of text on view to create a new file
* show hostname in progress dialogs
* use pathbar in location toolbar
* busy curson when loading folder in browser mode too
Major changes in 2.11.3 are:
* Turn the list view into a tree
* No dnd drop rect on the desktop
* Use gtk bookmars as bookmark source
* Add bookmarks to spatial mode
* New places sidebar
* better sort order for filenames with numbers in them
(needs glib 2.7.x)
* Better handling of font sizes wrt zoom in icon view
* Fix leaks
Major changes in 2.11.2 are:
* Fix sort order for size/count/time
* ctrl+scrollwheel changes zoom, ctrl-= zooms in
* better handling of cut and paste in notes text view
* Add smb domain field in connect to server dialog
* nicer handling of drops from mozilla
* no properties menu item for desktop context menu
* shift-f2 renames with the whole name initially selected
* sort by emblem only looks at user-set emblems
* scroll to icon when selected and partially visible
Major changes in 2.11.1 are:
* Use authentication in external connect to server app
* UI polish
* Allow DnD of location button icon.
* Context menus on location button and location label in browser
* Fix memory leaks
* Fix crashes
* Speed up delete in list view
* Fix rename in list view breaking when there was a file change
* Removed "new terminal" from desktop context menu
If you want this, install the nautilus-open-terminal extension,
its much better than this feature ever was.
* Don't thumbnail files constantly if they're changing
* Fixed a loop that could happen on remote locations when removing
a directory.
* Add properties of the current folder menu item to background
context menu
* Use --no-desktop in default folder handler to avoid taking over
the desktop if you don't run gnome.
Major changes in 2.10.1 are:
* Use less memory for desktop background
* Make authentication work for the external connect-to-server dialog
* Fix leaks
* Redraw less in the list view when deleting
Major changes in 2.10.0 are:
* Some fixes for startup notification to avoid focus-stealing
* Center the file management prefs dialog
Major changes in 2.9.92 are:
* Avoid doing i/o to tree root nodes before they are used.
This means we don't get authentication callbacks.
* Correct handling of startup notification
* Fix crashers in desktop icon context menus when unmounting volumes
* Make property page for home icon on desktop show the right size
* Prevent the progress dialog from displaying strange ETAs
* Make backspace key open parent folder in list view
Major changes in 2.9.91 are:
* Fix some crashes
* Don't pop up mozilla dnd ask dialog under windows
* Change the look of the path button to make it easier to find
* Some changes to the look/text of the progress dialog
* Fix panel size detection on 64bit machines
* Allow open with menu on folders
Major changes in 2.9.90 are:
* Better window titles for browser windows
* Better icons for burn: & computer: in the ui
* Allow eject of unmounted devices
* Better handling of DnD from mozilla
* Make connect to server dialog available as separate app
* Use GtkAboutDialog
Major changes in 2.9.2 are:
* Use the new mime API
* Fixed bug in finding empty spots on the desktop
* Handle drags to special desktop icons (trash...)
* Fix crash in clipboard code
* Fix crash with non-unique volume filenames
* Better handling of sizes for image-file-as-icon
* Fill in ctrl-l dialog correctly for desktop
* Fix crash in bookmark dialog if parent window goes away
Major changes since 2.8.2 are:
* Bonobo not used for nautilus views
* GtkUIManager used for the ui, not BonoboUI
Major changes since 2.8.1 are:
* On mime mismatch, allow open with default app as open with
* On dnd of mozilla link, create desktop file with .desktop ending
* Delay activation when keyboard navigating in tree sidebar
* Add open new window menu item in browser mode
* Fix race condition that made up not alway select the folder
* Better error message when there is no handler for a file
* Fix throbber right-alignment with latest bonoboui
* Alt-up selects the directory you came from
* Display a frame on DnD hover if accepting
* Fix off-by-one bug in icon positioning on DnD
* Make creating new files in list view auto-rename
* Add the icon text to the DnD icon
* Add eject to volumes in free sidebar
* Don't close browser window when the showed path is unmounted
* Save browser window geometry
* Handle the new env vars for filesystem charset
Major changes since 2.8.0 are:
* Update to latest egg-recent
* Fix memory leaks
* Clear clipboard after a cut file is pasted
* Properly escape uris created by connect to server dialog
* Better alignment of icon labels
* Allow move (not copy) of a file to another filesystem
* Fix reordering of selection when a listview is resorted
* Allow keynav on desktop
* Fix crash in sort-by-emblems mode
* Performance fixes when selecting files
* Performance increase in folder load
* Allow pasting files as text
* Fix nautilus extensions such as file-roller menus
* Made select by pattern work in trash
* Fixed cut/paste of text when renaming in listview
* Always use homedir icon for homedir
Major changes since 2.7.92 are:
* Destroy metadata hashtable in right way, fixes crash
* Fix crash in list view when changing views
* Translation updates
Major changes since 2.7.4 are:
* Fix crash when transfer rate near zero
* Fix crash when renaming in list view and changing directory
* Fix double call of eel_preferences_remove_callback on shutdown
* Use default folder view from gconf instead of now broken gnome-vfs mime setting
* Some fixes to the handling of open with
* Faster way to get the group list for a user
* Don't make progress dialog on copy to desktop appear on all workspaces
* Fix sort by size in computer view
Major changes since 2.7.2 are:
* Fix remaining time reporting in progress dialog
* Nicer connect to server dialog
* Various bugfixes and memleak fixes
Major changes since 2.7.1 are:
* Added spatial/browser pref to the prefs dialog
* Use ctrl+q to add all windows
* On shift-double-click on a non-folder, close the window after.
* Bug fixes
* Show estimated time remaining in the progress dialog.
* per-window show hidden files setting
* Don't warn about mime-type mismatches if the handler is the same
for both mime-types.
* Date formatting improvements
* Killed start-here
* Changed to use the new mime spec and UI
Major changes since 2.6.2 are:
* Desktop file editior property page
* Display server name in window title for remote URIs
* Add setting to not show volumes on desktop
* Prevents read-only emblem from being shown on desktop icons
when user is in root group
* Fix dnd start coordinates when zoomed
* Start apps in the directory they are launched from
* Add close all windows to spatial window menu
Major changes since 2.6.1 are:
* Accessibility/keynav/theming fixes
* Leak fixes
* .desktop file updates
* Fixed help buttons in the preferences dialog
* Portability fix
* Use initial click position to anchor icon dnd
* Crash fix in the file properties dialog
* Don't overlap the close icon and text label when the sidepane
is very small.
Major changes since 2.6.0 are:
* Fix various crashes and leaks
* Use correct icon for filesystem in treeview
* Place unplaced windows over the parent window
* Fix non-ascii typeahead
* Faster property dialog for operations on many files
* Faster list view
* Fill open location dialog with initial path
* Add down arrow to location button
* Make shift close window behind in more places
* Allow smaller spatial windows
* Allow svg backgrounds
* Fix ignore kde trash directory hack
* By default set per-folder background in spatial mode
Major changes since 2.5.91 are:
* Translation updates
Major changes since 2.5.90 are:
* Handle failures when opening new window better (don't loop)
* visiting and accept modifiers were reversed in list view
* Build fixes
Major changes since 2.5.8 are:
* Beter typeahead in list view
* "browse" context menu item in more places
* Added go -> cd burner in browser mode
* Fallback to normal icon view if there is a problem launching another view
* Close windows on unmounted directories
* Fix crashes
* Longer delay until cancel open dialog opens
Major changes since 2.5.7 are:
* Fix crash
* Nicer names for toplevel uris
* Browse folder works in more places
* Added preference to always use browser windows
* Warn when sniffed/extension-matched mime type disagrees
* Show applications for both sniffed and extension-matched
mimetype in the open with menu
Major changes since 2.5.6 are:
* Fix icon lookup crash
* Fix property page crash
* Some a11y fixes
* Use new background capplet name
* Fix rename keyfocus issue
* Scroll to icon after rename
* Fix ogg previewing
* Some HIG rephrasing of strings
* Fix crash on rename of empty selection
* Update help userguide links
* Paste menu sensitivity fix
* Rename selection keynav now behaves better from the start
Major changes since 2.5.5 are:
* hig/ui tweaks
* ngettext support
* distribute nautilus-list-view-ui.xml
* New mimetype detection approach
* performance fixes
* non-modal open with other dialog
* Don't show small svgs as themseleves (always thumbnail)
* update egg-recent
Major changes since 2.5.4 are:
* Extension system for emblem, property page, menu item, and
list view column plugins.
* Editable list view columns
* Don't expand symlinks when following them.
* Busy cursor in loading spatial windows
* Icon-view style typeahead in the list view.
* Emblems in the list view
* Added a location button to spatial windows
* Removed tab icon nav from the icon view
* Add a context menu to the tree side pane.
* Pop up folder menu in list view background
* Turn on home icon on the desktop by default
* Added status bar info when no files are selected
* Got rid of unnecessary EelGenerousBin/EelInputEventBox usage
* HIG fixes
* Bugfixes
Major changes since 2.5.3 are:
* Use GtkIconTheme instead of GnomeIconTheme
* Show visited folders differently
* Better mouse/keynav in icon and list view
* Save window geometry on window close
* HIG message dialogs
* File templates support
Major changes since 2.5.2 are:
* Accessibility fixes
* Better initial size of navigation window
* Close all parents closes all parents
* Focus the next item after delete in list view
Major changes since 2.5.1.1 are:
* Don't do unnecessary i/o on remote locations
* handle broken symlinks that go unbroken
* various bug fixes
* some accessibility fixes
Major changes since 2.5.1 are:
* Fixed a NautilusFile leak
* DISABLE_DEPRECATED fixes.
Major changes since 2.5.0 are:
* Start of new volume handling system
* deprecaton clean
* fixed leaks
* performance fixes
Major changes since 2.4.0 are:
* Spatial / Navigational split
* Themed icon for desktop window
* Exif image properties
* Fixes for query-drags
* Don't allow renames to "" in list view
* Expand treeview rows on double click
* Change desktop grid size
* Don't disable deprecated API
* Pattern selection
* No incremental display of files
* Various bug fixes
Major changes since 2.3.90 are:
* don't migrate .gnome-desktop if it is a symlink
* Fix messed up home/trash icons for new users
* Handle xpm icons correctly in desktop files
* Handle non-utf8 user names
Major changes since 2.3.9 are:
* Fix warning on theme changes
* Sometimes the home and trash icons became blank and unusable
* Auto-hide KDE trash directory in desktop directory.
Major changes since 2.3.8 are:
* Fix history sidepane crash
* Add keynav rectangle selection
* Better error string for missing proxy hostnames
* Handle arrow keys on numerical keypad
Major changes since 2.3.7 are:
* Handle write protected gconf keys better
* Make "Write to CD" button higher priority
* Small bugfixes
Major changes since 2.3.6 are:
* Fixed zoom-to-fit in the zoom control.
* Selected files are colorized with the selection color.
* Doesn't create new windows when mounting CD-ROMS.
* Improved the gutter-on-the-right problem.
* Updates the disks menu when fstab changes
* Performance enhancements for icon layout.
* Added support for total size and total count for multi-file property dialogs.
* String fixes
* Added documentation on nautilus internals
* Various fixes
Major changes since 2.3.5 are:
* .hidden file support
* Improved context menus
* Speed improvements in the list and tree views
* Multi-rooted tree view
* Update emblems list after adding custom emblems
* Prefer existing windows from the command line in open-in-new-window
mode
Major changes since 2.3.4 are:
* Startup notification support when launching files.
* Selection fixes
* Crash fix in the properties dialog
* Icon theme changes in the tree view fixed
* gcc 3.3 build fixes
* Desktop icon bug fixes
* Panel transparency fix
Major changes since 2.3.3 are:
* Added a "text beside icons" pref to the icon view
* Use the authentication manager in the adapter component
* Bonobo context menus can supply an icon
* Zoom control uses stock widgets
* The property dialog can edit multiple files
* HIG-compliance improvements
Major changes since 2.3.2 are:
* Made the throbber themable using icon themes
(requires gnome-icon-theme 1.0.4)
* Get manager selection for desktop
* Fix some bugs in new desktop code
* fixed icon position for DnD in the listview
* Fixed spacing in dialogs to comply better with the HIG
* Use the authentication manager from libgnomeui instead
of our own.
* Fix keynav bug with space in listview
Major changes since 2.3.1 are:
* Disabled the limit on the number of files in a directory.
* Change desktop directory to ~/Desktop
* Major change to how desktop icons are handled
* Some accessibility fixes
Major changes since 2.2.3 are:
* Performance increases on directory loads.
* Integrate nautilus-cd-burner
* "Keep Aligned" mode on desktop
* Cygwin & AIX port
* Uses new gnome_vfs_show_url API to activate files
* Better bookmarks UI
* Change in how attributes are stored internally.
Major changes since 2.2.2 are:
* Lots of fixes to the list view keyboard and mouse handling
* Lots of fixes to the icon view keyboard and mouse handling
* Automatic notes emblem (requires gnome-icon-theme 1.0.2)
* Correctly scale icons in list view
* No more tearing when zooming the icon view
* Don't select the extension for rename in the list view
* Easier to trigger auto scrolling during drag and drop in the icon
view
* Much better thumbnail queue handling. Visible thumbnails are
prioritized.
* Scroll to previous position on directory reload
* Show volume and free space in the property dialog for directories
* Clean up by name doesn't leave icons outside the screen anymore
* Fix show backup/hidden files and some default view preferences
* Set the Nautilus application name used when grouping in the task
list.
* Converted NautilusFile to a GObject
* Make the thumbnail size prefs not affect external thumbnailers, as
it makes little sense for e.g. videos.
* Allow you to exit nautilus-file-management-properties
* Fix crash when droping from other app to Nautilus
* Use startup notification when launching Nautilus
* Don't save window geometry when maximized
* Added code to migrate Nautilus 1.0.x scripts
* Added some docs about keyboard and mouse navigation in nautilus views.
* Better accessibility support in the icon view
* Some other small bugfixes and polish
Major changes since 2.2.1 are:
* Going back/forwards scrolls to the position you left
* Better support for Gtk+ themes on the toolbar and location bar
* Disable the "switch to manual layout" dialog
* Ctrl-dragging on a selected file doesn't de-select it
* Save the current active side pane
* Now easier to hit icons, since you can also click on the transparent
parts.
* Select the directory name for renaming when creating a new directory
* Select the base name (not extension) when renaming a file
* List view smaller zoomlevel by default
* Text view has copy to clipboard functionallity
* Padding and alignment changes in the preferences dialog
* Performance enhancement for embedded text
* The delete key now works on the desktop
* Added back the "erase" emblem to the Backgrounds & emblems dialog
* Better accessibility support for the icon view
* Refresh listview when icon theme changes
* Correct font size when renaming and not 100% zoomed view
* Remove all usage of deprecated APIs
* Use monospace font in text view
* Added 1 gigabyte pref tor max thumbnailing size
* Handle floppies and cdroms mounted outside /mnt
* Fix duplicated entries in context menu.
* Don't session manage NautilusViews
* Multi-head fixes for the preference dialog
* Leak fixes
* Fix bonobo-activation forkbomb
Major changes since 2.2.0.2 are:
* Fix name collisions in trash
* fix image properties crash
* multihead fixes
* allow .svgz rendering
* correct icons dor zip disks
* fix button ordering for transfer error dialogs
* memory leaks fixed
* "slow context menu" fixed
* Fixed smb passwords getting "stuck".
Major changes since 2.2.0.1 are:
* Background crash fix
* Embedded text fix
Major changes since 2.2.0 are:
* NautilusView refcounting fix
* New translations
Major changes since 2.1.91 are:
* i18n fixes
* List view fixes
* Reverted the symlink change. Now resolves symlinks when following
them.
* Context menu corba usage fix
* Reload thumbnails when files changes
* Small fixes
Major changes since 2.1.6 are:
* No flicker on startup.
* Faster expose of the desktop
* Don't resolve symlinks when follow them
* Small bugfixes
Major changes since 2.1.6 are:
* Multihead fixes
* Fixed delete-in-rename-deletes-file bug
* UI review improvements
* Resolved the conflict between Edit and Empty Trash that was causing
the desktop to be badly stuck.
* Small bugfixes
Major changes since 2.1.5 are:
* Don't depend on libgnomecanvas
* Don't put icons under panel
* Use new icons for start-here
* Better window titles for e.g. fonts:///
* Handle thumbnail preferences
Major changes since 2.1.4 are:
* Handle icon theme changes better
* Query drag with middle button instead of right-click.
This allows faster context menus.
* Bugfixes
Major changes since 2.1.2 are:
* Remove unused code.
* Lots of smalll bugfixes.
* Make bonobo property pages regular controls instead of NautilusViews.
* Mimetype-sensitive context menu plugins
* Restructure the cut-and-paste code.
Major changes since 2.1.1 are:
* New preferences dialog and capplet.
* Pluggable file property pages.
* New Image properties page.
* Emblem sidebar work.
* Handle rootwindow drops.
* Background drag and drop changes
* The music view has been removed.
Major changes since 2.1.0 are:
* Multihead support
* Emblem sidebar
* Emblems handled with icon themes
* Uses new pango wrap mode in icon view
* Work on exterminating Nautilus themes
* Recent files support
Major changes since 2.0.7 are:
* Nautilus now uses the system icon theme.
* The sidebar tabs have been replaced with a new widget.
* The icon container uses the new eel canvas.
* UI cleanups.
* Various bugfixes.
Major changes since 2.0.6 are:
* Fixed the assertion failure on startup
* CD handling updates
Major changes since 2.0.5 are:
* Fixed volume handling bug with thrash that made it impossible
to unmount removable media while using fam.
Major changes since 2.0.4 are:
* Follow thumbnailing prefs for svgs too
* Correctly handle old non-utf8 trash and home links
* Fix the "icons stacked in top left corner" bug
* Various small bugfixes.
Major changes since 2.0.3 are:
* Don't show progress dialog for fast operations
* Mime handling fixes
* crux theme tweak
* small performance enhancements
* Various bugfixes.
Major changes since 2.0.2 are:
* Drag and drop has been implemented in the list view.
* Performance enhancements in the icon factory.
* Various bugfixes.
Major changes since 2.0.1 are:
* List view doesn't hang anymore.
* Reflect changes in the eel background api.
* Fix for crash when invoking "nautilus -q".
Major changes since 2.0.0 are:
* Various UI cleanups from the ui review
* Various bugfixes
* The Gnome Nautilus theme now follows the gtk+ theme better
* Window geometry is stored even in open-directories-in-same-window mode
* All executable bonobo components moved into libexec.
* Some performance improvements
* Accessibility fixes
* Add support for kernel supermount patch
* Read desktop file icons according to the icon theme specification
* New throbber for the gnome theme
* large version of trash icon
* Better handling of disk ejecting
* Proper handling of launching desktop files according to the spec
Major changes since 1.0.x are:
* Port to Gtk+ 2 and the Gnome 2 platform.
* Major performance improvements.
* Userlevels are removed.
* Lots of small UI changes in order to comply with the Gnome 2 Human
Interface Guidelines.
* Preferences dialog has been trimmed down.
* Anti-aliased mode has been removed. If you want anti-aliased text,
you need to use the Gtk+ 2 anti-aliased text mode.
* New emblems added to the default set of emblems.
* Support for editing vfolder menus using nautilus.
* Made most normal component in-process.
* Accessibility support.
* Drop support for public metadata.
* The news was sidebar disabled/removed
* Image view component removed, we now use Eye of Gnome.
* Bugfixes
Minor new features:
* Drop-shadow for text on the desktop
* Alt-drag image and pick set-as-background
* New progress dialog window-icon shows progress visually.
* You can use Alt-left/right/up/down to navigate the icon view using
the keyboard.
* Ability to easily create launchers on the desktop.