Nautilus File Manager

Nautilus is the official file manager for the GNOME desktop. It is designed to be primarly a file manager,
but there are support for web and file viewing too. These pages are meant to help you find information about Nautilus

Maintainers

Alexander Larsson, Dave Camp and Darin Adler

Nautilus Information

External Resources

Mailing list and IRC

The Nautilus mailing list is nautilus-list@gnome.org. This list is meant for both users and developers. Archives and subscription information are available here.

You can also visit #nautilus on irc.gimp.net.

Bugzilla

Nautilus bugs are kept on the GNOME bug tracker.

Downloads

Nautilus should come bundled with your distribution. To download the latest version of the source code, go to the GNOME ftp server.

Make sure to get latest release of eel, the extra library that Nautilus depends on.

Developer Documentation

An overview of the Nautilus architecture and internals is available here (PDF).

nautilus-io.txt, available in nautilus/docs/, describes Nautilus' IO model.

Scripting

Nautilus supports scripts for quickly adding extra functionality. Many users have already taken advantage of this to create lots of nice scripts. You find these scripts on the G-Scripts page on Sourceforge.

Icon Themes

As of GNOME 2.2, Nautilus uses the system icon theme for folders and files. You can find GNOME icon themes on art.gnome.org.

Apotheke - A CVS view for Nautilus

There is a very nice CVS view available for Nautilus created by Jens Finke. You find more information about it at apotheke.berlios.de.