History
Nautilus was first released in 2001 and development has continued ever since. The following is a brief timeline of its development history:
- Version 1.0 was released on March 13, 2001, and incorporated into GNOME 1.4.
- Version 2.0 was a port to GTK+ 2.0.
- Version 2.2 included 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" folder) to be compliant with freedesktop.org standards. - In the version included with GNOME 2.6, Nautilus switched to a spatial interface. The "classic" interface is still available by a filing cabinet shaped icon, by an option in the "Edit -> Preferences -> Behavior" menu in Nautilus, in a folder's context menu, and by using the "--browser" switch when started by a command via a launcher or shell. Several Linux distributions have made "browser" mode the default.
- GNOME 2.14 introduced a version of Nautilus with improved searching, integrated optional Beagle support and the ability to save searches as virtual folders.
- With the release of GNOME 2.22, Nautilus was ported to the newly introduced GVFS, the replacement virtual file system for the aging GnomeVFS.
- The 2.24 stable release of Nautilus adds some new features, mainly tabbed browsing and better tab completion.
- With GNOME 2.30, Nautilus reverted from a spatial interface to a browser navigational model by default.
- The 2.32 release introduced a dialog for handling conflicts when performing copy or move operation, transparency icon effect when cutting files into folder and enhanced the Wastebucket with Restore files. Besides, this is the last version that is based on GTK2 before the move to GNOME 3.0 with GTK3.
- GNOME 3.0 completely revamped the UX of Nautilus with focus on neat and elegant element like the sidebar and icons. Additionally, the Connect to Server dialog is also enhanced. Nautilus was ported to GTK3.
- Version 3.4 added Undo functionality.
- Version 3.6 introduced a revamp UX design, symbolic sidebar icon, new search feature, removal of many features such as setting window background, emblems, split pane mode, spatial mode. Nautilus application name was renamed to Files. With such major changes brought many criticisms from various vendors such as Linux Mint decided to fork version 3.2
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