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Nautilus 1.0.3 Released

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May 9, 2001

Darin Adler writes:

A new release of the Nautilus graphical shell and file manager
is available. There have been tons of improvements since Nautilus
1.0.2 was released.

Some of the new features since Nautilus 1.0.2:

don’t allow desktop icons to be under the Panel
cut, copy, and paste for moving or copying files (a la
Windows)
notice changes to files made outside Nautilus using the FAM
library if it’s present
icon in title of Notes sidebar panel if the location has
notes
Scripts menu to make it easy to run selected scripts on any
file; a new way to extend Nautilus
a News sidebar panel that displays headlines from web sites
that use the RSS format

tree view is faster, and also doesn’t run at all unless it’s
opened, so it doesn’t slow things down when you don’t use it
improved rubber-banding speed (in smooth mode)
other small speed improvements
faster JPEG thumbnailing (contributed by Alexander
Larsson)

~/.gnome-desktop directory is now used for the desktop instead
of ~/.nautilus/desktop. This change and others, done by Miguel,
were in the Nautilus from Ximian’s GNOME 1.4 packages, and his
changes are now integrated into Nautilus 1.0.3.
more icons and descriptions for more types of removable
media
xalf support in code that launches new programs; since there
are still many small problems with xalf, this is only on if you set
up a NAUTILUS_USE_XALF environment variable
added a “–no-desktop” option for the command line that makes
desktop-related preferences disappear and prevents Nautilus from
trying to manage the desktop — good for running under KDE

Preferences menu now named “Preferences” instead of icon
preference to turn emacs keybindings on (for location field in
the location bar, and elsewhere)
improved preferences for font and font size
global view preferences, including global default zoom
level
preference to always sort folders first
preference to add a “Delete” command that bypasses the
trash
icon caption setting moved into Preferences dialog
Nautilus Themes setting moved into Preferences dialog
support for HTTP proxies that require a user name and
password
preference for maximum image size for thumbnailing (and upped
default from 1 MB to 3 MB)
preference for experts who want to use their home directory for
the desktop

add F2 keybinding for Rename, Delete for Move To Trash, and
Shift-Delete for Delete (bypassing trash) if it’s enabled
add “View as” items to menu bar
put ellipses (“…”) in the middle of file names, not the start
(or end)
made copy progress dialog hang around for a second even if the
copy is faster than 1 second
list menu emblem column has a title and is after the file name
column
select folder or file you came from when you do Up command
sort tree view more like how we sort other views
draw tree view icons smoothly when smooth mode is on
less flicker in tree view display
add a way to go to a specific location even when the location
bar is hidden that doubles as a way to set the keyboard focus to
the location in the location bar
improved look of help on sidebar by using icons instead of
using slanted text
new implementation of audio preview that is faster and
better
improved Open command, including a keyboard shortcut for the
Open in New Window command
show target path in properties window for symlinks
updated dragging code to use the same kind of slightly broken
URLs that gmc produces, which makes it compatible with programs
that previously worked with gmc and not Nautilus
handle drags of URLs onto the desktop by making Nautilus
links