http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/6167/
- SVN integration has been waved at. I find it a cool idea, even if only as a plugin.
- Speaking of plugins... those also need some love. How many plugins are there for Nautilus? Most users don't even know Nautilus can be enhanced.
- File tooltips - once again, take example on Konqueror / Windows explorer.

Edit: A few more ideas around Brainstorm:
- Separation of files and folders
- Slider bar for zoom
- A better icon management
- The ability to explode folders

Those are just a handful of ideas. My main concern is Nautilus is being underdeveloped, and the solid alternative is only non-Gnome (Konqueror).


[Edit]
Two of those ideas implemented since then:
- Tabbed browsing
- Remote connection fix

If you liked this idea, check out my other ideas.

[302 votes] Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #6167


]]> en-us Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:46:44 +0000 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:21:38 +0000 QAPoll module http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/6167/ Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:53:07 +0000 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:57:36 +0000
Tabbed browsing is a missing feature of Nautilus, I hate to have 12 windows opened at the same time. And I don't even talk about the SVN feature where no software beats TortoiseSVN on Windows. It would be nice to have a plugin for that...]]> Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:26:35 +0000
Sorry, Nautilus is no way a light file manager, look at Thuanr or PCManFM and you will see what I mean.

About plugins, there are Nautilus Scripts.
http://g-scripts.sourceforge.net/]]> Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:04:24 +0000 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:12:15 +0000
just before s.o. asks.]]> Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:17:13 +0000 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:43:36 +0000 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:09:33 +0000 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:23:17 +0000 i believe in spacial mode nautilus !:x]]> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:18:24 +0000
How about a plugins webpage such as the plugins page for Firefox so you can navigate from a link in the plugins window and download and install plugins from there?]]> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:49:31 +0000 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:42:53 +0000 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:42:14 +0000 There already is a SVN plugin.

Explode folders?? no. Maybe with compiz]]> Fri, 16 May 2008 16:36:56 +0000 Sun, 18 May 2008 12:16:18 +0000 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 04:25:26 +0000 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:08:07 +0000
Its pretty primitive and quite klunky when youve just migrated from Windows. It sometimes feels like it has less features than filemon.exe had in windows 3.11 :(]]> Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:49:56 +0000
It also offers no nice way of copying files from one place to another. Unless i just can't get it to work.
Like, for instance, emelFM or emelFM2

You can get a tree view panel on the side.
But that is not as useful as it could be.
If i configure it to show files as well, and want to drag a file from its location to another folder as shown in the tree view, as soon as I click on the file (in the tree view) i just get an error pop up:

"could not display
The location is not a folder"

I know it is not a folder damn it!! I just wanted to drag it to a folder!

There should be the simple multi-pane functionality as emelFM provides. That would be wonderful.

And this tree pane thing should be fixed.

Tabs would be nice. But not necessary. Better to keep it smaller and faster, and less klunky.

]]> Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:17:56 +0000 the copying functionality. At the moment, you can't schedule something to copy synchronously or asynchronously.
Say I want to copy some random files to another location, and these files dont' exist in the same directory. So I can't select them all at once.

I select them one by one, and copy them to the new location.
Assuming they are large enough to take minutes to copy, and I start the second one before the first one finishes, the disk starts jumping all over the place because it tries to copy both files at the same time.
It would be better to be able to create a sort of a task list, so that these tasks can be run only after others have completed. ]]> Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:21:38 +0000