Nautilus Update
by Maciej Stachowiak
screenshots by Richard Hestilow
There's now a web site nautilus.eazel.com, but it doesn't have much
useful content yet.
Here are some of the nautilus development highlights for the past
week:
* New tab UI for the index panel area.
http://nautilus.eazel.com/screenshots/feb-18-2000/tab.jpg
* The new `Notes' meta view allows you to add your own annotations to
anything that can be viewed with Nautilus.
http://nautilus.eazel.com/screenshots/feb-18-2000/notes.jpg
* The back and forward buttons now have right-click menus showing the
history. The UI for this still needs work to improve discoverability.
* Zoom level now stays the same while you navigate directories.
* Individual icons in a directory can now be resized by selecting
`Stretch Icon' from the right-click menu in the icon
view.
http://nautilus.eazel.com/screenshots/feb-18-2000/stretch.jpg
* Many bug fixes, infrastructure changes, and minor UI tweaks.
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Where can I get Nautilus? I know it's beta, but I'm hearing so much about it
i'd like to try it. Thanks.
-Brandon
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Brandon Dorman <brandond@lightspeed.net> writes:
> Where can I get Nautilus? I know it's beta, but I'm hearing so much about it
> i'd like to try it. Thanks.
It's not in Beta. It's not even alpha. It's not even pre-alpha. It's
not even a demo yet. Right now the only way to get it is to check out
the source code and compile it yourself.
- Maciej
Nautilus Update 29 Feb 2000
by Maciej Stachowiak
screenshots by Richard Hesitlow
Everyone's probably heard some of the publicity about Eazel by now. Us
Eazel folks and the rest of the Nautilus team have been undistracted
by the press flurry and are hacking harder than ever. We're hoping to
be able to do a nice demo at GUADEC. In the meantime, here are some of
the changes since the last summary, and of course, screenshots.
* Revised the index tab UI - changed shape and color, and made them
pre-light.
http://nautilus.eazel.com/screenshots/feb-28-2000/newtab.jpg
* Revised the notes UI a bit - made the text box bigger, and light
yellow.
http://nautilus.eazel.com/screenshots/feb-28-2000/notes.jpg
* Added a delete item to the right-click menu, and soon after a
confirm dialog after a unfortunate filesystem accident.
http://nautilus.eazel.com/screenshots/feb-28-2000/delete-dlg.jpg
* Improved error messages when files can't be displayed.
* Added View a Text as an option for HTML pages. But html viewing is
kind of broken in general right now, so we can't screenshot this.
* If you install EOG, nautilus can now view nearly any kind of image
file in place. Right now the behavior with respect to scaling is a bit
off; we're working on
that.
http://nautilus.eazel.com/screenshots/feb-28-2000/eog.jpg
* Implemented the Nautilus::ViewWindow Bonobo object and defined but
did not yet implement Nautilus::Application. These will be useful
later for remote control or scripting of Nautilus.
* When you have multiple items selected, the right-click menu will now
apply to all the items and will, for instance, say "Open in (n) new
windows" where (n) is the number of items, and will open the
appropriate number of
windows.
http://nautilus.eazel.com/screenshots/feb-28-2000/selections.jpg
* Added icon themability. Now you can choose from the Eazel icon
theme, done by Susan Kare, or classic gnome-style icons.
http://nautilus.eazel.com/screenshots/feb-28-2000/eazel.jpg
* The start of a text file is now shown inside the icon at higher zoom
levels. This only works with the Eazel icon theme for
now.
http://nautilus.eazel.com/screenshots/feb-28-2000/text.jpg
* Added gnome-look icons at many different sizes, thanks to Kenneth
Christiansen who did a beautiful job on them. The icons look much
nicer now at higher zoom levels.
http://nautilus.eazel.com/screenshots/feb-28-2000/zoom.jpg
* Building should not require munging with gnome.m4 any more.
* Improved the status string shown when items are selected - Nautilus
now shows the number of selected directories, with a count of the
items the directories contain, and the number of other items selected,
with total size of these items.
* As usual, numerous internal reorganizations and bug fixes.