Nautilus-Elementary: Where’s it going? To Awesome-ville, that’s where.

By , Published March 6, 2010

Further to our in-depth look at the Future of Nautilus a week back, the Nautilus-Elementary team €“ who we cited heavily in that previous article €“ have posted their own plans for the unkempt file-manager.

Whilst most of their plans were discussed in our previous article, there was one very juicy gem attached €“ a working prototype of Nautilus AND Zeitgeist integration.

See their video below and prepares to want.

As soon as the guys have it ready for testing you'll be the first to hear!

Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • askell

    why not fork nautilus elementary into a separate project??

  • Anonymous

    it’s in bzr right now. But you need to build a special branch of zeitgeist fs in order to make it work ;)

  • Aaron

    I like the same nautilus thats in karamic. But all I just want is the eLEMENTARY theme and the Breadcrums

  • Anonymous

    looks like a recent document list basically. I despise recent document lists. I know where all of my files are if I need to access them again thank you.

    • Anonymous

      there’s more than just recent documents (and files in general). There’s commonly used files. And some people live out of their recent documents, This should be a richer experience.

      Also, the Zeitgeist guys are working on some awesome logic that will display files that are typically accessed together: complimentary files. Imagine that you have a context pane in Nautilus that when you select your dissertation, it shows the resource material that you typically access while you’re working on it.

      So really what this is about is a computer that is like your best friend. It knows that you like Jam on your pancakes, you like a newspaper with you coffee, and you pick the kids up at 3:00 so that’s a good time to go ahead and index your files.

      • Anonymous

        eh, I guess I’m just a manual-control kind of guy. I don’t like my computer deciding for me what files are relevant to what other files. I just organize my stuff properly to begin with ;)

        • Anonymous

          Except instead of just a list of what you opened recently, it keeps track of what you open all of the time. Like, I’m in school. So my thesis outline and rough draft would show up, because i open them every time i’m on my computer. Less accessed documents are just as readily available.

          • Anonymous

            I’m not saying it’s not useful to some folks, I just personally find things like that really annoying. The only recent documents lists that I like are the “recently opened” ones in programs themselves. It’s just one of my pet peeves, lol.

          • Anonymous

            That’s awesome, until a user relies on this decides to work on their thesis at home. Where do they find their thesis if it’s 2am and Zeitgeist expects them to be playing games?

            It’s a good idea, but that kind of modality has weird failure cases. It seems a lot like the Windows XP behaviour where menus would rearrange themselves based on gestures you commonly use.

          • Anonymous

            uh, what? zeitgeist doesn’t move your files anywhere. In case you didn’t notice, all standard file navigation is still present in the mockup. the zeitgeist is the bottom option on the list, aka not the primary way. files can still be found in their normal file heirarchy.

            and I wouldn’t be surprised to see eventually zeitgeist tie ins with Ubuntu One or dropbox, so that file access can be synced.

    • Brian

      What Dan said! I’m pretty stoked about having more Journal functionality in Nautilus! I’m hoping that more merging will occur!

  • Kurtins

    That’s great, this is the first thing that makes me want to install zeitgeist. Any news about the redesign of nautilus sidebar?

  • Igor

    Pretty soon nautilus elementary will become the default file manager of lots of distros

    • Anonymous

      it was very good !!
      nautilus elementary@elementary theme FTW !!

    • Anonymous

      yeah, once its a bit more polished and stable, and has a little bit better theme integration, i agree. I like it a lot, thats for sure.

      • Anonymous

        Can you define what you mean by “theme integration” It should work just fine with any old theme :)

        • Anonymous

          does it? even better! i tried it early on and something was wonky about it, i honestly can’t remember of the top of my head. perhaps it might have even been the modded version with the altered navigation that i had trouble with.

  • http://ammonkey.posterous.com/ ammonkey

    all the credit goes to the wonderful zeitgeist team who work hard on this. And to Ian Cylkowski aka Izo for his sweat mockup with the idea of the zeitgeist integration in nautilus. We just implemented their patch which i think bring nautilus to a next lvl.

  • kaysar

    i don’t see anything special here

    • Anonymous

      Its the zeitgeist integration.

      • kaysar

        i would say yay for zeitgeist integration but as a regular user and as a beginner i wouldn’t notice
        what zeitgeist integration is

        i hope its getting better and getting more beautiful and unique

        • http://twitter.com/gebagu Grigori

          well, a regular user shouldn’t need to know what zeitgeist is. but this actually is a tech-demo and has nothing to do with looks. but the ultimate telos of making this work definitly has usability in mind.

          in short: right now, zeitgeist, which is a thing that track your usage of documents, is only being used by a second program, called activities-journal which let’s you see your documents on a timeline. this project is the attempt to integrate those functions in your standard file-browser nautilus. which seems trivial, but will certainly alleviate accessibility.

    • Anonymous

      It depends on how long you have been using Linux for. I remember using Linux 10 years ago and it was bloody awful. Compare it today you can really appreciate how far things have developed. You might have used Linux back then, but these things are being designed with the user in mind these days which is a bonus.

  • Anonymous

    anything special here ( video )….

    but elementary theme,Nautilus mod $.. – is greatz !!

  • Anonymous

    I want it!

  • Anonymous

    Excellent. Ubuntu just gets better and better. No point comparing Ubuntu to Windows, because we all know what is better.

  • pt

    Hopefully there is an option to right click on the file and open the folder where it resides in. This let you quickly get to the project area so quickly.

  • Anonymous

    You can use Nautilus Elementary to simulate WinSCP in Ubuntu.Steps to install Nautilus elementary in your Ubuntu system
    Here