Nautilus Elementary adds Toolbar Editor; fulfils bug opened in 2001

By , Published May 31, 2010

Nautilus-Elementary – the simplified and gorgeous file-browser that is fast turning heads everywhere – will soon be adding a new feature that users the world over have been asking GNOME developers to include by default since 2001: A toolbar editor for Nautilus.


As ever, the Nautilus-Elementary team seizing the initiative have, in less than 2 days, fulfilled a long-time need for a large swath of every-day users who’ve been itching to trim cruft from the excessively icon-ized stock Nautilus window.
The screenshot below is of Nautilus-Elementary’s new toolbar editor but as the editor is still being tested, tweaked and awesome-ized it won’t land in the Nautilus-Elementary PPA for a little while yet. 

If the toolbar editor looks familiar it’s because it’s adapted from Enrico Tröger’s awesome work on Midori’s toolbar editor.

Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • Anonymous

    nautilus elementary is so fantastic…

    and their dev team is really dedicated. really respect you guys. thanks for the constant stream of greatness. keep up the good work.

  • Bob Hazard

    Not using the new beta Ambiance yet? Is disappoint.

    The places menu looks much tidier, they have been arguing over that on bugzilla for years

  • http://pinguy.infogami.com/ Pinguy

    This is awesome news. I love Nautilus-Elementary its so much nicer looking then Nautilus and they are always innovating the file manger with thing like integrating Zeitgeist and coverflow (what ever happened to coverflow?? I really liked it when I was using 9.10).

    This is great for me too, I really miss not having the “Open Parent” since I have been using Nautilus-Elementary.

  • John

    Before you are so quick to crap on the core nautilus devs, I suspect that Nautilus Elementary just integrated the toolbar editor branch that has been developed (recently) by cosimo, a core nautilus dev.

    Credit where credit is due guys.

    http://github.com/cosimoc/nautilus/tree/toolbareditor

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

      wrong, the toolbar editor come from Midori code.

      Credit where credit is due guys…

    • Anonymous

      LOL, you got owned!

      • Bob Hazard

        Nerdfight!

  • http://pinguy.infogami.com/ Pinguy

    I really do think that Nautilus-Elementary, Elementary-Desktop, CoverGloobus, Gloobus, Gloobus-Coverflow (Clutter), Gnome Do, Docky, and Zeitgeist teams should get together and build a new desktop system that would rival KDE and Gnome.Get someone like DanRabbit on the team to do the artwork/design and you are sure to have a winner on your hands.

    • Anonymous

      Well of course the elementary project is all one bunch ;) And this is a project I started. Cover/Gloobus/Flow is all one bunch. and Gnome-Do and Docky have some common developers.

      The guy who did GloobusFlow is the guy who works on Nautilus elementary. I worked with the guy who did Gloobus Preview to polish it up a little bit (and we’re still working on it). And I’m also fairly active on Docky. Not to mention, we’re all friendly with Zeitgeist gang ;) So, in a way we kind of are all working together.

      Are we going to bust out a new DE to compete with GNOME and KDE?? psh.. if we get enough developers I’m game :D

      • http://pinguy.infogami.com/ Pinguy

        Have you ever thought about doing something new with the thumb-nailing system in Nautilus-Elementary? We live in an age where nearly everyone has the internet so most of the thumbs imo should be downloaded instead of being generated.

        Their are programs out there that can do this like Cover thumbnailer, imdb-thumbnailer and CoverChooser, but CoverChooser isn’t automated.

        • Anonymous

          yea, we were just talking about that today :p

          Haven’t come to any conclusions yet. But it is an idea.

          • http://pinguy.infogami.com/ Pinguy

            I got to ask while you are online, why did you change the look of the Trash/Bin icon in elementary-icons. I thought the older one (the clear looking one) looked much better then the new gray one, it seems out of place now on docky.

          • Anonymous

            heh, well the old one just didn’t fit in with the set at all. Completely different drawing style, different materials, etc etc.

            The new trash can is perfectly on style, uses the same materials as some of the other icons, and it lends itself better to be used in monochrome format (which may happen in the future).

  • John

    Sorry, my mistake. I couldn’t see the acknowledgement anywhere.

    Does this mean you will be working with upstream again?

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

      I never worked with upstream, we have different visions. If they are interested by some nautilus-elementary patch they can find us on irc freenode #elementary.

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

    d0od if u can add the acknowlegement for the original author of the toolbar editor pls.
    acknolegement to Enrico Tröger author of the Midori toolbar editor extension.

    I just adapted his code to nautilus-elementary.

    • http://erigami.myopenid.com/ erigami

      “freakin’ rockstar” and a gentleman. =)

  • Dusten B.

    If anyone is to get things done, it’s the Nautilus-Elementary team.

  • Animeshmeher

    @Pinguy Guess what, your wish is fullfiled :). The entire group is co-ordinating together.
    And you might soon see some magic :).

  • sonay

    I really love what elemantary team is doing, but come on move on to kde, it has all the things you wish. gnome is very conservative.

    • http://www.Lathund.nu Hund

      Imho, KDE is bloat and slow.

      • http://twitter.com/dummyxl dummyxl

        and buggy… I did go back to gnome today and loving the desktop again,… still love dolphin. but elementary is good to.

  • Anonymous

    meh, im not a fan of the elementary branch of nautilus because it doesn’t look like it has the features that power users need.

    • Anonymous

      Can you be a little more specific? We’re open to suggestions ;)

      • Anonymous

        I use Nautilus Elementary and don’t care what the other Nautilus guys have to do. I believe that you can make whatever changes you wish to your branch.

        So, my problem with Nautilus Elementary, I have a window opened, I copy a location entry from somewhere (usually from the terminal) and pressed Ctrl+L followed by Ctrl+V and ENTER to get to the location. I would really love the pencil icon so that I don’t have to do a mouse and keyboard combo to do that. The pencil icon was really helpful. Any chances of getting it back? Maybe not by default, but an option to add it to the toolbar with the help of toolbar editor would be nice.

  • Anonymous

    Just want to say FWIW that the Nautilus elementary “team” consists of one guy (ammonkey) who is a freakin’ rockstar. Major major props to this guy.

  • http://twitter.com/g0rillaindamist james browne

    kick@ss…. there is no other word for it!

  • Anonymous

    Wow great. I always needed the “UP” button and couldn’t figure out.. I hope now I will be able to add it…

    • Anonymous

      Yes, you can add the up button ;)

  • daas88

    Back when we didn’t have nautilus elementary it would have been much more useful, but N-E is so awesome and well designed that it doesn’t need tweaking :P

  • David Ecs

    This, sadly, make me wonder about the high ineptitude of the nautilus and gnome team.

    Congrats to DanRabbit and the Nautilus-Elementary Team!

  • Anonymous

    Elementary Nautilus is the way to go!

  • Pt

    This guys has done more progressive work than the whole Gnome Nautilius team, which move (..copy) at snails pace.

    With organisations like Gnome open source will never make ways into the desktop market

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/R25APX2NWD4262MDEYS2BWWEZU Mikolaj

    That looks very nice, but does it allow to add custom buttons with a command tied to it?

  • Anonymous

    this is why i love open source “seizing the initiative”

  • GhostDog

    really really great. Nautilus elementary is a very welcome addition. Don’t like the standard-nautilus at all…

  • http://twitter.com/K9ru K-9

    @danrabbit @ammonkey
    Are you guys going to send the patch upstream? The GNOME devs recently decided to make Nautilus look pretty much the same as you did, so they might like your work. And if you still remember, I’ll be back to coding Dash in mid June

  • Kjelenek

    Can you explain what is a difference in visions between elementary team and upstream.
    I don`t get it. I have thought that every developer wish is that his project is recognised and accepted up stream.
    Your answer is confusing me.
    You will work with them or give them patch if they call you but you want call them ???
    Is this about ego or something else ?

    • Anonymous

      Ah, no you are confused :p Many of the functionalities in Nautilus elementary are built on top of patches that have been sitting in the GNOME bugzilla. Some of them are over 5 years old. The Zoom Slider, RGBA, all in one toolbar, etc etc. I mean, they’ve been rewritten, but they are based on old rejected code. Some things like the combined stop and reload button are from Marcus Carlson’s work on Nautilus, which I believe he is working with upstream now (or was). So, its not that the majority of the code isn’t waiting for upstream approval.

      In fact, many of the functionalities in Nautilus elementary were filed as bugs as rejected as something upstream would not want to do. It wasn’t until recently that their UI roadmap came into line with what we’ve already demonstrated.

      So, no its not about ego or anything like that. Nautilus elementary is about getting out there and putting these good ideas into practice.

      Just this morning I received a couple of emails regarding getting these changes back upstream. Hopefully they will be fully receptive of the changes we’ve made. But, you can be sure that this project will not die until every last change makes it in. We will not compromise on creating the best browsing experience we possibly can.

  • Guest

    Can you explain what is a difference in visions between elementary team and upstream.
    I don`t get it. I have thought that every developer wish is that his project is recognised and accepted up stream.
    Your answer is confusing me.
    You will work with them or give them patch if they call you but you want call them ???
    Is this about ego or something else ?

  • Guest

    Can you explain what is a difference in visions between elementary team and upstream.
    I don`t get it. I have thought that every developer wish is that his project is recognised and accepted up stream.
    Your answer is confusing me.
    You will work with them or give them patch if they call you but you want call them ???
    Is this about ego or something else ?

  • Guest

    Thank you very much on taking the time to answer me. And clearing things up.
    I have only recently found what up stream means :D So you can see that i don`t understand this developer things as i should.

    And you gave me answer that i was hoping to hear ;)
    I really love your work and wish you and the team that succeed in objectives that you chosen for your self`s.

    P.S
    Sorry for double posting i was getting some kind of error while i was trying to submit post ….
    I hope it won`t occur again :D

    P.S.S
    It did occur again. Every time i am trying to post a replay my old post is published again instead off things that i have written in the box for replay. I did write error report e-mail first time it happened. This is may last try….

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZRSN2FSNU2GM56XCRP7TIG6W3U Peter Robev

    To start with, awsome job guys! Just installed it, since the upstream nautilus was really giving me hard time with a bug.

    Just a quick question. In the upstream Nautilus I sued to edit the /usr/share/nautilus/ui/nautilus-navigation-window-ui.xml to add New Folder button, that seems to be the only one that I’d miss?

    There are a couple of nautilus-actions buttons that I’d miss as well.