GNOME Files
GNOME Files, formerly known as Nautilus, is the official file manager for the GNOME desktop, giving the user a simple way to navigate and manage its files.
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
- Privacy focused
- Support for Themes
Features
- Favorites
- Tabbed interface
- Thumbnails
- Dark Mode
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Works Offline
- No Tracking
- Ad-free
- No registration required
- Built-in viewer
- Batch Rename Files
- Bookmarks
- Support for FTP
- Gtk
GNOME Files News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
gwrvan-barre added GNOME Files as alternative to FolderFresh
npn99f8hmj added GNOME Files as alternative to Synapse file manager- braky added Gtk as a feature to GNOME Files
POX added GNOME Files as alternative to Bloom File Manager- Bobby_Reggine liked GNOME Files
POX added GNOME Files as alternative to Dora
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What is GNOME Files?
GNOME Files, formerly known as Nautilus, is the official file manager for the GNOME desktop, giving the user a simple way to navigate and manage its files.
Bookmarks, window backgrounds, notes, and add-on scripts are all implemented, and the user has the choice between icon, list, or compact list views. In browser mode, Files keeps a history of visited folders, similar to web browsers, permitting quick revisiting of folders.
Files can display previews of files in their icons, be they text files, images, sound or video files via thumbnailers such as Totem. Audio files are previewed (played back over GStreamer) when the pointer is hovering over them.
GNOME Files information
Developed by
The GNOME Project Licensing
Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.Alternatives
62 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
It's uncluttered and easy to use, like most GNOME software. The search function works well, it has tabs, and supports network storage nicely.
As a consequence of being simple, it doesn't have as many features and options as other file managers, but that's a personal choice for you to make. I like Gnome Files for daily use and use the terminal if I need something very specific.
The devs removed the tree view and overall reduced the functionality. If you are not an old mom with a touch-device Nautilus surely in not your choice.
Admitted: Nautilus was ok 5 years ago.
It's not as expandable as Dolphin, for eg. but does his job kinda well. UI/UX are well integrated to GNOME.
The Detailed Type isn't a replacement because it will render all new formats as binary.
Advanced users can install new MIME types as workaround with xdg-mime from
xdg-utils but this can be a real problem if new file formats are mostly private or proprietary or doesn't have MIME yet.
AppleTalk afp:// File Transfer Protocol ftp:// or ftps:// Network File System nfs:// Samba smb:// SSH File Transfer Protocol sftp:// or ssh:// WebDAV dav:// or davs://
GNOME nautilus 42.1.1 can open files with one key now: Enter by default.
Useless without a directory tree view.
"Allow folders to be expanded" is disabled by default.