Editing GNOME Files (section)

==Features==
[[File:GNOME Files 40 (released in 2021-03).png|thumb|GNOME Files 40 (released in 2021-03)]]
Bookmarks, window backgrounds, <!-- emblems, <ref>{{cite web | url=https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665735 | access-date=2013-04-10}}</ref> --> notes, and add-on scripts are all implemented, and the user has the choice between icon, list, or compact list views. In browser mode, Nautilus keeps a history of visited folders, similar to web browsers, permitting quick revisiting of folders.

Nautilus can display previews of files in their icons, be they text files, images, sound or video files via thumbnailers such as [[Totem (software)|Totem]]. Audio files are previewed (played back over [[GStreamer]]) when the [[Pointer (graphical user interfaces)|pointer]] is hovering over them.

In earlier versions, Nautilus included original [[Vector graphics|vectorized]] icons designed by [[Susan Kare]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.gnome.org/projects/nautilus/about.html | title=Nautilus' contributors | year=2004 | publisher=GNOME | access-date=2007-10-31}}</ref>

===File system abstraction===
[[File:GNOME Files v3.34 (2019-10) -- Other Locations.png|thumb|GNOME Files provides a special page for managing storage devices.]]

GNOME Files relies on a file system [[abstraction layer]] (provided by [[GVfs]]) to browse local and remote file systems, including but not limited to [[File Transfer Protocol|FTP]] sites, Windows [[Server Message Block|SMB]] shares, [[OBject EXchange|OBEX]] protocol (often implemented on cellphones), [[files transferred over shell protocol]], [[HTTP]] and [[WebDAV]] and [[SSH file transfer protocol|SFTP]] servers.

Using the [[GIO (software)|GIO library]], Nautilus tracks modification of local files in real time, eliminating the need to refresh the display. GIO internally supports Gamin and [[File alteration monitor|FAM]], Linux's [[inotify]] and [[Solaris (operating system)|Solaris]]' File Events Notification system.

===File indexing and file search framework===
GNOME Files relies on [[Tracker (search software)|Tracker]] (formerly named "MetaTracker") to index files and is hence able to provide fast file search results.

===Batch renaming===
[[Batch renaming]] was introduced with GNOME Files version 3.22 (2016).<ref name="322omgu">{{Cite web|url=https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/08/quick-look-new-features-nautilus-3-22|title=Nautilus 3.22 Adds Batch File Renaming, Native Compression Features|date=August 31, 2016|website=OMG! Ubuntu!}}</ref>

===Archive handling===
GNOME Files version 3.22 adds native, integrated file compression and decompression. By default, handling of archive files (e.g. [[Tar (file format)|.tar]][[gzip|.gz]]) was handed off to [[File Roller]] (or another tool). Users now benefit from a progress bar, undo support, and an archive creation wizard.

The new ''"extract on open"'' behavior, which automatically extracts an archive file by double clicking it, can be disabled in the preferences.<ref name="322omgu" />

===MIME types===
[[MIME type]]s (also called "media type" or "content type") are standardized by the [[Internet Assigned Numbers Authority|IANA]], then the [[freedesktop.org]] project takes care that the implementation works across all free software desktops. <code>shared-mime-info</code> is the provided library.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/shared-mime-info/|title=shared-mime-info|website=freedesktop.org}}</ref> At this time, at least GNOME, KDE, [[Xfce]] and ROX use this database.{{cn|date=November 2017}}