The tree view is undead, long live the column view‽

As the title, this is a spin-off of my last post in which I’ll talk about on Files list view instead of grid view. But before that, a brief summary of what happened in-between. Legitimate succession In my last post we were at the interregnum: Files grid view was temporarily managed by GtkFlowBox. Since then …

The icon view is dead, long live the icon view!

Porting Files to GTK 4 has been helping me learn and appreciate even more the legacy of the nautilus software package. Its two-decades-long history is closely entangled with the history of the GNOME project. As I prepare to merge the removal of more than 20 thousand lines of code, I’ve decided to stop and pay …

Files 40.beta: More productivity and some eye candy

Development of the nautilus project has picked up the pace for version 40, thanks to contributions from multiple people, new and old contributors alike. I’ve previously blogged about the new Creation date property and the enhanced Wallpaper action, and this time I’m talking about changes which have made it into the beta or are set …

Files 40.alpha: Creation timestamp & Wallpaper portal

Hi there, GNOME Planet. In my last post I’ve promised that the next one would have screenshots of new developments in the Files app, and it’s finally here! It took me longer than I expected back then. After the 3.38 release, I had to focus my time elsewhere: assisting and training local primary health care …

6 months later: nautilus co-maintainership and GSoC mentorship

It’s been a little over six months since my last blog post. It’s not like nothing happened since; I’ve just not got used to this yet. As Ondřej Holý has previously blogged, the (now old) news are that he has invited me to be co-maintainer of the Files app. I was hesitant at first. I’m not …