## Nautilus 1.0.4 Release Notes

2001
Eazel Inc. and Dan Mueth

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## Introduction

These release notes, last updated June 7, 2001, describe known issues for Nautilus version 1.0.4.

For information about Mozilla, visit mozilla.org and read the latest Mozilla release notes.

## What's New in Nautilus 1.0

- The Nautilus window makes it easy for you to view and manage files on your computer, and visit sites on the Web.

- The sidebar includes views of your directory hierarchy (tree), access to help and information sources, a list of recently-visited page, folder, and website locations, and space to record notes about specific folders and other items.

- Nautilus offers various views of your file and folders, such as an icon view, a list view, and a music view for MP3 files.

- For people who have a lot of MP3 files, extra features for music files and folders let you organize your MP3s into albums, attach custom icons, and more.

- Nautilus includes a fast find feature that indexes your hard disk so you can quickly search for a file by content as well as file name, creation date, and other file attributes.

- Nautilus has several customization features: You can change backgrounds, personalize icons, and switch themes.

- Quick access to Eazel Services is available through the Nautilus toolbar.

## What's New in Nautilus 1.0.2

- Translated strings and documents have been updated.

- Several critical bugs have been fixed, including several which only appeared under certain locales.

## What's New in Nautilus 1.0.3

Nautilus 1.0.3 has many improvements over previous Nautilus releases. Many of these are new features and other changes which were suggested by Nautilus users. Nautilus 1.0.3 also has significant performance improvements and many bug fixes. Some of the major improvements are described below.

Major new features and improvements:

- New News sidebar downloads headlines off of your favorite news sources.

- Improved and faster audio preview.

- Improved integration with GNOME desktop and GNOME Panel.

- Improved internationalization.

- New Script feature allows users to run any script on selected files.

- New Cut, Copy, and Paste feature for moving and copying files.

- New Delete feature which bypasses trash.

- Support for Emacs bindings, which can be enabled in Preferences dialog.

- Identifies if files were changed outside of Nautilus and updates views accordingly.

- Notes sidebar identifies whether a note exists for the directory by displaying an icon in the tab.

- Tree view is faster and does not use processor when closed.

- Improved font selection dialog.

- New global view preferences.

- Support for HTTP proxies which require username and password.

- Improved help sidebar appearance.

- Improved compatibility with gmc.

- And many other improvements to make Nautilus more intuitive and fun to use.

## What's New in Nautilus 1.0.4

Nautilus 1.0.4 has many small bug fixes and performance improvements. There are also a few new features which have been added since version 1.0.3. Some of the more notable improvements are listed below.

Major new features and improvements:

- Improved internationalization.

- Updated icons.

- Improved keybindings using Bonobo.

- Better support for XFS file system.

- New preference to have all thumbnails stored under home folder.

- And many other small bug fixes and performance improvements.

## System Requirements

Red Hat Linux 6.1 or 6.2: An IA-32-compatible system with a minimum of 32MB of RAM.

Red Hat Linux 7: The latest GNOME 1.2 or 1.4 libraries running on an IA-32-compatible system with a minimum of 32MB of RAM.

## Upgrading From a Beta Version of Nautilus

Restoring Custom Settings

If you installed Nautilus Preview Release 1, 2, or 3, you will lose some of your custom settings when you upgrade to Nautilus 1.0.x. One symptom of this problem is that your icons will look like text files and your desktop may not be correctly drawn.

The preview release versions of Nautilus created XML files (links and metafiles containing your customization information) with incorrect capitalization. Because of this error, your Nautilus links may now appear as plain text files beginning with "<?xml," and customizations such as custom icons, captions, and backgrounds may be lost.

To restore a normal appearance, open a terminal window and run this command:

nautilus-xml-migrate directory

This command searches the directory you specify (or the current directory if you don't specify one) and all subdirectories for files with a first line beginning with "<?xml" and a second line beginning with "<NAUTILUS." If any such files are found, their XML tags will be corrected to be lower case instead of upper case.

After the command has been executed, return to Nautilus and click the Refresh button to see the corrected window.

Problems Loading Web Pages

If you installed Nautilus Preview Release 1 or 2, and you are having problems loading Web pages, you may need to delete two directories. Follow these steps:

1. Shut down Nautilus and the gconfd utility. To do this, open a terminal window and enter the following commands:

- nautilus --quit
- nautilus-clean.sh -x

2. Remove the following two directories:

- ~/.gconf
- ~/.gconfd

3. Restart Nautilus.

## Setting Nautilus to Start Automatically

You can adjust your GNOME settings so Nautilus starts automatically whenever you start GNOME. Follow these steps:

1. Make sure Nautilus is running. You should see the Nautilus desktop or an open Nautilus window.

2. Log out of GNOME (open the GNOME Main Menu and choose Log out).

3. In the Log out dialog box, click the "Save current setup" checkbox.

4. Proceed to log out. The next time you log into GNOME, Nautilus will start automatically.

To stop Nautilus from launching automatically:

1. Open the GNOME Main Menu (footprint) and choose Programs Settings SessionStartup Programs. (The menu option may be Session Properties and Startup Programs.)

2. The GNOME Control Center opens in the Session Properties and Startup Programs section. If you see a Startup Programs tab, click it.

3. Click the Browse Currently Running Programs button.

4. In the list of programs, locate and select "nautilus."

5. Click Remove.

6. Make sure the checkbox labeled "Automatically save changes to session" is enabled. (If your GNOME Control Center window has tabs, this checkbox is under the Session Options tab.)

7. Click OK.

## Mozilla

It is recommended that Nautilus 1.0.4 be used with Mozilla 0.9.1. If this is not possible, Nautilus will probably work with 0.8. Mozilla 0.8.1 has a known problem which causes the links in help documents in Nautilus to not work, so this version should be avoided.

## Building Nautilus and Medusa

Medusa is an indexing program which produces an index of all the files and their contents on the computer. Because there were a couple significant problems caused by Medusa, it is recommended that Medusa be disabled.

Medusa support is automatically built into Nautilus at configure time if Medusa is on the machine. Thus, if you are repackaging Nautilus, you should be sure that your machine does not have Medusa installed on it.