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Nemo (file manager)

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Developer(s)
  
Linux Mint

Operating system
  
Unix-like

Development status
  
Active

Platform
  
Cinnamon

Nemo (file manager)

Initial release
  
September 2012; 4 years ago (2012-09)

Stable release
  
3.2.2 / 12 December 2016; 3 months ago (2016-12-12)

Nemo is the official file manager of the Cinnamon desktop environment. It is a fork of GNOME Files.

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History

Nemo version 1.0.0 was released in July 2012 along with version 1.6 of the Cinnamon user interface, reaching version 1.1.2 in November 2012. It started as a fork of the GNOME file manager Nautilus v3.4 after the developers of the operating system Linux Mint considered that "Nautilus 3.6 is a catastrophe". Developer Gwendal Le Bihan named the project "nemo" after Jules Verne’s famous character Captain Nemo, who is the captain of the Nautilus.

Features

Nemo v1.0.0 had the following features as described by the developers:

  • Uses GVfs and GIO
  • All the features Nautilus 3.4 had and which are missing in Nautilus 3.6 (all desktop icons, compact view, etc..)
  • Open in terminal (this is part of Nemo itself)
  • Open as root (this is also part of Nemo)
  • File operations progress information (when you copy/move files you can see the percentage and info about the operation on the window title and so also in your window list)
  • Proper GTK bookmarks management
  • Full navigation options (back, forward, up, refresh)
  • Ability to toggle between the path entry and the path breadcrumb widgets
  • A lot more configuration options

    • References

    Nemo (file manager) Wikipedia
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