Nautilus its something linux users (who use Gnome desktop) use every day. Ive started thinking about ways Nautilus can be made better since the announcement of Gnome 3.0 because its so integral to Gnome. I like it but there are a few things that I dislike.
Here are my ideas.
If the folder is large for instance /usr/bin it takes about 20-30 seconds to load that folder on my computer (If you want to know the spec its in a previous post)
I think thats a little bad, to be honest I dont know how you could fix it but I think it should be a lot better.
In vista (I know its shite) windows explorer has a tag editor for songs. So you can edit the track info like the album, title, artist etc. Nautilus doesnt have this and it would be nice to have it.
The backgrounds and emblems thing also needs some added functionality the lack of options at the moment makes it quite useless. Maybe a better colour selector would make it a little nicer. The colour wheel like in the appearance preferences wizard would work a lot better.
Better integration would be good too. If you look at evolution (I know its UI is soo ugly) in the bottom left hand corner you can make a note view the calender etc maybe add that bar to nautilus so you can access your email etc easily.
These are just a few ideas I have some crazy ones. Like playing videos and music inside of nautilus. I know it sounds crazy but I think we have to think outside the box to make Gnome really useful and easy to use.
Zeitgeist (Which I blogged about previously) will have some functionally to add to Nautilus, bookmarking of files and file tagging (Not like what I was complaining about above, this is just to aid in searching etc to be used in Zeitgeist itself) are what will probably be added by Zeitgeist.
Im not a developer of nautilus but id be happy to discuss it with them and maybe help if they want to implement any of the ideas.
Please comment with what you think.
Shane_Fagan