How do I customize Nautilus / Caja file manager?
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I'm using Caja and I miss several features that I had with Windows Explorer.
I'm willing to tweak some configs or even develop code to get them but I wouldn't know where to start to collaborate... These are the features:
- More columns: audio bit rate, image width and height, date created, exif data, audio length, ...
- A property tab inside properties window for a file that shows file hashes SHA, MD5, CRC32, ...
- Set icon sizes the same, on the treeview and on the listview
- Create a set of actions available from file context menú to do with that file: get hash, get audio properties, get document hidden properties and such...
- Inherit folder color. Despite a set a color to a folder, its subfolders don't inherit the parent color.
- Delete or change position to "Link to..." when creating soft links from a file. Maybe "aFile.txt - Link" would be more practical...
- Add more sizes to zoom in order to see files and folders on the right part. As far as I know there are only 5 positions.
- Use "move/copy to" and remember the places like thunderbird does when moving/copying messages.
- Always show tabs and a filterbox on the top right with an option for searching on subdirectories...
- Use a vertical menu, instead of using a dropdown control on the left part of caja file manager for selecting places. I would upload a mockup for this one.
- Sorting files like in Windows Explorer (already treated at How to configure Linux Mint in order to file manager sort filenames using different algorithms?)
I hope you can give me some tweaks or programming clues to get some or all of these features. Ah! Happy new year everyone!
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I'm using Caja and I miss several features that I had with Windows Explorer.
I'm willing to tweak some configs or even develop code to get them but I wouldn't know where to start to collaborate... These are the features:
- More columns: audio bit rate, image width and height, date created, exif data, audio length, ...
- A property tab inside properties window for a file that shows file hashes SHA, MD5, CRC32, ...
- Set icon sizes the same, on the treeview and on the listview
- Create a set of actions available from file context menú to do with that file: get hash, get audio properties, get document hidden properties and such...
- Inherit folder color. Despite a set a color to a folder, its subfolders don't inherit the parent color.
- Delete or change position to "Link to..." when creating soft links from a file. Maybe "aFile.txt - Link" would be more practical...
- Add more sizes to zoom in order to see files and folders on the right part. As far as I know there are only 5 positions.
- Use "move/copy to" and remember the places like thunderbird does when moving/copying messages.
- Always show tabs and a filterbox on the top right with an option for searching on subdirectories...
- Use a vertical menu, instead of using a dropdown control on the left part of caja file manager for selecting places. I would upload a mockup for this one.
- Sorting files like in Windows Explorer (already treated at How to configure Linux Mint in order to file manager sort filenames using different algorithms?)
I hope you can give me some tweaks or programming clues to get some or all of these features. Ah! Happy new year everyone!
(3)
options file-manager development
edited Jan 8 at 15:05
andcoz
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asked Jan 8 at 14:37
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I'm using Caja and I miss several features that I had with Windows Explorer.
I'm willing to tweak some configs or even develop code to get them but I wouldn't know where to start to collaborate... These are the features:
- More columns: audio bit rate, image width and height, date created, exif data, audio length, ...
- A property tab inside properties window for a file that shows file hashes SHA, MD5, CRC32, ...
- Set icon sizes the same, on the treeview and on the listview
- Create a set of actions available from file context menú to do with that file: get hash, get audio properties, get document hidden properties and such...
- Inherit folder color. Despite a set a color to a folder, its subfolders don't inherit the parent color.
- Delete or change position to "Link to..." when creating soft links from a file. Maybe "aFile.txt - Link" would be more practical...
- Add more sizes to zoom in order to see files and folders on the right part. As far as I know there are only 5 positions.
- Use "move/copy to" and remember the places like thunderbird does when moving/copying messages.
- Always show tabs and a filterbox on the top right with an option for searching on subdirectories...
- Use a vertical menu, instead of using a dropdown control on the left part of caja file manager for selecting places. I would upload a mockup for this one.
- Sorting files like in Windows Explorer (already treated at How to configure Linux Mint in order to file manager sort filenames using different algorithms?)
I hope you can give me some tweaks or programming clues to get some or all of these features. Ah! Happy new year everyone!
(3)
options file-manager development
edited Jan 8 at 15:05
andcoz
12.5k33039
asked Jan 8 at 14:37
RookieOneRookieOne
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I'm using Caja and I miss several features that I had with Windows Explorer.
I'm willing to tweak some configs or even develop code to get them but I wouldn't know where to start to collaborate... These are the features:
- More columns: audio bit rate, image width and height, date created, exif data, audio length, ...
- A property tab inside properties window for a file that shows file hashes SHA, MD5, CRC32, ...
- Set icon sizes the same, on the treeview and on the listview
- Create a set of actions available from file context menú to do with that file: get hash, get audio properties, get document hidden properties and such...
- Inherit folder color. Despite a set a color to a folder, its subfolders don't inherit the parent color.
- Delete or change position to "Link to..." when creating soft links from a file. Maybe "aFile.txt - Link" would be more practical...
- Add more sizes to zoom in order to see files and folders on the right part. As far as I know there are only 5 positions.
- Use "move/copy to" and remember the places like thunderbird does when moving/copying messages.
- Always show tabs and a filterbox on the top right with an option for searching on subdirectories...
- Use a vertical menu, instead of using a dropdown control on the left part of caja file manager for selecting places. I would upload a mockup for this one.
- Sorting files like in Windows Explorer (already treated at How to configure Linux Mint in order to file manager sort filenames using different algorithms?)
I hope you can give me some tweaks or programming clues to get some or all of these features. Ah! Happy new year everyone!
(3)
options file-manager development
options file-manager development
edited Jan 8 at 15:05
andcoz
12.5k33039
asked Jan 8 at 14:37
RookieOneRookieOne
112
edited Jan 8 at 15:05
andcoz
12.5k33039
asked Jan 8 at 14:37
RookieOneRookieOne
112
edited Jan 8 at 15:05
andcoz
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edited Jan 8 at 15:05
andcoz
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edited Jan 8 at 15:05
andcoz
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asked Jan 8 at 14:37
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