Major changes in 2.12.2 are:
* Skip non-existant bookmarks in menu/sidebar
* Sort applications in open dialogs and menus
* Deletion confirmation dialog fixes
* Fix leaks
* Fix crashes
Major changes in 2.12.1 are:
* Pass all selected files to menu extensions, not only one per mimetype
* Use much fewer file monitors
* Fix text size on startup with non-standard default zoom size
* Some fixes to trash handling and unmount
* Fix some desktop icon positioning details
* Copy thumbnails when copying files
* Autofill connect to server dialog when possible
* Always show deep counts in properties page
* Fix leaks and crashes
* Correctly escape filenames for display in progress dialog
Major changes in 2.12.0 are:
* Fix icon layout in text-beside-icons mode in some cases
* Fix template creation on volumes other than the same as /tmp
* Expand file uris correctly on desktop when passing to scripts
* Workaround crash on audio preview in burn:
* Fix handling of global show hidden files preference
* Fix crash caused by earlier memleak fix
* Don't redraw windows/desktop on focus in/out
Major changes in 2.11.92 are:
* Enable emblem dropping to the list view
* Disallow deleting special locations from the location button popup
* Don't show "Open Folder" as application option in context menus
* Disallow custom icons for the trash
* Cleanups & Leak fixed
Major changes in 2.11.91 are:
* Don't allow renaming of the desktop folder
* Make moves within burn:// possible
* Fixes to property browser drag and drop code
* Add Explorer-style keybindings
* Add timestamps to metafiles
* Make ESC switch back to the pathbar
* Use saner check for mime mismatching
* Make progress dialog minimizable
* UI fixes
Major changes in 2.11.90 are:
* Handle dnd more efficently
* Use file-manager icon for browser windows
* Use hover underline and cursor for single click mode
* Make labels selectable in the sidebar
* Improve sound preview process handling
* UI fixes to path- and sidebar
Major changes in 2.11.4 are:
* Allow dnd of text on view to create a new file
* show hostname in progress dialogs
* use pathbar in location toolbar
* busy curson when loading folder in browser mode too
Major changes in 2.11.3 are:
* Turn the list view into a tree
* No dnd drop rect on the desktop
* Use gtk bookmars as bookmark source
* Add bookmarks to spatial mode
* New places sidebar
* better sort order for filenames with numbers in them
(needs glib 2.7.x)
* Better handling of font sizes wrt zoom in icon view
* Fix leaks
Major changes in 2.11.2 are:
* Fix sort order for size/count/time
* ctrl+scrollwheel changes zoom, ctrl-= zooms in
* better handling of cut and paste in notes text view
* Add smb domain field in connect to server dialog
* nicer handling of drops from mozilla
* no properties menu item for desktop context menu
* shift-f2 renames with the whole name initially selected
* sort by emblem only looks at user-set emblems
* scroll to icon when selected and partially visible
Major changes in 2.11.1 are:
* Use authentication in external connect to server app
* UI polish
* Allow DnD of location button icon.
* Context menus on location button and location label in browser
* Fix memory leaks
* Fix crashes
* Speed up delete in list view
* Fix rename in list view breaking when there was a file change
* Removed "new terminal" from desktop context menu
If you want this, install the nautilus-open-terminal extension,
its much better than this feature ever was.
* Don't thumbnail files constantly if they're changing
* Fixed a loop that could happen on remote locations when removing
a directory.
* Add properties of the current folder menu item to background
context menu
* Use --no-desktop in default folder handler to avoid taking over
the desktop if you don't run gnome.
Major changes in 2.10.0 are:
* Some fixes for startup notification to avoid focus-stealing
* Center the file management prefs dialog
Major changes in 2.9.92 are:
* Avoid doing i/o to tree root nodes before they are used.
This means we don't get authentication callbacks.
* Correct handling of startup notification
* Fix crashers in desktop icon context menus when unmounting volumes
* Make property page for home icon on desktop show the right size
* Prevent the progress dialog from displaying strange ETAs
* Make backspace key open parent folder in list view
Major changes in 2.9.91 are:
* Fix some crashes
* Don't pop up mozilla dnd ask dialog under windows
* Change the look of the path button to make it easier to find
* Some changes to the look/text of the progress dialog
* Fix panel size detection on 64bit machines
* Allow open with menu on folders
Major changes in 2.9.90 are:
* Better window titles for browser windows
* Better icons for burn: & computer: in the ui
* Allow eject of unmounted devices
* Better handling of DnD from mozilla
* Make connect to server dialog availible as separate app
* Use GtkAboutDialog
Major changes in 2.9.2 are:
* Use the new mime API
* Fixed bug in finding empty spots on the desktop
* Handle drags to special desktop icons (trash...)
* Fix crash in clipboard code
* Fix crash with non-unique volume filenames
* Better handling of sizes for image-file-as-icon
* Fill in ctrl-l dialog correctly for desktop
* Fix crash in bookmark dialog if parent window goes away
Major changes since 2.7.92 are:
* Destroy metadata hashtable in right way, fixes crash
* Fix crash in list view when changing views
* Translation updates
Major changes since 2.7.4 are:
* Fix crash when transfer rate near zero
* Fix crash when renaming in list view and changing directory
* Fix double call of eel_preferences_remove_callback on shutdown
* Use default folder view from gconf instead of now broken gnome-vfs mime setting
* Some fixes to the handling of open with
* Faster way to get the group list for a user
* Don't make progress dialog on copy to desktop appear on all workspaces
* Fix sort by size in computer view
Major changes since 2.7.2 are:
* Fix remaining time reporting in progress dialog
* Nicer connect to server dialog
* Various bugfixes and memleak fixes
Major changes since 2.7.1 are:
* Added spatial/browser pref to the prefs dialog
* Use ctrl+q to add all windows
* On shift-double-click on a non-folder, close the window after.
* Bug fixes
* Show estimated time remaining in the progress dialog.
* per-window show hidden files setting
* Don't warn about mime-type mismatches if the handler is the same
for both mime-types.
* Date formatting improvements
* Killed start-here
* Changed to use the new mime spec and UI
Major changes since 2.6.2 are:
* Desktop file editior property page
* Display server name in window title for remote URIs
* Add setting to not show volumes on desktop
* Prevents read-only emblem from being shown on desktop icons
when user is in root group
* Fix dnd start coordinates when zoomed
* Start apps in the directory they are launched from
* Add close all windows to spatial window menu
Major changes since 2.6.2 are:
* Improved drag and drop responsiveness
* Set working directory of launched processes to current view directory
* Zooming fix
* Crash fixes
Major changes since 2.6.1 are:
* Accessibility/keynav/theming fixes
* Leak fixes
* .desktop file updates
* Fixed help buttons in the preferences dialog
* Portability fix
* Use initial click position to anchor icon dnd
* Crash fix in the file properties dialog
* Don't overlap the close icon and text label when the sidepane is very small.
Major changes since 2.5.91 are:
* Translation updates
Major changes since 2.5.90 are:
* Handle failures when opening new window better (don't loop)
* visiting and accept modifiers were reversed in list view
* Build fixes
Major changes since 2.5.8 are:
* Beter typeahead in list view
* "browse" context menu item in more places
* Added go -> cd burner in browser mode
* Fallback to normal icon view if there is a problem launching another view
* Close windows on unmounted directories
* Fix crashes
* Longer delay until cancel open dialog opens
Major changes since 2.5.7 are:
* Fix crash
* Nicer names for toplevel uris
* Browse folder works in more places
* Added preference to always use browser windows
* Warn when sniffed/extension-matched mime type disagrees
* Show applications for both sniffed and extension-matched
mimetype in the open with menu
Major changes since 2.5.6 are:
* Fix icon lookup crash
* Fix property page crash
* Some a11y fixes
* Use new background capplet name
* Fix rename keyfocus issue
* Scroll to icon after rename
* Fix ogg previewing
* Some HIG rephrasing of strings
* Fix crash on rename of empty selection
* Update help userguide links
* Paste menu sensitivity fix
* Rename selection keynav now behaves better from the start
Major changes since 2.5.5 are:
* hig/ui tweaks
* ngettext support
* distribute nautilus-list-view-ui.xml
* New mimetype detection approach
* performance fixes
* non-modal open with other dialog
* Don't show small svgs as themseleves (always thumbnail)
* update egg-recent
Major changes since 2.5.4 are:
* Extension system for emblem, property page, menu item, and
list view column plugins.
* Editable list view columns
* Don't expand symlinks when following them.
* Busy cursor in loading spatial windows
* Icon-view style typeahead in the list view.
* Emblems in the list view
* Added a location button to spatial windows
* Removed tab icon nav from the icon view
* Add a context menu to the tree side pane.
* Pop up folder menu in list view background
* Turn on home icon on the desktop by default
* Added status bar info when no files are selected
* Got rid of unnecessary EelGenerousBin/EelInputEventBox usage
* HIG fixes
* Bugfixes
Major changes since 2.5.3 are:
* Use GtkIconTheme instead of GnomeIconTheme
* Show visited folders differently
* Better mouse/keynav in icon and list view
* Save window geometry on window close
* HIG message dialogs
* File templates support
Major changes since 2.5.2 are:
* Accessibility fixes
* Better initial size of navigation window
* Close all parents closes all parents
* Focus the next item after delete in list view
Major changes since 2.5.1.1 are:
* Don't do unnecessary i/o on remote locations
* handle broken symlinks that go unbroken
* various bug fixes
* some accessibility fixes
Major changes since 2.5.1 are:
* Fixed a NautilusFile leak
* DISABLE_DEPRECATED fixes.
Major changes since 2.5.0 are:
* Start of new volume handling system
* deprecaton clean
* fixed leaks
* performance fixes
Changes:
* Handle cd volume names where the data track is not first
* Fix list view crash bug
* Fix shutdown crash bug
* Fix crash on unsupported URIs
* Don't show eraser in background browser
* Fix crash on going back when a view failed
* Don't show anything in views before all files are loaded.
* Make the desktop snap grid smaller vertically
* Fix accessibility crashers
* Double click on rows in tree sidebar expands rows
* portability and build fixes
* don't migrate .gnome-desktop if it is a symlink
* Fix messed up home/trash icons for new users
* Handle xpm icons correctly in desktop files
* Handle non-utf8 user names
* Fix warning on theme changes
* Sometimes the home and trash icons became blank and unusable
* Auto-hide KDE trash directory in desktop directory.
* Fix history sidepane crash
* Add keynav rectangle selection
* Better error string for missing proxy hostnames
* Handle arrow keys on numerical keypad
And more... review Changelog to see a full list of changes.