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NautilusSvn and New Emblems

After writing last week about how I missed the Windows-only Tortoise(CVS|SVN) in GNU/Linux and sharing my simple scripts for running Subversion commands from Nautilus, I found Nautilus Svn by Jason Field, an Extension written in Python. (And available under the GPL v2.) It’s very nice, and adds (among other things) a major feature that you want in a graphical source control tool integrated with your file manager: visual cues of file status via icons. It uses Nautilus’s Emblems:

Those are what I have by default with the “Human” theme in Ubuntu 7.04/Feisty Fawn. So what are emblems? I’ve previously noticed the house emblem on my home dir and the lock emblem on system directories (hard to miss them). There is also a tab in file …

Subversion (SVN) GNOME Nautilus Script Helpers

Update, 3 November 2007:

Found a better solution: Jason Field’s NautilusSvn. More SVN features, much better integration with Nautilus, and uses emblems to show file and directory status. There is a .deb file that installed easily on my Ubuntu 7.04/Feisty Fawn machine. And it’s free as in GPL v2. Thanks, Jason!

Use NautilusSvn instead of my meager scripts!

Update, 6 November 2007:

I wrote another post about NautilusSvn and replacement emblems.

Update, 22 February 2008:

Jason’s site has been down today. Acting as a backup, here are the files I downloaded back in November:

nautilussvn_0.9-1.deb (25 KB)
NautilusSvn_v0.9.tar.gz (25 KB)

Hopefully jasonfield.com will be back soon and then I recommend going there for the latest and greatest.

Extend the file manager with right-click popup menu options for adding, updating, and commiting SVN files, as …

HOWTO: Rotate JPG images in GNOME’s Nautilus File Manager

Originally published 6 October 2007 in Free Software Magazine. It was pointed out in the comments there that Nautilus Extensions is another way of customizing Nautilus, and that the extension nautilus-actions should be used instead for what I’m trying to do here. I had seen Extensions mentioned as a more powerful alternative at gnome.org, but I still like scripts for this job. However, I should at least acknowledge Nautilus Extensions as another option.

I recently went looking for a way to rotate JPG images from within Nautilus, and found a nice way to do this and more. It’s not difficult to customize the right-click popup menu in Nautilus to perform custom actions on files. Here are some instructions and scripts to get …

How do you disable the CTRL+T ‘move to trash’ shortcut in GNOME/Nautilus?

10 July 2007, Answered! Thanks to und0 for explaining in the comments. See below…

I just discovered an inconvenient default behavior of the Nautilus file browser. (At least, it appears to be a default in Ubuntu 7.04/Feisty Fawn.) I thought I was in my Firefox window and pressed <CTRL> T to open a new tab, but the focus was in Nautilus and I deleted a file instead. I wasn’t quite sure what I did at first since my attention was on the Firefox window. I immediately checked for an “undo” command in the edit menu, but there doesn’t seem to be one for Nautilus. (Also quite unfortunate.)

Still not sure what had happened, and like a dummy, I pressed CTRL+T again and this time could clearly see a file …

Brasero does the CD burning job in GNOME

Update, 7 July 2007 Maybe Brasero is more for the basic jobs. K3b will do more for you…

My system76 desktop machine came with a CD-RW/DVD-RW drive that I’ve finally got around to trying out. I wasn’t too concerned about how it would work with GNU/Linux, since I suspected CD and DVD burning should be relatively well-supported by now. Of course, you never know until you try.

I’ve been chugging along with getting my backup regime in place and it’s only a matter of time before I’ll need to start making DVD backups on my GNU system. I’d taken a peek at the built-in burning software in Ubuntu, and it hadn’t looked very impressive. I was looking forward to diving in and resolving my uncertainty about CD/DVD management, …