marlin

A definitely intensive community-based talk is related to and centered into Nautilus, Ubuntu's default file manager, that, across the latest development cycles, has shifted from a relatively popular application to a psychologically "attacked" utility, attacked from various points, such as the recent removal of imprinted-into-user's-mind functionalities, the new GNOME branding (bearing a generalist attitude, in the sense that, according to various users, the simplistic, minimalistic design approach can be equaled with a lack of features oriented to developer's lack of intention to maintain "

While the user activity is usually related to browsing the web, editing pictures, playing games, creating documents, etc, it seems that, various actions related to numerous online and offline applications are directed towards file managers, hence, the importance and solid amount of feedback commonly attracted by file managers.

Marlin is a fancy file manager, featuring an increased amount of eyecandy, "absolute" toolbar, easily accessible content view states and a neat clickable addressbar, components that present the user an usable, simple yet polished file manager.

Marlin is a fancy file manager filled with eyecandy that aims to provide an enjoyable experience when dealing with files.

Marlin is Elementary's file browser focused both on eyecandy and functionality, designed probably as a notorious Nautilus Elementary step forward.

We announced Marlin months ago and, while in Ubuntu 11.04 didn't quite fit, is properly designed and built for Ubuntu 11.10 (Marlin is fully GTK+3).

The look is simple yet properly organized in three main areas (when in fullscreen mode):

Some say that Elementary is just about copying Mac, others say that Elementary combines what is best from both worlds (Mac and Ubuntu),certainly one thing is for sure: their projects bring quite interesting ideas.

Elementary's view for a file-browser is Marlin, a separate application that continues the notorious Elementary Nautilus, and, just now, 0.1 version has been released in their development PPA.

So, what's new in Marlin 0.1?