GNOME Files 3.8 beta brings back TreeView in List View

Files 3.8 will now have an option to add a TreeView in your ListView, which I speculate it was there in 3.4 (I never used it) and it was removed in 3.6. This doesn’t equally replace the TreeView, but is a nice addition anyway.

Cosimo also made a big clean up and he removed NautilusDesktopBackground with the message “It’s gone! \o/” :)

Tree in List View

In Display Options Panel of Files there is now a <Navigate Folders in a Tree> Preference.

Cosimo also managed to remove all the dependencies to <nautilus-desktop-background.c> (which was including a set of functions to manipulate desktop aspects) and he deleted the file with the funny message: It’s gone! \o/

Changelogs

Major changes include

3.7.90

• Add back a Treeview option for list view. This is off by default, and is backed by a checkbox in the Preferences dialog
• Add a “Connect to Server” item in the Network section of the sidebar
• Add a “Format…” item in volume context menus in the sidebar
• Fix accelerators not showing up in gear and view menus
• Use G_APP_INFO_CREATE_NEEDS_TERMINAL instead of handrolled code (William Jon McCann)

3.7.5

• Switch to hovered locations on DnD (William Jon McCann)
• Support a –force-desktop commandline option for classic mode
• Add a separate desktop file for classic mode integration
• Use a better position for navigation button popup menus
• Fix many memory leaks (Pavel Vasin)
• Fix a crasher when a file in trash has reserved characters in the filename
• Fix a crasher when closing the sidebar immediately after construction
• Fix a crasher closing the properties dialog while calculating folder size
• Fix backup files showing up in search provider results
• Fix floating bar buttons being added twice

3.7.3

• Update search provider to org.gnome.Shell.SearchProvider2 interface
• Rely on GIO to parse “.hidden” files
• Consistently use unicode ellipsis instead of three periods (Jeremy Bicha)
• Use a different label for removing a file from “Recent” (Paolo Borelli)
• Restore the previous behavior wrt. framing for custom icons
• Share the “show hidden” GSetting option with the GTK+ file chooser (Timothy Arceri)
• Fix missing unmount sync notification under some circumstances
• Fix infinite loop while deep counting the size of “/” (Phillip Susi)
• Fix wrong filename when restoring file from trash (Timothy Arceri)

3.7.2

• Request to render larger thumbnails by default
• Don’t quote the current location name in search bar
• Use “Run” in menus when launchine executables
• Fix stray Empty Document item in New Document menu

3.7.1

• Turn on again recursive search for the simple engine
• Enable incremental loading for search directories
• Add extra information to image properties page
• Show free space pie chart for the local root filesystem
• Resolve symbolic links before launching a file
• Avoid sync I/O when reading bookmark locations
• Don’t add non-existent XDG folders to the sidebar
• Don’t offer to remove built-in XDG folder bookmarks
• Fix black input field when renaming a file in icon view with XIM enabled
• Fix wrong return location when unmounting a remote mount
• Fix notebook tabs not properly switching after timeout when hovered
• Fix search toggle button state inconsistent when switching between tabs
• Fix crasher when using the Tracker engine from the Shell search provider
• Fix crasher in Shell search provider
• Fix crasher when unmounting a volume under certain circumstances