BIbigyabai·Nov 23, 2025
This one has it: https://github.com/elementary/files
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elementary / files
files
File browser designed for elementary OS
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File browser designed for elementary OS
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Observed mentions: 2021-04-01 14:55:54 UTC to 2025-11-23 17:47:29 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
4 sourcesBecause we're critiquing the design, can you make nice-to-use apps following the GNOME human interface guidelines or is it rotten to the core? Is Nautilus fixable while staying within the "GNOME way?" And the answer is yes, there's plenty of examples. Elementary even makes a nice file manager following them https://github.com/elementary/files.
I'm not going to defend Nautilus or pretend it's good, I just don't care. I haven't used it in years. I do use the other GNOME apps and the DE and they're really good. GNOME's disinterest in Nautilus I think stems from my disinterest in it, what full-time Linux user uses a file manager?
In Gnome Files: A detailed UI examination> I wish Gnome would add them!
> I'd be happy using Linux more of the time if they did!
Try Phanteon Files[0] from the Elementary Os team. Or Ranger[1] if you work in the terminal.
[0] https://github.com/elementary/files
[1] https://github.com/ranger/ranger
In Ask HN: If you could change the UI of any software. Which would you change?I think it's interesting that so many things in elementary OS are written in Vala. They are probably the biggest user of the language.
For example:
Calculator: https://github.com/elementary/calculator
Calendar: https://github.com/elementary/calendar
E-mail client: https://github.com/elementary/mail
File manager: https://github.com/elementary/files
Image viewer: https://github.com/elementary/photos
Music Player: https://github.com/elementary/music
Terminal: https://github.com/elementary/terminal
Window manager: https://github.com/elementary/gala
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