GSoC 2022: Overview
Introduction Throughout this summer I've been working on making the New Documents feature discoverable in Nautilus, a file manager for GNOME as part of the GSoC project . This post is an overview with links of the work I did together with my mentor Antonio Fernandes. Results For the project I was supposed to resolve the discoverability problem of this feature - when there are no templates in the Templates directory, the new document menu is not shown, and many users don't know about its existence. Below is a list of steps I've taken to fulfill that quest: Planning - first we had to establish a schedule for our work Research - then we had to do some research about how others implement this feature Design - afterwards we had to design a mockup for the improved feature Code - at last a prototype was made, and after several design iterations, a final MR was submitted and merged to a feature branch (not master yet), during that phase I also presented at GUADEC Future While t...