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He forked his file manager and had the AI add the column view it never had

The Nautilus file manager never offered a miller columns view. He forked it and had the AI add the feature, and the fork is publicly available.

How it works

  1. Forks Nautilus
  2. The AI implements the miller columns view
  3. Working fork published

Why it’s worth knowing

A long-missing feature in a major file manager got built by one user and an agent instead of the project.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on njump.me. See the original ↗

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