a feature that i personally find useful in modern versions of windows explorer is the option (in list view) to list additional mp3 info. there’s really only one column that interests me: bitrate. for my weird auditing purposes i like to make sure that my music collection is at least 128kps minimum, preferably 192kpbs. only 320kpbs or flac for music i truly love. my hearing can’t tell the difference, it’s just a peace of mind sort of thing.

so gnome’s nautilus (currently) doesn’t seem to have this feature. i hope it’s included in a future release. until then…someone has created a pretty cool script that add this functionality to nautilus. packages needed are: nautilus-python, mutagen, python-exiv2. the script is called bsc-v2.py. move/copy that script to ~/.nautilus/python-extensions.
got all that info from here: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/5211

this (of course) should function on any distro, not just ubuntu. also i could not find this functionality in kde’s dolphin either.

i stumbled upon another extension that i also find useful. it’s called “nautilus-image-converter”. which adds some basic image manipulation options to the right-click context in nautilus. i use it for batch resizing. it’s true that i could achieve the same thing via CLI or any of many GUI tools..but it’s just so convenient to do it from the file manager itself. this utility reminds me a lot of the windows xp power toy called “image resizer”.

and finally, the latest builds of kompozer 0.8 alleviate the crashing problems on systems that are using more recent releases of GTK+.