Sushi (software)

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Sushi 0.4 previewing a PNG image in Nautilus on Fedora 17 Beta.
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Sushi is a file previewer for the GNOME Desktop Environment. It is available as a standalone package, integrated with GNOME Files (formerly named Nautilus).

GNOME desktop environment and graphical user interface

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GNOME Files GNOME file manager software

GNOME Files, formerly and internally known as Nautilus, is the official file manager for the GNOME desktop. Nautilus was originally developed by Eazel with many luminaries from the tech world including Andy Hertzfeld (Apple), chief architect for Nautilus. The nautilus name was a play on words, evoking the shell of a nautilus to represent an operating system shell. Nautilus replaced Midnight Commander in GNOME 1.4 (2001) and has been the default file manager from version 2.0 onwards.

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The combination of Sushi and GNOME Photos is intended to replace Eye of GNOME. [1]

Eye of GNOME free image viewer software for the GNOME desktop environment

Eye of GNOME is the official image viewer for the GNOME desktop environment, where it is also known as Image Viewer. Eye of GNOME provides basic effects for improved viewing, such as zooming, full-screen, rotation, and transparent image background control.

History and functionality

Sushi was first introduced in GNOME Shell 3.2. [2] Its sole purpose is the ability to preview files in Nautilus, [3] which can be invoked by hitting the spacebar while selecting a file. Sushi's abilities extend from the GStreamer framework, enabling the playback of all content which GStreamer supports, by default and through plugins. In addition to media formats, Sushi supports previewing of most plain-text documents, including scripts (with syntax highlighting), as well as HTML documents, PDF files, and SVG files.

GStreamer Pipeline-based multimedia framework

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Syntax highlighting

Syntax highlighting is a feature of text editors that are used for programming, scripting, or markup languages, such as HTML. The feature displays text, especially source code, in different colors and fonts according to the category of terms. This feature facilitates writing in a structured language such as a programming language or a markup language as both structures and syntax errors are visually distinct. Highlighting does not affect the meaning of the text itself; it is intended only for human readers.

HTML Hypertext Markup Language

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References

  1. ↑ "GNOME Photos 3.8.0". 2013-04-15.
  2. ↑ "Quick File Previewing". The GNOME Project. August 31, 2011. Retrieved April 21, 2012.
  3. ↑ https://blogs.gnome.org/cosimoc/2011/04/29/sushi/
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