With Nautilus 3.6 being termed as a 'Catastrophe', Canonical and Linux Mint teams are planning to drop it from their next releases. The Linux Mint team have also forked Nautilus and created their own file browser named Nemo. Now how does Nemo differ from Nautilus?

Nemo has the following features:

* All the features Nautilus 3.4 had and which are missing in Nautilus 3.6 (all desktop icons, compact view, etc..)
* Open in terminal (this is part of Nemo itself)
* Open as root (this is also part of Nemo)
* File operations progress information (when you copy/move files you can see the percentage and info about the operation on the window title and so also in your window list)
* Proper GTK bookmarks management
* Full navigation options (back, forward, up, refresh)
* Ability to toggle between the path entry and the path breadcrumb widgets
* A lot more configuration options

Developers are also planning these features to be included:

* A proper status bar
* A layout which is more similar to Caja (MATE's file manager), where the pathbar/path-entry field is below the main toolbar and only spans across the view pane
* Configurable toolbar buttons for hidden features (view-selection, zoom levels…etc).
* An action API (which allows you to define context-menu actions by writing .desktop files and mapping extensions with open-with actions)
* Better widgets
* Better search

You can have a taste of it if you use a Ubuntu based distro. Simply add a PPA and install it using the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gwendal-lebihan-dev/cinnamon-nightly
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nemo