It has many features:
* Compact view
* All desktop icons, these are missing in nautilus 3.6 vervion
* Open terminal and open as root
* Copy or move files shows percentage and details while file operation
progress
* Better search
* It has a cute and nice bookmark management
* It has UP, FORWARD, BACK and REFRESH buttons
* Proper status bar
* Better widgets
And NEMO offeres these too :-
* It has built in "Open as root" context menu item
* Detachable tabs
* You can add/remove the up icon, refresh icon, toggle button for the location
bar or path bar, home icon, computer icon and search icon.
* Title bar and tab bar contains a option to show the full path.
* If it running as root, it display the elevated privileges
* It built "Open in terminal" context menu item
* It add a new option on the context menu ("set as wallpaper")
* It add GTK bookmark with move to/copy to option to context menus
* Have switch view button on the toolbar for Grid, List and compact views
* sidebar with collapsable category
* It support sidebar for drag and drop bookmark
* Sidebar indicates under each drive and display the free or used space
* It is very supportive to sending files via Thunderbird and xdg-email
* It improved the properties for image
* Memory leaks fixes
To install the stable version of Nemo:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gwendal-lebihan-dev/cinnamon-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nemo
To install the bleeding edge version:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gwendal-lebihan-dev/cinnamon-nightly
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nemo
