GNOME Sushi lovers, have a good time: the spacebar preview characteristic is being mounted in Ubuntu 26.04.
For those who’re no longer aware of it, GNOME Sushi is a report preview device very similar to Fast Glance on macOS. Make a choice a report in Nautilus, press house and a floating preview window seems. It really works with pictures, video and audio information, PDFs, simple textual content information and extra.
GNOME’s Sushi isn’t preinstalled in Ubuntu however many customers set up it themselves1 because it makes it more straightforward to seek out particular information when rooting thru folders stuffed with samey-seeming paperwork, audio information and video clip.
—Smartly, apart from it doesn’t (or quite, it didn’t) when you use Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.
Sushi lovers who upgraded from 25.10 or did a blank set up discovered themselves getting a uncooked deal, as gnome-sushi doesn’t paintings with the more recent model of Nautilus the Ubuntu 26.04 comprises.
Why? Smartly, the extension Sushi makes use of to do its preview magic was once lacking, so no quantity of spacebar thwacking was once going to create a pop-up preview.
As one worm reporter laments at the damaged spacebar preview: “that’s the entire capability of gnome-sushi”.
Fortunately, a repair is en-route, rebuilt to paintings with Nautilus 50. No fishy trade; right here’s a clip of the previewer device operating on my Ubuntu 26.04 set up:
The patched model is recently being examined in Ubuntu’s proposed channel however will land within the replace channel within the coming days.
As soon as it does, you’ll set up it with:
sudo apt set up gnome-sushi
If you have already got Sushi put in in 26.04 the repair will likely be rolled up as as a normal gadget replace, no additional steps wanted as opposed to operating Device Updater to get it.
