Feature request: Nautilus integrated terminal

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I frequently switch from Nautilus to term, because some operations are easier in one but not the other.
I generally do right-click / Open in Terminal, but it opens a new windows, and it quickly clutters the space, and I lose track of which term goes with which nautilus window.

That would be very useful to be able to unfold/fold an integrated terminal in nautilus, in a similar fashion that what exists in VSCode or other IDEs.

When the terminal opens, its WORKDIR is the one of the current nautilus view.

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But, file managers aren’t IDEs.

Does any DE or file manager support this kind of usage?

I think I used to use this kind of terminal a long time ago.

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Does any DE or file manager support this kind of usage?

KDE’s Dolphin has an embedded terminal; F4 to toggle it.

Cinnamon’s Nemo has an optional embedded terminal, with the nemo-terminal extension.

Gnome Commander sort of has it; you can run commands directly from the bottom bar and see their output, but it’s not a full terminal.

Dolphin’s embedded terminal is nicest I think;

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Well to me the terminal and the file manager seem like the two sides of the same coin.

  • File Manager is graphical
  • Terminal is textual

In both you stand basically ‘somewhere’ in your file system, and you apply operations on the files, (edit, execute,…), and move arround (in parent/children directories)
Maybe one extra thing that terminal can do is to run any command from the PATH (which is not what a File Manager offers)

Actually a great feature would be to have them synced, so that when you open the terminal panel, and go into any directory, it is reflected in the filemanager view (and the same in the other way around).
Update: I just tested Dolphin right now, and it does the sync by default. Nice!

That would be so great to have something similar on Nautilus