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Bug 416628 - List views start with too-narrow name column
List views start with too-narrow name column
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Views: List View
2.17.x
Other Linux
: High major
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-03-10 00:00 UTC by Sebastien Bacher
Modified: 2011-04-13 15:05 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.17/2.18


Description Sebastien Bacher 2007-03-10 00:00:38 UTC 
The bug has been opened on https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/89031

"Binary package hint: nautilus

In Ubuntu Feisty (and not before, I think), when using non-browser mode, and using list views by default, new windows are shown with very little space for the first (name) column.

It's very annoying to resize the column each time I open a new folder, just so I can see more than a couple of characters of the name.

ProblemType: Bug
Date: Thu Mar 1 20:10:34 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
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I was just about to report this as a bug, too! If I size my Name column properly, and browse some other folders in the same window, it remembers the width I set. But if I select "View as Icons", and then switch back to "View as List", it forgets the width!
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http://librarian.launchpad.net/6715956/feisty_nautilus_nonbrowse_list_default_size.png
feisty_nautilus_nonbrowse_list_default_size.png

Here is a screenshot to show how awful this is. I feel this should be a show-stopped for Feisty because it is likely to affect so many people.

This is what you get for each window after switching to non-browse mode (the GNOME default, if not Ubuntu's) and choosing view as list for new windows. You don't need to choose any different columns to get this bug.
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Comment 1 Fabio Marzocca 2007-03-10 13:26:23 UTC 
I confirm this bug is happening only in ubuntu Feisty and not before. 
Nautilus 2.17.92
Comment 2 Murray Cumming 2007-03-11 13:23:20 UTC 
Increasing severity and priority because I believe this should be a show-stopper bug. I hope that's OK.

(Note that it still has not been confirmed on a regular non-Ubuntu GNOME 2.18)
Comment 3 Luca Cavalli 2007-03-13 17:05:40 UTC 
Compiling Nautilus from SVN (2.18.1) and running in a Ubuntu Edgy environment (GNOME 2.16.1) the problem is not present (both spatial and browser mode). If someone can test it in a full GNOME 2.18 environment it whould be better :)
Comment 4 Murray Cumming 2007-03-13 17:20:18 UTC 
Remember, you need to test this with folders that you have never opened before.
Comment 5 Luca Cavalli 2007-03-13 17:27:03 UTC 
Created a new directory tree in my home with some dirs/files and opened with "src/nautilus ~/testdir".  Same result, all OK.
Comment 6 Fabio Marzocca 2007-03-13 18:04:38 UTC 
Today the bug seems to be gone! I have made a dist-upgrade in Feisty, and now it seems that nautilus is showing nicely the file list. 
v. 2.18.0.1
Comment 7 Fabio Marzocca 2007-03-14 08:23:36 UTC 
More on this (maybe can help). I have a laptop (IBM ThinkPad) with the same software configuration as my desktop. On the laptop I neve had this bug, and nautilus is listing views nicely.
Comment 8 Murray Cumming 2007-03-14 08:58:51 UTC 
This is fixed by the latest update to Ubuntu Feisty, which presumably takes a later version of Nautilus. Thanks.
Comment 9 mdurham 2007-04-03 01:02:29 UTC 
It's still not fixed for me, system is up to date 2007/4/3
Comment 10 Philipp Schlesinger 2007-05-10 08:24:03 UTC 
There is a second part to this bug (but not a duplicate, I think) reported:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=410361
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/94014