GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 477869
Widths of some columns is not adjustable
Last modified: 2008-09-19 03:35:50 UTC
Width of at least Track (track number) and Rating columns cannot be resized. This is not such a good idea, because Russian translation of "Track" simply doesn't fit the place taken by column's caption and one last letter is lost. Other information:
Hmm, I'd say that the solution to this wouldn't be to allow the column to be resized but rather to set the width more appropriately from the title.
It is still happening on version 1.0. It is not possible to adjust the width of the column to a size smaller than the column's caption. And this is specially annoying for example in "Number of reproductions" column (at least in Spanish it is a very long caption).
It's annoyng also the Track coloumn that contain just a number! is possible to use the symbol: "#" ?
While we're making related suggestions... could "Duration" be changed to "Time" and could "Play Count" be shortened in any way? It just seems like a waste of space that these columns with long captions but short values take up so much horizontal space. I'd agree that the real solution to this is to allow columns to be resized smaller than their caption. And if I'm not mistaken, once all of the captions can't fit horizontally, a horizontal scrollbar is added. Once this happens, no columns can be resized.
*** Bug 535137 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 537767 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I've spent a lot of time over the last couple days working to make column sizing 'feel right'. The track# column now has no title so it's quite small, and others should be sized correctly - big enough for the title (in whatever language) and/or the typical content of the column. Duration has been 'Time' for a couple weeks at least, and 'Play/Skip Count' are now Plays/Skips in the column header (though still the former in the context menu).
Glad to hear that changes are under way. The one thing I really wish now is that the width of any given column would be independent of all other columns. For example, my columns are in the order Title, Artist, Album, Play Count, Time, Last Played. It doesn't make sense to me that adjusting the resize handle to the left of the Artist column changes the width of the Play Count column as well. This is very different from how Banshee .13 and older worked. Is there a reason that the old way was ditched?
That shouldn't be a problem any more since ones that shouldn't resize (play count, etc) won't.