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Bug 453210 - Double-click resizing of expander columns
Double-click resizing of expander columns
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gtk+
Classification: Platform
Component: Widget: GtkTreeView
2.10.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gtktreeview-bugs
gtktreeview-bugs
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-07-02 20:28 UTC by Josselin Mouette
Modified: 2018-02-10 03:35 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.17/2.18


Description Josselin Mouette 2007-07-02 20:28:28 UTC 
The following was reported to the Debian BTS [http://bugs.debian.org/430964] by José Alburquerque:

  When I double click (in the List view) on any of the "resize bars" of
  the other columns (such as size, type, date, etc.), even if they are
  smaller than the longest field at the time, they are "expanded" to the
  length of the longest field.  In any "table" program, resizing columns
  works this way so I think that the name field should be resized to the
  longest field in the list.

Debian's nautilus is patched to use an expander column, so the real question is what to do when double-clicking on the separator of an expander column.

Currently, it just resets the column width so that the window is filled. It would probably be more intuitive to make it resize the column to the size of its largest cell, but this way we would lose the ability to bring back the column to its best size instantly. I'm not sure what's best.
Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2018-02-10 03:35:03 UTC 
We're moving to gitlab! As part of this move, we are closing bugs that haven't seen activity in more than 5 years. If this issue is still imporant to you and
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