GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 415243
Allow resizing window to optimum width and/or height
Last modified: 2012-08-17 17:12:09 UTC
Nautilus 2.16.1, Ubuntu 6.10 1. Open a folder window. 2. Double-click on the resizing grippy in the corner of the window. What happens: Nothing. What should happen: * For each of {width, height}: * If it is possible to resize the window to exactly fit the folder contents' scope in that dimension, do so. For example, if the folder is in list view, and the total width of the currently-visible columns is less than the width of the desktop, resize to that total width. * Otherwise (if the folder contents is too big in that dimension), maximize the window in that dimension. This will aid spatial recognition of folder windows, as it will ease giving different folder windows distinctive sizes and shapes. Double-clicking on the resizing grippy is analogous to double-clicking on the edge of a column header to resize that column to the optimum width.
We don't have spatial mode any more or the resize grips. We do have maximize but I think if we want to supplement that with optimize we want to do that more universally. I'm going to mark this as won't fix not because it isn't interesting but that it should have a more complete system design.