That bug has been opened on https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/41217

"I am running nautilus 2.14.1-0ubuntu4 and noticed when I right-clicked on a directory, selected properties, and selected the emblems tab that the emblems are all in single-file. What's odd is that there seems to be enough room for three columns of them. If I resize the properties window then they line up in multiple columns.

I think the problem is some long emblem names, like "stockpile-priority-high." Whatever the problem, it makes the emblems tab look unpolished.
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> Thanks for your bug. What locale do you use? Could you make a screenshot of the issue? What do you call "single-file", one column used for them?
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I am using the default locale -- American English.

I do mean one column.

http://librarian.launchpad.net/2341064/usr_bin.png
no problems... don't know why.

http://librarian.launchpad.net/2341070/desktop.png
has the problem... some folders have the problem, some don't. thought maybe it was permissions based... but they had the same permissions.

affects both folders and files.

I just checked the emblems available in the two folders -- one that was single-columned, one that was two-columned. There were no differences, unless I missed one. And I didn't notice that the names were any different in length.

Sorry to keep commenting and clogging your inbox...

but the width of the two windows are different for no reason i can tell. the wider one having the two-column emblem list."