GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 419721
"Name" column width in nautilus
Last modified: 2011-04-13 15:02:33 UTC
Please describe the problem: the behavior of nautilus regarding calculating the column width has changed. previously the first column (aka Name) would have been made as wide as needed to show the longest file name in the current directory. Now that seems to be superseded by showing "all columns" in window even when this means filenames are *not* completly visible. This has the result in changing the width of "Name column" after every directory change. The last column (in my case "owner") therefore seems allways to be much bigger then needed. Steps to reproduce: 1. open a directory in list mode 2. 3. Actual results: filenames are not completly shown Expected results: a better column width caculation Does this happen every time? yes Other information: this bug has been reported in ubuntu: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/93381 this screenie shows (hopefully) what i mean: http://librarian.launchpad.net/6851390/nautilus.jpg
I have been notified this bugreport maybe is a duplicate of: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318725
There are a LOT of duplicates of this, some closed, some not, just search for "column" and you will find them all... I really don't understand why this is not a 1st priority to fix, I only have name and size columns enabled in my nautilus and the size column is about twice the size of the name column. The first thing I have to do when opening a nautilus browser window is resizing the name column :(
update from Ubuntu bug: tested gutsy and there nautilus (2.19.4) is even somewhat stranger. You can´t change any width. Instead someone has to switch to icon view and back, then the width of all colums gets recalculated. But that doesnt seem to be logical, too.
Please have a look at: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=419343
...and : http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=410361
....and: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=416628
some other important places: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=422563 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/93381 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/94014 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/89031
Created attachment 92767 [details] screenshot showing the sizing of two columns
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 419343 ***