GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 47806
changes to column widths are not saved
Last modified: 2011-04-13 15:02:13 UTC
Description: In the List view, the column widths do not have a lot of flexibility in terms of changing their width. How To Reproduce: - Open a folder and view it as list - Make the Nautilus window intself fairly wide on your screen - You will notice that most likely your Date column has become quite large - Now try to make it much smaller. This is the first problem, it doesn't appear like it has the ability to be made much smaller. - Further to this try and extend the Filename section to a larger size, and you will find that it's ability to get larger is quite limited (not so good for long filenames)... ------- Additional Comments From jeff@greatwirednorth.com 2001-03-18 09:41:40 ---- - Also the directory listing does not seem to remember any adjustments you make on column widths. If I go into a folder adjust the column widths, then leave, then return in the column widths seem to have changed back to default values. ------- Additional Comments From eli@eazel.com 2001-03-18 11:57:57 ---- I think this is effectively a duplicate of 45110, however it also raises the question of minimum widths. ------- Additional Comments From darin@bentspoon.com 2001-03-26 09:26:35 ---- Bug 45110 is about the maximum/minimum problem. Changing this bug so it's only about the fact that the column widths are not saved (even though that was only mentioned here as an afterthought). Next time please write separate bug reports for the separate bugs instead of appending additional bugs to the existing bug report. ------- Additional Comments From snickell@stanford.edu 2001-07-23 00:38:15 ---- Taking bugs previously assigned to Pavel, assigning them to myself. Will parse them out at my leisure , but many are GnomeVFS bugs we should look at for 2.0 ------- Additional Comments From mjs@noisehavoc.org 2001-07-23 01:16:59 ---- Move to unassigned. I'll probably want to take a crack at some of these myself, and Seth says he is unlikely to. ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-09-09 21:31 ------- The original reporter (jeff@greatwirednorth.com) of this bug does not have an account here. Reassigning to the exporter, unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org.
I hope when the "remember my column sizes" gets implemented, I will have the ability to define the column sizes _once_ for each and every directory I enter, as a kind of new default. I would not like the idea very much that the column sizes are being modified some time because I set them once and like them that way, possibly forever. (That is also one thing that bugs me from time to time when I need to use a Windows machine. Sometimes the windows explorer does modify the column sizes, even though I tried all possible settings...)
Changing to "old" target milestone for all bugs laying around with no milestone set.
This is still an issue in GNOME2, but doesn't make the "high" priority list as far as I'm concerned. Worth fixing at some point, but not in the current GNOME2 rush.
Still an issue in 2.1, adding GNOMEVER2.1, GNOMEVER2.0, bugsquad
Bumping Version to 2.5.
I think column memory is very important in making spacial navigation work well. Right not it gives List view the feeling of not being integrated into spacial mode. Any way we can bump up the priority on this? The idea in comment #1 is also good, but secondary to getting basic column width memory implemented. IMHO, this is needed to match basic functionality found in xp and OSX, and should be changed to priority Major.
The current behavior is for List view to automatically set the columns to the width of the largest item contained within that column. If this could just be patched so that there was a MAX size which could not be surpassed...it would fix the issue of long file names creating unmanagably large column sizes. This should be an easy fix till the long term with column width memory could be implemented.
We should really figure out whether the column width should be saved per-directory or globally. Usability crew, any opinion? IMHO, comment 1 sounds sane, but we also have to consider that in little spatial windows, too wide columns can be extremely annoying.
I'd certainly vote for per-window... I guess some way of setting a default for as-yet-unopened windows might be useful (in which case, the Nautilus and Evolution guys should probably co-operate on how to do it), but I think that could be a separate enhancement request, really.
Nautilus shoudl remember the column widths, this is vital and needs to be fixed as soon as possible.
*** Bug 330643 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Still not fixed in 2.14, any fixes for column width max/min in 2.16? Column sizes, in my world, would be proportional for some columns like Name and Size, but Date is almost always scrolled off the window whenever I open a list view, and that is when I most often want to sort by date to see recently added files.
@ Steeve McCauley > but Date is almost always scrolled off the window whenever I open a list view, > and that is when I most often want to sort by date to see recently added files. How about if you chnage the orde of colums in nautilus preferences? for more information pls see: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=410361#c16
I'm closing this report as a duplicate of #410361, as there's a newer discussion there. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 410361 ***