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Bug 557081 - Table columns should remember (relative) widths
Table columns should remember (relative) widths
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 164398
Product: gnome-devel-docs
Classification: Applications
Component: hig
unspecified
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: HIG Maintainers
HIG Maintainers
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Reported: 2008-10-20 13:42 UTC by Todd Chambery
Modified: 2020-12-04 18:21 UTC
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Description Todd Chambery 2008-10-20 13:42:27 UTC 
In any application using tables (Nautilus, Banshee, etc.), I have to resize the table columns every time I open the application.  In some (most?) frameworks this is left for the developer (thinking JFace), but since it is fundamental to the user experience, remembering table column widths should be a component of the HIG.  Nautilus is especially annoying--with USB plug/unplug I end up with a lot of windows, all of which have the wrong width columns.

I would argue this should be a component of the table framework itself (so developers don't have to reimplement the same code), but first things first.  

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Comment 1 Allan Day 2014-09-25 18:05:09 UTC 
I don't think there's any argument that remembering the column width is a good idea, so I'm not sure how helpful specific design guidelines on this are. Instead, I would pursue getting this fixed in the relevant applications, Nautilus being the most obvious one.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 164398 ***