Note:

The following is a duplicate of a bug opened on launchpad (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/421489) that is now being pushed up stream.

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Details:

If "Compact View" mode is selected, and the item names in the current folder exceed the width of the nautilus window, when the user moves between items (up/down arrow) there is a glitch as the folder items are redrawn.

I suspect the folder contents are first rendered with the window scrolled to the right (i.e. showing the endings of all item names), then the contents are redrawn with the window scrolled to the left (i.e. showing the start of the all item names) - there need only be one rendering (the latter).

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To reproduce:

 1) Create a new folder and open using nautilus.
 2) Create two or more files with names that exceed the width of the window.
 3) Ensure the window is scrolled to the left (i.e. the start of the file names can be read).
 4) Highlight one of the items.
 5) Switch between items (up/down keys).

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System information:

$ uname -a
Linux newton 2.6.27-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Aug 18 17:21:41 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ nautilus --version
GNOME nautilus 2.24.1