Bug#422563: Reopened Bug Report #422563

[José Alburquerque]

José Alburquerque wrote:
> Josselin Mouette wrote:
>> Le mardi 15 mai 2007 à 23:42 +0200, Josselin Mouette a écrit :
>>  
>>> This behavior was changed between 2.16 and 2.18 because formerly,
>>> nautilus would set the column width to that of the longest filename,
>>> which was very unfriendly towards too long filenames. In 2.18, the
>>> window is always opened without a horizontal scrollbar and the 
>>> filenames
>>> are cut. This means, you only have to resize your window (or remove
>>> columns you don't use) to get the width you want.
>>>
>>> The remaining problem is that, while the window size is remembered, the
>>> columns widths are not. Which is not nice for those like you who 
>>> like to
>>> have a horizontal scrollbar in the list view.
>>>     
>>
>> I have uploaded nautilus 2.18.1-3 which adds a minimum size for the name
>> column. Do you find this an improvement and do you have more
>> suggestions, especially about the minimum size value (currently 16
>> characters)?
>>
>>   
> Thanks.  It does look like the name column is not as small as it was 
> (really appreciate it).  I noticed by re-reading the bug report that 
> something was mentioned about windows remembering their column 
> widths.  Is this possible?  I think this would fix the problem 
> completely.
>
> -Jose
>
>
I was just noticing that if I open my home folder, all the columns 
except the name column are as wide as the longest field and a horizontal 
scrollbar is included without me resizing or anything (I've included a 
shot).  I sort of liked it better when the name field was also as wide 
as the longest field.  Too bad that's been taken away :-(.

P.S. I didn't reply earlier because I was upgrading my system and was 
offline for a couple of days.

-Jose
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