nautilus list view hard to use in hardy

[Peter T Hayward]

Binary package hint: nautilus

Ubuntu 8.04 (updated 28-Mar-08)

Nautilus version 1:2.22.0-0ubuntu3 (Hardy)

Was showing icon view of 'computer' and changed to list view. Expected to see each volume in list.

Name was present, Size was -- (and stayed -- over 30 mins), Type showed Unknown, Date Modified showed Unknown.

Tried to resize columns by dragging header boxes. Name would not drag left at first, only right despite spare space after the longest name.
Dragging the Size column right initially caused the Name column to resize left to minimum (as long as longest name). Dragging further right caused Size column to increase in width to the right. Dragging Size column back reversed these effects.
Dragging the Type column right caused the same type of effect but this time both Name and Size were reduced to minimum before Type would extend to the right.

The lack of information is a bug and the column resize behaviour is not really intuitive.

I noted that the opening of properties on the File System Icon resulted in infinite loop, I stopped at 4.5 million files.
I understand this may have been fixed by a new release.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.