No way to make column width to auto-adjust in list view

[Guraknugen]

Binary package hint: nautilus

Double clicking the right ”border” of the field head doesn't make the column width adjusted to the actual file- and folder name lengths. I couldn't find another way to do it either, except to manually click and drag to the desired width. If I double click, it will automatically adjust to a too narrow width, so I can't see the complete file names. This is annoying when several files has almost the same name, like MyInterestingFile0001.odt, MyInterestingFile0002.odt and so on, or even MyFantasticSong.ogg and MyFantasticSong.flac, especially if the file type column is not included.

Sorry for bad English.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open Nautilus
2. Navigate to a folder that contains files with long names
3. Switch the view to List View
4. Double-click on the separator between the first and second column (by default Name and Size)

Expected behaviour:
The width of the Name column adjusts to accommodate the longest file name in the list.

Actual behaviour:
Nothing happens.

Ubuntu 10.04
Nautilus 1:2.30.1-0ubuntu1.1

[Bruno Girin (brunogirin)]

Confirmed in Lucid and Maverick.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

there' some discussion going on here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318725 which is being tracked on bug 94014

[Guraknugen (guraknugen)]

Den 2010-09-07 21:24:23 skrev Pedro Villavicencio <email address hidden>:

> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 94014 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/94014

I can't see that this is the exact same bug, since mine is more about what
happens when double clicking that separator thing, but I am probably wrong
as usual. I wouldn't know anyway; I am a guitarist and know nothing about
computers.

>
> there' some discussion going on here:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318725 which is being
> tracked on bug 94014

Yes, I found that interesting. Thanks for the link.

> ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #318725
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318725
>
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 94014
> In list view, the name column's size is not remembered
>
:)

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Best regards

Johnny Rosenberg