Column resizing in list view is counter-intuitive

[Timmie]

When choosing the view "as list" the author column is not resized by dragging its left-hand divider, but its right hand divider

[John S (jcspray)]

It is possible to resize the columns by dragging the divider between author and year. But yes, it's pretty messed up.

[StefanAO (stefanao)]

I can confirm this...

[Charles Pence (cpence)]

Also, I seem to be unable to make columns *smaller*, no matter what I do. I can click and drag around on the column handles, but all I do is make the columns wider. Not sure if this is a separate bug or not, but for now I'll post it here.

[Charles Pence (cpence)]

Let me clarify what I meant on my comment above: If you drag to make the "Title" column bigger, it makes the entire window larger, and no matter what I do, I can't shrink the Title column without switching to Icon View, shrinking the window, and switching back to List View.

Weird.

[rre (rrecheve)]

To partially fix the original bug... when author column is created inside DocumentView, you can change its expand atribute to true and get a working left-hand divider.

In referencer hg 1.1.5, open src/DocumentView.C, go to line 1476 and change

addColumn ("author", _("Author"), docauthorscol_, false, true);

by

addColumn ("author", _("Author"), docauthorscol_, true, true);

Not perfect, but you get a working left-hand divider for author column... a little bit more intuitive.