[wishlist] banshee should have an 'auto size' option for column headers

[Dominic Evans]

Binary package hint: banshee

It would be useful if banshee provided an auto-size option for columns, similar to iTunes.

In iTunes you can auto-size a single column by right-clicking on the individual column header and choosing "Auto Size Column", which increases the width of that column until the longest line can be read. Alternatively you can choose "Auto Size All Columns", which resizes all of the columns to a 'best fit' size for all data currently being displayed.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: banshee 1.4.3-3ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SourcePackage: banshee
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

[Michael Martin-Smucker (mmartinsmucker)]

The upstream report (579945) was marked as a duplicate, so I'll change Assigned To... here to reflect that.

[Ronnie Guthrie (ronnieguthrie)]

This doesn't just affect Banshee but other apps using the same control, such as Rhythmbox and Nautilus.

Have just updated to Ubuntu 10.10 and still this issue persists.

Any chance of escalating this one?

[Michael Martin-Smucker (mmartinsmucker)]

As far as I know, Banshee uses a custom list view, so fixing the standard column widget in GTK+ is a bit of a separate issue. If there isn't a report open for GTK+/Nautilus/Rhythmbox/(probably) Evolution, it might be good to open one.