searching from Nautilus automatically increases "location" column width

Bug #1335496 reported by Adnan
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
nautilus (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Sometimes when searching from within nautilus "name" column width gets automatically reduced (list view) and "location" column width gets automatically increased. Instead of all column width(s) remaining the same size which is what should happen. This happens when Nautilus finds files deep nested in your folders.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open a nautilus window by clicking on the launcher icon.
2. Navigate to root directory (computer) or a mounted volume on a different hard drive.
3. Switch to "view items as list" and click search button
4. Now search for any file e.g. "xls" file or "deb".

What happens:

1. The "name" column starts getting reduced automatically as soon as it starts to find file deeper nested in to your folder(s).
2. And the "location" colunmn gets automatically wider to show the entire location so much so that you cant even see the file names anymore.

What should happen:

The "name" column width must not be disturbed instead "location" column should get truncated and we should only see a partial location instead of the full location.

system info: ubuntu 14.04 LTS files 3.10.1

Adnan (adnan-rauff)
description: updated
tags: added: column location nautilus search
Adnan (adnan-rauff)
description: updated
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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