Bug#422563: Reopened Bug Report #422563

[José Alburquerque]

Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mardi 15 mai 2007 à 23:42 +0200, Josselin Mouette a écrit :
>   
>> This behavior was changed between 2.16 and 2.18 because formerly,
>> nautilus would set the column width to that of the longest filename,
>> which was very unfriendly towards too long filenames. In 2.18, the
>> window is always opened without a horizontal scrollbar and the filenames
>> are cut. This means, you only have to resize your window (or remove
>> columns you don't use) to get the width you want.
>>
>> The remaining problem is that, while the window size is remembered, the
>> columns widths are not. Which is not nice for those like you who like to
>> have a horizontal scrollbar in the list view.
>>     
>
> I have uploaded nautilus 2.18.1-3 which adds a minimum size for the name
> column. Do you find this an improvement and do you have more
> suggestions, especially about the minimum size value (currently 16
> characters)?
>
>   
Thanks.  It does look like the name column is not as small as it was 
(really appreciate it).  I noticed by re-reading the bug report that 
something was mentioned about windows remembering their column widths.  
Is this possible?  I think this would fix the problem completely.

-Jose