Bug#546287: nautilus: View/list - Unable to shrink fields, like name (long file names)

[Jari Aalto]

Package: nautilus
Version: 2.26.3-1
Severity: normal


1. Open nautilus
2. Visit directory where file names are 100+ or more characters long
3. Select View -> List
4. Put Mouse-1 on field "Name", just before "Size" column to adjust size
   of field
5. Try to shrink the length of "Name" field to the left

=> Can't be done so that file names would be truncated.

The length of the frame of the program is so long, that it barely fits on
the screen area. The inability to shrink the fields makes the program useless
for dealing with long file names.

See picture for examples of long file names.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages nautilus depends on:
ii  desktop-file-utils        0.15-2         Utilities for .desktop files
ii  gvfs                      1.2.3-3        userspace virtual filesystem - ser
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.26.0-1       The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbeagle1                0.3.9-1        library for accessing beagle using
ii  libc6                     2.9-23         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                 1.8.8-2        The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2          0.82-1         simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexempi3                2.1.1-1        library to parse XMP metadata (Lib
ii  libexif12                 0.6.17-1       library to parse EXIF files
ii  libgail18                 2.16.5-1       GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgconf2-4               2.26.2-3       GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.20.5-1       The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2-11     2.26.1-1       Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.16.5-1       The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                   2:1.0.5-1      X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libnautilus-extension1    2.26.3-1       libraries for nautilus components 
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.24.5-1       Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libselinux1               2.0.85-2       SELinux shared libraries
ii  libsm6                    2:1.1.1-1      X11 Session Management library
ii  libtrackerclient0         0.6.95-2       metadata database, indexer and sea
ii  libunique-1.0-0           1.0.8-1        Library for writing single instanc
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.2.2-1      X11 client-side library
ii  libxml2                   2.7.3.dfsg-2.1 GNOME XML library
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.4-2      X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  nautilus-data             2.26.3-1       data files for nautilus
ii  shared-mime-info          0.60-2         FreeDesktop.org shared MIME databa

Versions of packages nautilus recommends:
ii  app-install-dat 2009.06.06               Application Installer Data Files
ii  consolekit      0.3.0-3                  framework for defining and trackin
ii  desktop-base    5.0.5                    common files for the Debian Deskto
ii  eject           2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-6 ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
ii  gnome-mount     0.8-2                    wrapper for (un)mounting and eject
ii  gvfs-backends   1.2.3-3                  userspace virtual filesystem - bac
ii  librsvg2-common 2.26.0-1                 SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  nautilus-cd-bur 2.24.0-3                 CD Burning front-end for Nautilus
pn  synaptic        <none>                   (no description available)

Versions of packages nautilus suggests:
ii  eog                      2.26.2-1        Eye of GNOME graphics viewer progr
ii  evince [pdf-viewer]      2.26.2-2        Document (postscript, pdf) viewer
ii  totem                    2.26.3-1        A simple media player for the GNOM
pn  tracker                  <none>          (no description available)
ii  vlc [mp3-decoder]        1.0.1-1         multimedia player and streamer
ii  vlc-nox [mp3-decoder]    1.0.1-1         multimedia player and streamer (wi
pn  xdg-user-dirs            <none>          (no description available)
ii  xpdf-reader [pdf-viewer] 3.02-1.4+lenny1 Portable Document Format (PDF) sui

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