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"Automatically expand columns as needed" is still buggy
Status:
RESOLVED: WORKSFORME

Comments

Description Nick 2016-03-09 00:20:41 CET
Created attachment 6627 
Thunar screenshot

Thunar 1.6.10, Xubuntu 15.10

This bug: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6551
was supposed to have been resolved, but appears not to have been. Or, I've found a new regression.

As you can see from the attached screenshot, file names are still being truncated.

Also, you can see that the column widths are inconsistent. the 'Type' column is a little too narrow, and the 'Size' column and 'Date Modified' column are far too wide.
Comment 1 Simon Dedman 2020-03-30 18:00:08 CEST
Created attachment 9658 
screenshot
Comment 2 Simon Dedman 2020-03-30 18:01:10 CEST
Similar issue - didn't know about auto resize until now but I have it on & it doesn't seem to work; when I manually doubleclick the resize handle it shrinks the column to a standard tiny size rather than wrapping to the widest item.
Comment 3 alexxcons editbugs 2020-03-30 22:48:02 CEST
(In reply to Simon Dedman from comment #1)
> Created attachment 9658 
> screenshot

As well wrapping to the widest item is not good. Just imagine you have some file with a 300 character name.

Already got fixed by just using some sane default (30characters): https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16391

Released in thunar 1.8.14

.. that said, I will just close this bug, since IMO there is no perfect solution for the name column, and the other columns currently dont seem to have issues.
Comment 4 Simon Dedman 2020-03-30 22:55:34 CEST
> Just imagine you have some file with a 300 character name.

Fair point. Though if the user doubleclicks the resize handle perhaps that could override the auto-width?

Cheers for blazing through all these bugs recently Alex!
Comment 5 alexxcons editbugs 2020-03-30 23:07:01 CEST
(In reply to Simon Dedman from comment #4)
> Though if the user doubleclicks the resize handle perhaps that could override the auto-width?

Currently it does not. The patch just sets a default width for the name renderer, which was unset before.

If you close, and reopen thunar with "automatically expand columns as needed"  enabled, you will again get auto-width, instead of "30 chars" .. you still need to uncheck the box manually to manually define a fixed width.

Bug #12487

Reported by:
Nick
Reported on: 2016-03-09
Last modified on: 2020-03-30

People

Assignee:
Xfce Bug Triage
CC List:
4 users

Version

Version:
1.6.10

Attachments

Thunar screenshot (42.27 KB, image/jpeg)
2016-03-09 00:20 CET , Nick
no flags
screenshot (7.59 KB, image/png)
2020-03-30 18:00 CEST , Simon Dedman
no flags

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