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"Automatically expand columns as needed" doesn't work
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RESOLVED: MOVED

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Description Marek Kozłowski 2009-01-13 19:50:30 CET
The longest file in dir1 is "qwertyuiop"
I toggle this option ON
I change to dir2 containing "qwertyuiopasdfghjkl"
The column width changes but I can see only "qwertyuiopasdfg"
When I change back to dir1 the column width leaves unchanged
Comment 1 Marek Kozłowski 2009-01-13 19:52:33 CET
Gentoo up-to-date stable, XFCE4 compiled by me from sources. Thunar 0.9.3 (why can't I specify that version when entering the bug?)
Comment 2 Jannis Pohlmann editbugs 2009-01-13 19:58:26 CET
Because I just added that version (it's 0.9.93 by the way).
Comment 3 Marek Kozłowski 2009-01-13 20:42:17 CET
(In reply to comment #2)
> Because I just added that version (it's 0.9.93 by the way).

"Help" -> "About" says: "Thunar 0.9.3"
Comment 4 Jannis Pohlmann editbugs 2009-01-13 20:46:23 CET
Really? (In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > Because I just added that version (it's 0.9.93 by the way).
> 
> "Help" -> "About" says: "Thunar 0.9.3"

Really? I don't think there ever was a Thunar 0.9.3.

As for the column issue: I have the same behaviour here using trunk so either Nick or I will look into it.
Comment 5 Marek Kozłowski 2009-10-26 20:12:38 CET
(In reply to comment #4)
> Really? (In reply to comment #3)
> > (In reply to comment #2)
> > > Because I just added that version (it's 0.9.93 by the way).
> > 
> > "Help" -> "About" says: "Thunar 0.9.3"
> 
> Really? I don't think there ever was a Thunar 0.9.3.
> 
> As for the column issue: I have the same behaviour here using trunk so either
> Nick or I will look into it.

Are there any patches for it?
Comment 6 Jannis Pohlmann editbugs 2010-11-13 17:29:33 CET
I'm removing the blocking-1.2 flag. This bug does not cause data loss, so it cannot be considered critical. I'm also changing the version to 1.1.4 as the most recent release of Thunar is still broken with regards to autsized columns.

I played with these things a little bit. It seems like autosizing is entirely broken. It's not applied at startup and GTK+ seems to determine the column width wrongly. We'll have to look into it again later.
Comment 7 Lionel Le Folgoc 2011-03-29 21:25:03 CEST
*** Bug 6551 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 o-k 2018-02-19 13:42:31 CET
Just as a reminder and to give a use-case where this bug has gotten even more annoying due to a change in the way files are selected now (when drag&dropping a frame to select multiple files):
https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=47461#p47461
Comment 9 Andrew Bettison 2018-10-07 09:33:08 CEST
I confirm this bug, and it is very annoying.

Debian testing just upgraded to Thunar 1.8.1, and now whenever I open Thunar on my home directory, the Name column seems to start wide then quickly contract to very narrow, leaving many names truncated with ellipses (...) at the end.

Also, since Thunar does not remember column widths (or layout) on a per-directory basis, I spend an awful lot of time fiddling with column widths instead of getting real work done.
Comment 10 alexxcons editbugs 2020-01-04 18:55:16 CET
Possibly duplicate of Bug #14462
Comment 11 o-k 2020-01-04 22:11:24 CET
Update: Using Thunar 1.8.4 and this bug still exists.
Comment 12 Git Bot editbugs 2020-05-26 23:07:44 CEST
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Bug #4801

Reported by:
Marek Kozłowski
Reported on: 2009-01-13
Last modified on: 2020-05-26
Duplicates (1):
  • 6551 Thunar option "automatically expand columns as needed" doesn't work accurately

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Jannis Pohlmann
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