Hmm. I just experimented with your problem here and notice that if the window is not wide enough in list view, you cannot stretch the contents of the Name field past the
Questions: Do you get the double arrow "<->" cursor when you hover over the | divider between the "Name" and Size" fields? If you get the double arrow, Can you then hold the left button and drag to the left to make the "Name" field *smaller*? ...and then does dragging it back to the right work until the contents of the "Modified" column hits the right side of the window? I just checked and see that e.g. Nautilus 2.32 from GNOME 2.x would allow stretching the "Name" column to the right and beyond, creating a horizontal scrollbar. It appears that horizontal scrollbars are gone from Nautilus/"Files" 3.8.2. Maybe that is what you're missing? If so that appears to have been another GNOME simplification (see also the enforced "spatial Nautilus" controversy of a decade ago or the We've Decided You Must Have a Clock And It Must Be Centered In Your Top Panel of GNOME 3). Possible workarounds: * You can 'emulate' the horizontal scrollbar behavior clumsily by dragging the window around and stretching it wider than the screen (drag it so left edge hangs off left edge of screen, then widen to right, then drag the whole window back and forth. * For long paths, you can turn off the "Location" column under "Visible Columns" in the "v" dropdown menu, and have something close to "every other operating system"'s behavior where the current path is just shown in the navigation bar for the window. I agree that more of a 'split line' view for search results would be great, so the full path could show below the items returned, or developers could bring back the 'caret'/'indented' sort of expanding tree view naturally indicating the parent directories - which I miss greatly when not searching, too. (I'm guessing the old code for that 'broke' at some point during the Nautilus rewrite or it would not have gone away.) And I agree that it was kind of ridiculous to get rid of horizontal scrolling entirely, especially now that mouse wheels with left/right tilt are common, but I'm guessing they conflicted visually with the "sticky note" that has replaced the status bar to see the size and item count for the selected item. Which is sort of redundant in list view where "Size" is a column by default. [Sadly my report of the "Modified" column still regularly becoming dead to clicks is still a problem for me.] -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1205055 Title: Impossible to change column width of Nautilus in list view To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1205055/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
