Thank you for your bug report. What would you expect the right behaviour to be? The layout is built by assigning their width to the columns on the right and then using the available free space for the names. If each column width was matching the content then there would be some empty/white space on the right of the view, also navigating between folders the geometry would change according to the content/filenames in the directory
Could you also perhaps make your design suggestion directly upstream on https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues ? ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2078511 Title: Unable to reduce column width for file NAME in nautilus Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: In Nautilus, I'm unable to shrink the width of the Name column. I can increase it, but the default wide value is the minimum size. And it's really wide. And none of the filenames are long. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04 Package: nautilus 1:46.2-0ubuntu0.2 Uname: Linux 6.10.6-061006-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu3.1 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: pass CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Fri Aug 30 14:43:40 2024 GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-column-order' b"['name', 'size', 'type', 'owner', 'group', 'permissions', 'date_modified', 'date_accessed', 'date_created', 'recency', 'detailed_type']" b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-zoom-level' b"'small'" b'org.gnome.nautilus.preferences' b'default-folder-viewer' b"'list-view'" b'org.gnome.nautilus.preferences' b'migrated-gtk-settings' b'true' b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'maximized' b'true' InstallationDate: Installed on 2024-08-28 (3 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS "Noble Numbat" - Release amd64 (20240424) ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 PATH=(custom, no user) SHELL=/bin/bash TERM=xterm-256color XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> SourcePackage: nautilus UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) usr_lib_nautilus: nautilus-extension-gnome-terminal 3.52.0-1ubuntu2 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/2078511/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
