I was just about to report this as a bug, too! If I size my Name column properly, and browse some other folders in the same window, it remembers the width I set. But if I select "View as Icons", and then switch back to "View as List", it forgets the width!
I tried creating a new "test" user account, and switching to it. The problem does not seem to occur for this new user. So it looks like my own user-settings have somehow got into a corrupt state. ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed -- List views start with too-narrow name column https://launchpad.net/bugs/89031 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs