#422563 nautilus: Nautilus "cuts off" file names in list view

Package:
nautilus
Source:
nautilus
Description:
file manager and graphical shell for GNOME
Submitter:
José Alburquerque
Date:
2021-06-21 17:21:13 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#422563#5
Date:
2007-05-06 23:26:06 UTC
From:
To:
Hi.  I have a folder with really long names and Nautilus tends to not
display each file name completely.  Some time before (I think in 2.16)
the file names were completely shown and I'm accustomed to the old
behaviour.  Right now even regular file names in my home directory are
not fully displayed.  Is this intentional?  I think that if file names
are going to be cut off, there should at least be a tooltip that comes
up showing the entire file name when mouse "hovers" over file name (sort
of what happens in iceape/iceweasel when hovering over bookmark names
which are not fully displayed).  I hope this is not impossible.  Thanks.

#422563#10
Date:
2007-05-07 07:18:38 UTC
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To:
Le dimanche 06 mai 2007 à 19:26 -0400, José Alburquerque a écrit :

Are you sure you tried with 2.18.1-2 ? This was a bug in 2.18.1-1 which
should have been fixed now.

#422563#15
Date:
2007-05-07 07:37:27 UTC
From:
To:
Closing bug as the submitter's e-mail is not reachable.

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#422563#20
Date:
2007-05-08 00:23:11 UTC
From:
To:
Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
By closing this report, does that mean that the bug will be taken care
of in the future.  By what I understand from the explanation you
provided, this bug appeared in version 2.18.1-1 but I'm sure I'm running
2.18.1-2 (see command below) and I know the file names are still cut off
on this system:

[08:17][jose@sweety:~]$ dpkg -l nautilus
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  nautilus       2.18.1-2       file manager and graphical shell for GNOME
[08:17][jose@sweety:~]$

I hope you didn't close this report because you could not reach my
e-mail but I don't think you should have any problems because it is a
POP account and I get e-mail even when my system is down.  Please inform
me of what will happen.  Thank you.

#422563#25
Date:
2007-05-08 08:32:23 UTC
From:
To:
reopen 422563
found 422563 2.18.1-2
stop

 Reopening the bug; I don't know whether you'll get my mail, but
 Josselin's reply to you probably did not reach you: could you do
 something to allow it through?

   Bye,

#422563#40
Date:
2007-05-13 17:37:31 UTC
From:
To:
Hello, I just wanted to add that I too experience this problem on sid
(2.18.1-2). I'm happy to provide info you may need to help resolve this
issue.

Thanks!

#422563#45
Date:
2007-05-15 21:42:24 UTC
From:
To:
severity 422563 normal
merge 422563 423660
forwarded 422563 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=410361
thanks

Le mardi 08 mai 2007 à 15:59 -0400, José Alburquerque a écrit :

Le dimanche 13 mai 2007 à 20:25 +0200, Matthias Bläsing a écrit :

This behavior was changed between 2.16 and 2.18 because formerly,
nautilus would set the column width to that of the longest filename,
which was very unfriendly towards too long filenames. In 2.18, the
window is always opened without a horizontal scrollbar and the filenames
are cut. This means, you only have to resize your window (or remove
columns you don't use) to get the width you want.

The remaining problem is that, while the window size is remembered, the
columns widths are not. Which is not nice for those like you who like to
have a horizontal scrollbar in the list view.

Cheers,

#422563#56
Date:
2007-05-16 07:20:57 UTC
From:
To:
Le mardi 15 mai 2007 à 23:42 +0200, Josselin Mouette a écrit :

I have uploaded nautilus 2.18.1-3 which adds a minimum size for the name
column. Do you find this an improvement and do you have more
suggestions, especially about the minimum size value (currently 16
characters)?

#422563#61
Date:
2007-05-18 23:57:40 UTC
From:
To:
Josselin Mouette wrote:
Thanks.  It does look like the name column is not as small as it was
(really appreciate it).  I noticed by re-reading the bug report that
something was mentioned about windows remembering their column widths.
Is this possible?  I think this would fix the problem completely.

#422563#66
Date:
2007-05-19 00:07:59 UTC
From:
To:
José Alburquerque wrote:
I was just noticing that if I open my home folder, all the columns
except the name column are as wide as the longest field and a horizontal
scrollbar is included without me resizing or anything (I've included a
shot).  I sort of liked it better when the name field was also as wide
as the longest field.  Too bad that's been taken away :-(.

P.S. I didn't reply earlier because I was upgrading my system and was
offline for a couple of days.

#422563#71
Date:
2007-05-19 00:09:18 UTC
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Le vendredi 18 mai 2007 à 19:57 -0400, José Alburquerque a écrit :

Yes, that's the proposed solution, but it requires more in-depth changes
to the code, which means it won't happen in a snap.

#422563#80
Date:
2017-03-07 16:04:41 UTC
From:
To:
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#422563#85
Date:
2017-03-23 13:34:32 UTC
From:
To:
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