Re: Patch: wider name column in list view

[Francesco Fumanti <francesco fumanti gmx net>]

At 5:18 PM +0200 4/2/07, guenther wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 09:09 +0200, Christof Krüger wrote:
> >  On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 23:30 +0200, guenther wrote:
> >  > Yes, it does.
> >  >
> >  > Double-click the separator, and the column will adjust to best fit. It's
> >  > the very same behavior and UI (double-click) as used in OpenOffice.org
> >  > spreadsheet, btw.
> >
> >  Unfortunately, it does not work as expected. Double-clicking on the
> >  separator returns to the default size (16 or 32 characters?) and not to
> >  the "best fit" which would match the longest file name in most cases.
> >  (Using version 2.18.0.1)
>
> Oops, forgot to follow-up. Indeed, you're right.
>
> Shortly after my post Kjartan pinged me on IRC, and we found out some
> details. Turns out the double-click makes GTK+ (?) set the width to some
> default value. On the 2.14.x I had available at the time of the post
> this indeed is "best fit", as in no file name is cropped. On later
> versions the default is not the same, thus double-clicking will not
> resize to best fit, but to the default...

Is there a gconf key to change the default behaviour?

Francesco