[Thunar-dev] List View Option: Fixed Width Columns

[Benedikt Meurer]

Daniel Schneidereit wrote:
> Hi,

Hey Daniel,

> first of all, it's great someone is working on a new Linux filebrowser
> as I wasn't happy with any there was out there. I'm having high hopes
> for Thunar and am sure I'm not getting disappointed.
> 
> I prefer the List View in file browsers. What I noticed in current
> Thunar SVN is, that it auto-resizes the column width, at least of the
> filename column. That's an OK feature, but it'd be great if there were
> an option to disable this. Constant width columns enhances the overview,
> imho.
> 
> It would be great if this will find its way in the final release.
> Thanks alot in advance.

Honestly, I want this as default for the details view, as its the #1 way
of making GtkTreeView fast. And this is also the default behaviour for
Windows Explorer; but I dunno if people will be confused by this
behaviour, i.e. people switching from Nautilus.

> Daniel Schneidereit

Benedikt