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

[Benedikt Meurer]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:
>>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.

Ok, this is now available as an option in Thunar, see:

http://www.xfce.org/~benny/tmp/thunar-visible-columns.png

Disabling this option also speeds up the detailed list view a lot, esp.
with older Pango versions.

Benedikt