Created attachment 5799 How it looks like now When thunar decides to set layout of columns (name, size, type, date modified). It fits every column to current max width and make last one as wide as possible. It does not make sense because when you change directory data in all columns beside name will not change its width. Because of this file names are trimmed. Thunar should make name column as wide as possible. This way you will be able to see whole file name. Besides wasting space making date column widest looks very ugly. I attached two files. One is showing how it looks like now and another one how it should look like and how it looks in other file managers.
Created attachment 5800 How it looks like in other programs
Actually, the column widths should be saved. However, this doesn't seem to work, as on opening the window they get automatically resized and the saved values overwritten. This is certainly a bug.
I stand corrected. It is probably not a bug, you have to enable the settting last-details-view-fixed-columns for this to work, otherwise all columns will simply autoresize. However, I guess that is still not what you want.
Created attachment 6715 expand name column
I've added a patch that expands the name column by default. I too think it should behave like that.
Thanks, looks good to me - harald, what do you think about that fix ?
Yes, seems good, yet whoever applies this should give it thorough testing please.
Tested it lightly here, and it looks much nicer to me. The name column is expanded, while the size/mimetype/mtime columns are aligned to the right, before they were just after the name column, the last one taking the extra ugly empty space on the right.
Thanks armin, applied in http://git.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/commit/?id=cb3a2343128d6eacf6338d485b7d671f291071e6