filebrowser columns not resizable ?

Christoph Cullmann (cullmann.io) christoph at cullmann.io
Fri Jan 14 21:51:44 GMT 2022


On 2022-01-14 22:37, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> since quite some time I cannot adjust the width of the columns in the
> filebrowser anymore. So now to make the name column wide enough so that 
> I can
> read the full name I have to make the file browser very wide. Before I 
> could
> just make the name column wide.
> Is there a reason why this has been changed ?
> I made the columns locally resizable
> header->setSectionResizeMode(QHeaderView::Interactive);
> 
> Are there objections against such a change ?
> This could also be a configurable option.
> This way, when starting, the first time the columns are quite small. 
> Any
> preferences how to handle this ?
> I could just set some initial width, or some width from QFontMetrics, 
> or save
> the width in the config, or something else ?

Hi, if you provide some patch to make it configurable, I see no reason 
to not add
this. Could be just added to the configure menu button.

I have no idea why and when this was changed, perhaps the git history 
tells about that.

;=) Merge requests welcome.

Greetings
Christoph

> 
> Alex

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