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Column View of Finder needs to be able to show widest contained folder/file names.

Submitted by treizep on August 23, 2008 to Annoyance, Usability

Each time I use Column View I must click on the buttons at the bottom of the vertical scrollbars to adapt the width of the browsed columns to the widest contained folder/file name !

When mouse is hovering an item which doesn't entirely fit in the column a tooltip needs to be displayed over the item to show whole item name.

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Discussion (2 comments)

tomerb wrote on August 23, 2008, 1:04pm

Agreed that the small width is a problem. However, when you're looking for a short folder name just to go deeper in the tree, the suggested auto-expansion feature will definitely harm usability.
A more creative solution is required here.

treizep wrote on August 23, 2008, 1:37pm

Changed solution description.

treizep wrote on August 23, 2008, 1:39pm

@tomerb : your right, I think I found something better.

treizep wrote on August 23, 2008, 1:39pm

Changed solution description.

treizep wrote on August 24, 2008, 7:00am

Changed title from [Column View of Finder needs to adapt columns width to widest contained folder/file name.] to [Column View of Finder needs to be able to show widest contained folder/file names.].

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