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Custom columns and invisible wall

Posted: 2010-12-08, 00:33 UTC
by Damel
Hi Christian,
when some extension is longer than the Ext column width, then it free flow to the Size column. See left panel:

But in Custom columns is here some invisible wall, which cutoff the long extensions. See right panel:

Image: http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/6158/customcolumns.png

Maybe you want this behaviour for some reasons, but would be nice if you add new column content "separator" or "cutter" (with width=0) or option "Dock content in column". Or you can just remove this behaviour. Free flow to the free space in next column is IMHO better.

Posted: 2010-12-08, 05:27 UTC
by Vladimyr0
Do you really have many files with such "longlonglong" extension?
If it will be "free flow" to the size column, it will overlap the size digits.
I suppose these files sometimes can be bigger than 1 byte ;)

Hopefully, I do not see such behavior. How to turn it on?
Image: http://files.myopera.com/Vladimyr/files/longextension.png

Posted: 2010-12-08, 08:20 UTC
by ghisler(Author)
when some extension is longer than the Ext column width, then it free flow to the Size column.
This is NOT a bug, it's a feature, so you can see as much as possible of such a long extension! If you don't like it, you can use a custom columns view, it limits the field to its column.

Posted: 2010-12-08, 10:18 UTC
by Damel
Vladimyr0 wrote:Do you really have many files with such "longlonglong" extension?
No. But some files has and I can this long extensions normally see in Full view, becouse they take space in Size column. This is nice feature. Problem is only in Custom columns. If I make my own custom columns, then this files has his long extensions cutoff. See right panel:
Image: http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/6158/customcolumns.png
Vladimyr0 wrote:If it will be "free flow" to the size column, it will overlap the size digits. I suppose these files sometimes can be bigger than 1 byte ;)
Not true. It will not overlap the size digits. See:
Image: http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/93/customcolumns2.png

Posted: 2010-12-08, 10:20 UTC
by Damel
ghisler(Author) wrote:
when some extension is longer than the Ext column width, then it free flow to the Size column.
This is NOT a bug, it's a feature, so you can see as much as possible of such a long extension!
True. I like this feature. I don't like "cutoff feature" in Custom columns.

- I want use my own custom columns
- I want see long extensions
- but concurrently I don't want have big width of Ext column with big waste space

This is unsolvable now :)