As it seems upstream hasa serveral duplicates for this issue one is: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318725
from this upstream bug: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is movement on this issue as documented in the bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96239 There should be a patched Nautilus turning up in the near future for your distro according to the messages following: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2007-February/msg00048.html -- [Feisty] "Name" column width in nautilus https://launchpad.net/bugs/93381 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs