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Open a Finder window with some files in it. Hit list view (Cmd-2) ... notice that the text labels do not expand to fit/fill the text contents they contain - yo

by mmjaa 10y ago

Open a Finder window with some files in it. Hit list view (Cmd-2) ... notice that the text labels do not expand to fit/fill the text contents they contain - you have to do this manually by stretching the window, aligning the list columns manually, etc. This really should be laying itself out automatically - like if you hit Ctrl-Alt-Numpad+ on an Explorer window on a Windows machine, which has had the ability to present the view in a useful, readable auto-layout .. since 1995.

coldtea 10y ago
>Open a Finder window with some files in it. Hit list view (Cmd-2) ... notice that the text labels do not expand to fit/fill the text contents they contain Why should they? I don't want the column sizes to change under me, I want them to stay as they were left. Some text labels (filename, other meta etc) could be too large to display anyway. That said, you can double click the right divider on any column to have it expand to fit the largest of its contents.
- jeremyswank 10y ago
  And if you option double-click the divider, all of the columns will be the right size.
  - anentropic 10y ago
    thanks!
  - mmjaa 10y ago
    Thanks for that .. I believe I may finally be able to fix this decades-long annoyance with this tidbit of handy information.
- mmjaa 10y ago
  >Why should they? I don't want the column sizes to change under me, I want them to stay as they were left. Well, I want the window to expand to show me the content of the folder and the file metadata without me having to do anything special - no hotkeys, no special zones to remember. This would make it actually useful, as a utility, rather than something I have to service, as a user, on a frequent basis in order to get the details I want. It just seems so obviously broken and such an obvious feature that I can't think why it isn't being done .. nearly every other file-system explorer interface I use, on Linux and occasionally Windows, can show this information properly through auto layout without human intervention .. yet Finder is some kind of special.

by mmjaa 10y ago

coldtea 10y ago

>Open a Finder window with some files in it. Hit list view (Cmd-2) ... notice that the text labels do not expand to fit/fill the text contents they contain Why should they? I don't want the column sizes to change under me, I want them to stay as they were left. Some text labels (filename, other meta etc) could be too large to display anyway. That said, you can double click the right divider on any column to have it expand to fit the largest of its contents.

jeremyswank 10y ago
And if you option double-click the divider, all of the columns will be the right size.
- anentropic 10y ago
  thanks!
- mmjaa 10y ago
  Thanks for that .. I believe I may finally be able to fix this decades-long annoyance with this tidbit of handy information.
mmjaa 10y ago
>Why should they? I don't want the column sizes to change under me, I want them to stay as they were left. Well, I want the window to expand to show me the content of the folder and the file metadata without me having to do anything special - no hotkeys, no special zones to remember. This would make it actually useful, as a utility, rather than something I have to service, as a user, on a frequent basis in order to get the details I want. It just seems so obviously broken and such an obvious feature that I can't think why it isn't being done .. nearly every other file-system explorer interface I use, on Linux and occasionally Windows, can show this information properly through auto layout without human intervention .. yet Finder is some kind of special.