Nautilus is always going to be hobbled by the huge padding that gnome's default themes put between text and object borders. It's just hard when you can only fit

Nautilus is always going to be hobbled by the huge padding that gnome's default themes put between text and object borders. It's just hard when you can only fit 50% as much information in the same number of pixels. That was one of the big things that drove me away from Linux and is still an ongoing problem when I have to work with Gnome programs.