I've made a better patch to fix this issue more thoroughly. The problem is that a lot of column space simply is unallocated (belongs to *no* column) because the columns weren't being properly resized.
I've posted a patch at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=410361 to fix this as well as make the name column even bigger by default - this seems to make it wide enough for most filenames on my machine while not hiding the Date column in the default Nautilus view. -- List views start with too-narrow name column https://launchpad.net/bugs/89031 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs