@ Sebastian Bacher: I found an existing bug report about this problem at Gnome Bugzilla, and I added my comment to it: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=745968 The report and the latest comment are a year and a half old, but the bug is marked as new. I guess it's better not to expect a quick patch.
@ dino99: Thanks for the workaround, dino99. It alleviated the problem somewhat. It would help more if I'd decrease the font size further, but the text would get too small then. ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #745968 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=745968 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1631560 Title: Narrow spacing of icons in Files affects file names Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: When I upgraded to Ubuntu 16.10 beta a few days ago, horizontal distance between icons in Files and on the desktop got much smaller. Because of this there's less room horizontally for the file names, and many words got their last letters cut off to the next row. In many file names full rows now alternate with rows of only a couple of cut off letters. Name fields with longer file names also look disproportionately narrow and tall now. I think the spacing should be changed back to what it was, or at least it should be user selectable. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10 Package: nautilus 1:3.20.3-1ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-20.22-generic 4.8.0 Uname: Linux 4.8.0-20-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu7 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Sat Oct 8 04:04:55 2016 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.nautilus.preferences' b'thumbnail-limit' b'uint64 4294967295' b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'sidebar-width' b'265' b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'maximized' b'true' b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-visible-columns' b"['name', 'size', 'type', 'date_modified']" b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-column-order' b"['name', 'size', 'type', 'date_modified', 'date_accessed', 'owner', 'group', 'permissions', 'mime_type', 'where', 'date_modified_with_time']" InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-03-27 (194 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Beta amd64 (20160323) ProcEnviron: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> SHELL=/bin/bash LANGUAGE=fi PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8 SourcePackage: nautilus UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) usr_lib_nautilus: gnome-terminal 3.20.2-1ubuntu5 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1631560/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
