Always present sidebar weakens UX with medium sized windows
Affected version
- Nightly flatpak: Yes
- Other: Nautilus 43+ (discovered only now by testing the upcoming Debian Bookworm in VM)
Use cases
Using medium sized windows of files on desktop allow to work with multiple folders opened. Specifically, as a teacher I have frequently 2 open Nautilus windows next to a LibreOffice one, because one Nautilus window is for the lesson I'm working on, and the other for the sources of it. In Nautilus 3.38 (I'm on Debian Bullseye) I can have an overview over 2×18 files, which will be reduced to 2×12 with Nautilus 43+ (see pictures attached)Debian-Bullseye - Fedora-38 (My actual setup allow me to have up to 4 nautilus windows).
Available features and workarounds
Being on Bullseye, I don't have to find a workaround for now.
Difficulties and insufficiencies
I will have much less useful information within the same window size, as I rarely use sidebar.
As a side note, doing the screenshots for this issue, I realized that the list view is unusable in medium sizes : in the picture below you see you need a wide window to see the full date of a screenshot.
Suggested enhancements
having the possibility to hide the sidebar would improve the UX for medium sized windows.