elementary / elementary/files

ColumnView: Expose preferred column width setting

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Description

## Problem

As it stands, in column view each column takes up so much space that files can hardly keep 2.5 of them in view at a relatively standard window size:
![スクリーンショット 2021-05-02 11 49 13](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/58219504/116810589-7d175280-ab3c-11eb-83a9-dc6cf84995cc.png)
Combined with the autoscrolling, users have to constantly readjust the column size and scroll.

## Proposal

Reducing the default column width to 120 would mostly alleviate the problem, as it keeps plenty of content on screen, while also fulfilling the purpose of it being a navigation-focused mode rather than something like icon grid mode. The length of text problem (if it is even a problem) could be solved both by implementing something like #1590 and also #1601

## Prior Art

![スクリーンショット 2021-05-02 11 52 42](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/58219504/116810650-eb5c1500-ab3c-11eb-83c0-bff275c0cdc1.png)

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