elementary / elementary/files

Allow all columns to be resized in list view

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Description

### Problem

As it currently is, when viewing a folder in List mode, all the details column widths are automatic and can't be user-resized, except for the 'Name' column.

The problem with this is that when a really large file 'Type' or localized Date exists *somewhere* in the folder, the Name column has to shrink accordingly, and increasing its size will cause the rest of the columns to overflow out of window bounds. This *cannot* be addressed by scrolling horizontally because that's not available. The only way is to maximize.

### Proposal

We can obviously just make all the columns manually resizable, however we could also set a max-width for some columns (given that a tooltip pops up on hover to show the full content).

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