Bases - fractional/percentage/proportional column widths

Feature requests
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Use case or problem

I need more natural space distribution between columns in my bases.

Currently, the layout code is very primitive - either accept explicit (absolute) widths or make each column as narrow as possible (except for the last column that fills the space).

This often leads to very frustrating result: main information gets “squished” while some least significant last column dominates the screen space.

Trying to work with absolute sizes is also very annoying when accessing on multiple devices with different screens.

Proposed solution

  • level one - make default distribution of columns to scale up all columns if there is free space
  • level two - add units to columnSize values. Like with CSS values, I’d like to be able to specify column sizes not just in absolute values, but also in fractional units (fr) and/or percentage of available screen space (columns don’t have to add up to 100% - that’s on me as a user).

Current workaround (optional)

None that I’m aware of.

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