If this is easy to solve and backport, I would like to have this in the next release, as we did a lot of column related changes in other tables already for that release.

• The status column is already removed in the gpg4win branch but not yet in the test version
• afaik "Valid Until" is actually available for keys coming from WKD
• For the column widths, we could hide the table until the initial search results come in and then resize to content, or just always resize to content when results come in

afaik "Valid Until" is actually available for keys coming from WKD

you're right. So no columns to remove, as "Status" is gone already.

I would prefer hiding the table until there are results, but that's no strong opinion and only based on visual reasons

I wouldn't hide the table. We don't hide any tables (e.g. also in smart card view) if they are empty. I would resize ones on very first show (if restoreColumnLayout() returns false). This fixes the initially cut column titles. And then I'd resize to content when the search results are shown, but also only the very first time (i.e. we'd need to remember the first show).

Backported for VSD 3.3

Should I close this ticket again and make a new one for the width of the result?

Then explicitly for the 2nd part of this ticket mentioned in https://dev.gnupg.org/T7252#190230:

And then I'd resize to content when the search results are shown, but also only the very first time (i.e. we'd need to remember the first show).

As discussed offline we continue in this ticket.
Please resize to content when the search results are shown, for the first time only.
Additionally name and emails should have the default column with of the certificate list.