increasing default entry textbox height

[Francois Botha]

Will Thompson wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 01:59:38PM +0200, Francois Botha wrote:
>   
>> jonathan wrote:
>>     
>>> The vertical scrollbar should disappear if you just increase the 
>>> height of the textbox for 1 or 2 pixels. You can do so through 
>>> dragging the border above Font - Insert - Smile.
>>> This way you can also enlarge the textbox to a size for 5+ lines 
>>> without having a scrollbar.
>>>
>>> These settings are saved if you close the IM-Window.
>>>       
>> Thanks, I know you can increase it manually, but I was wondering about a 
>> default setting, so that I would never have to set it for a "new" window.
>>     
>
> In Pidgin trunk, the text input always starts out two lines high and
> expands to fit more text if necessary (up to some limit).  This will
> probably be the behaviour in 2.4.0.
>   

Can anyone confirm that IRC channels' input height aren't saved?  I 
couldn't find any tickets about this.

My suggestions are never popular but any chance of making the *default* 
height configurable? Would be great :)

Francois