Making Pidgin small-screen-friendly

[Casey Ho]

2009/2/19 Michael Terry <michael.terry at canonical.com>:
> Hello, gentle Pidgin developers!
>
> I'm from Ubuntu land, and I was investigating how to make Pidgin fit on
> tiny netbook screens as part of our Ubuntu Netbook Remix project [1].  A
> common screen size is 1028x576 (the current hot spot price-wise with
> manufacturers, but the trend is ever smaller), with some of that taken
> up by panels; we're hoping to fit in ~520-540 vertical pixels.

While not all of your suggestions will fly, I agree the prefs window
should be made shorter.

Other devs, if there are no objections to
http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/7548 I'd like to commit it.