Please change the 2.4.0 input field's resize behaviour

[Etan Reisner]

On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 10:53:05AM +0000, Mark Scott wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I find that the change introduced in 2.4.0 to the input field's resize
> behaviour makes using Pidgin very, very awkward indeed.  I regularly
> send multi-line messages and being able to see the outgoing message in
> its entirety is a desirable feature for me.  Frankly, I'm struggling to
> see any benefit at all for users in the new implementation.

Do you really regularly send IMs that are longer than four full lines? Are
these IMs something other than normal text (i.e. code snippets)? Are these
longer IMs routinely five lines, six lines, some larger number, unbounded?
Were you really happier having to either constantly resize the input area
to accomodate these larger messages and then back down again to a normal
size, or happier with an average of wasted space?

Is there some middle ground that would serve your purpose and yet provide
the benefits of the cureent automatically resizing input area.

<snip>
> Thanks for all the work on Pidgin.
>
> --
> Mark Scott
> mark at codebrewer.com

    -Etan