Please change the 2.4.0 input field's resize behaviour

[Etan Reisner]

On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 07:18:35PM +0100, Festival.Star wrote:
> Ethan it's not about the length of a message. It is about the look of
> the whole window, everyone has its own prefernces and a lot  people
> including me don't like it if the window resizes automatically. (It is
> all about noisiness) So from my point of view that feature is an
> enforcement. It would really be fine to make it optional.

The *window* should not be resizing automatically, if your window itself
is changing sizes something is either going wrong or you have a very tiny
window such that GTK+ can't resize into the history area without violating
a minimum size requirement of some component. The input area is all that
should be resizing.

The only way to make it an option would be to have the options be the
current method and 'manual sizing with no resizing at all'. With the
expection of Mark here I have yet to see anyone who is annoyed by the four
line limit actively indicate that they leave their input area at a large
size for normal IM messages.

I have begun to consider that perhaps we should not cap the input area
size and allow it to grow as much as someone wants it to (until it
collapses the history area to one line) and then have it resize back down,
though that will be incredibly visually jarring I imagine. Does this idea
sound reasonable to anyone?

Note, I'm not concerned about whether this change is seen as 'enforcing'
anything because without actual reasons for why a manual resize is needed
I'm not at all convinced it should come back. I am more than open to
tweaking the current scheme to make it fit more people better however.

    -Etan