Please change the 2.4.0 input field's resize behaviour

[Luke Schierer]

Mark Scott wrote:
> Kevin Stange wrote:
> 
>> Mark Scott wrote:
> 
>>> Looking at my current Pidgin 2.3.1 window I can see I have 12 lines 
>>> visible in the input field and 40 lines of conversation visible (with, 
>>> as it happens, 132 chars per line).
>> Is this a maximized window?
> 
> No, not at all.  I seldom maximize windows.  I mostly use a laptop with 
> a 1920x1200 screen and my IDE is the only thing that's routinely 
> maximized.  The screen's aspect ratio simply makes most other maximized 
> windows look 'strange'.
> 
> My current Pidgin window turns out to be 887x957 pixels, including 
> window manager decorations.  That's probably an average size.
> 
>>  I would wager that most Pidgin users don't 
>> keep their IM windows this large most of the time.  A lot of the changes 
>> in this vein were motivated by the idea of making the conversation work 
>> better at smaller sizes and may have failed to consider users that have 
>> extremely large windows.
> 
> Genuine interest: you consider ~800x100 to be extremely large?  It feels 
> just right to me :-S
> 
> Regards.
> 

Since I find myself using pidgin today, instead of finch, I thought I'd 
chime in here, I tend to use a window size of 646x569.  Still, the 
default of about 2 lines is about all I would want to display most of 
the time anyway.  The only times I'd grow an input area would be for 
sending a code snippet over IM, which really isn't an ideal thing to be 
doing to start with.

luke


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