Please change the 2.4.0 input field's resize behaviour

[Festival.Star]

Etan Reisner schrieb:
> 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
>   
What about automatically resizing _and_ letting the user resize the
window by his own? If you let the user decide it fits all people.
Everyone can choose his prefered size and if that size isn't enough the
message window resizes automatically. That would be the best from my
point of view. To get me right I like resizing but I don't like the
default size of the message window. (at the moment it is an enforcement)
The most useful thing for me talking about auto resizing would be a auto
resizing of the buddy list. Because that would be really useful.

Regards!