Behavior makes me cry

[Peter Spotts]

Although I have no dog in this hunt, I see folks'  point. As a
workaround, can someone offer up the right line in the right source-code
file to change 4 to 10 (or whatever). Then one could just edit the line
and recompile!

Pete

On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 10:53 -0800, mail at millerm.com wrote:
> Ethan,
> 
> Thanks for all the efforts in Pidgin.
> 
> I've been using it on a long time, and as strange as it may seem, the
> whole reason I switched to Pidgin is because I've used other clients that
> had non-resizable text input fields and found this unacceptable.
> 
> I want to be able to control what size my input text is. I frequently send
> 10+ line messages, as does my girlfriend and many of my friends, and I
> find that I am unable to use Pidgin until this problem is corrected.
> 
> This isn't a threat or anything, just the truth, as I don't expect you to
> care much about one users -- however, if Pidgin can't be made to somehow
> have an adjustable text input size, then I (and my friends who also use
> Pidgin) will be forced to switch to a different IM client that allows a
> resizable text input field.
> 
> This is a non-negotiable requirement for my girlfriend and I (and several
> of my friends) in an IM client.
> 
> Not sure why this was removed, but boy, does it make Pidgin hard to use.
> 
> Thanks again for all the efforts. I successfully used Pidgin for many
> years with no complaints, but maybe it is time to move on.
> 
> 
> Mike Miller
> 
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