Please change the 2.4.0 input field's resize behaviour

Sascha Vogt FunkyFish at gmx.net
Sun Mar 9 15:47:30 EDT 2008


Hi,

kirax2 wrote:
> 3. What I would not want, under any circumstances, would be a window that
> resized itself, growing as I typed.  That is about the only behavior I can
> think of that would be more annoying than the current two line restriction. 
> As I mentioned above, I will frequently have multiple chat windows tiled
> around my screen; having one adjust its own size would make it difficult to
> do this.  Additionally, it's counter-intuitive for Windows users.  Windows
> should not resize themselves. Plus, of course, the "jerkiness" that would
> necessarily result from the expansion of the window would make it hard to
> watch.
The Pidgin devs have made clear, that such a thing will never happen. So
you don't need to worry about it. Auto-resizing will only be done
*within* a window (so the inner breakdown may change automatically), if
done at all.

Greetings
-Sascha-




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