[Pidgin] #4986: automatic chat input field resizing should be optional, regression from 2.3

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#4986: automatic chat input field resizing should be optional, regression from 2.3
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  Reporter:  swbrown       |       Owner:                   
      Type:  enhancement   |      Status:  reopened         
  Priority:  minor         |   Milestone:                   
 Component:  pidgin (gtk)  |     Version:  2.4.0            
Resolution:                |    Keywords:  chat input resize
   Pending:  0             |  
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Comment (by Bosmon):

 Yes, yet *another* drive-by signup. On downloading the new version I
 independently Googled for an issue such as this, read the thread with
 mounting outrage, and feel obliged to add myself in as yet another data
 point in this depressing example of communication in a distributed project
 "doing its thing" :)

 quoting dernyi:
   I have repeatedly asked for constructive help and repeatedly asked not
 to be told   that the only possible help is to revert the change or add an
 all-or-nothing preference.

 Will you please stop trying to bias what you consider could be the opinion
 of your user community? The only possible help *is* to add an all-or-
 nothing preference, since that is what I, and a large number thread
 participants have clearly articulated *is* the top-level feature they
 require. I don't know how many repetitions of this process you will
 require until you accept that this *is* the constructive help, since what
 you are seeing here is users directly demanding the feature that they know
 they want :)

 If you consider somehow this request is not "constructive", I can only
 assume what this implies is that you believe your users are "wrong" in
 what they want (perhaps it violates some UI or design guideline you have
 in your mind), and goodness only knows where that line of thinking might
 lead :)

 Just to be completely clear - I *do not want any form of auto-sizing
 applied to my input area at all*. I do not care how much time and thought
 has been lavished on any devlishly cunning algorithm that is provably
 "almost always right". I want to decide this height for myself, and I do
 not want it to change.

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