[Pidgin] #5559: No text input resizing

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#5559: No text input resizing
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  Reporter:  hanscastorp   |       Owner:  lschiere
      Type:  defect        |      Status:  closed  
  Priority:  minor         |   Milestone:          
 Component:  unclassified  |     Version:  2.4.1   
Resolution:  duplicate     |    Keywords:          
   Pending:  0             |  
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Comment (by deryni):

 Most every even remotely major UI change causes this much commotion (or
 more) among some subset of pidgin users. And as always the key is to look
 at this in perspective. Since February 24th of this year pidgin has
 received over 1 million downloads from the Sourceforge page alone (not
 counting anyone using pidgin from their linux distribution or local
 staging area like we have here at work)
 (http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/detail.php?group_id=235&ugn=pidgin&type=prdownload&mode=60day&package_id=230234).
 So even if a thousand people commented negatively about this it would be a
 drop in the bucket, that is and always was my point.

 I have explained the advantages of the automatic resizing numerous times,
 no one pays me any attention. To sum up, manual resizing and automatic
 resizing cannot work simultaneously (at least not that we were able to
 make work). Automatic resizing allows people to keep the input area small
 enough that they need not waste space in their IM window when they don't
 type long messages while simultaneously allowing them to see the entirety
 of a longer message without needing to use scrollbars. It gracefully
 handles the pasting of large blocks of text in a way that is orders of
 magnitude more useful/helpful if you then need to do anything with the
 text and don't always keep your entry area large. It removes the need for
 people to interact with the input area sizing at all (which streamlines
 the usage of the window which makes things easier to use and more
 immediate to the goal of sending an IM). (I said some parts of this in the
 second paragraph of http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/4986#comment:64 but
 as I said I don't expect people to actually read what I write anymore.)

 You, and the other reasonable people out there, are fine with it being a
 plugin the people behind funpidgin are clearly not. As, similarly, the
 people who were posting on #4986 until recently seemed not to be. And
 again, I don't believe the demand is really high enough to warrant taking
 maintenance on, and I only expect the demand to drop as more people get
 used to the automatic resizing. I do think the plugin should have a better
 page than the ticket though. It should probably be put in the wiki.

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