[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:  closed           
  Priority:  minor         |   Milestone:                   
 Component:  pidgin (gtk)  |     Version:  2.4.0            
Resolution:  wontfix       |    Keywords:  chat input resize
   Pending:  0             |  
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Comment (by hobbified):

 Replying to [comment:275 rekkanoryo]:
 > As I noted in another ticket related to the automatic resizing, we had
 similar numbers of complaints about our changes to the buddy list and
 status UIs in the transition from 1.5.0 to 2.0.0.  The complaints died
 down after several weeks.  The loss of protocol icons as status indicators
 is a dead issue and has been for many months now.  The change to a status
 selector that is a first-class citizen in the buddy list window also
 caused some friction that died down after a short time.  The same will
 happen with the input area resizing given time.

 Er yes, the icon issue died down because, silently, in the next release,
 YOU EFFECTIVELY UNDID YOUR CHANGES. You made the program worse, people
 complained, and then you fixed it -- only without admitting you were wrong
 or admitting you fixed anything. And this is what you're doing again. All
 you need to say is "yeah, we totally fucked up. We'll improve on that."
 But instead you maintain, as before, that fixing your regressions
 constitutes "a step backwards". So you have to fix it a different way. If
 experience is any guide, the eventual replacement ''will'' be better than
 what came before, but here's a suggestion from the backseat driver
 department: if your experiments on the path to progress break shit, DON'T
 RELEASE THEM TO THE INTERNET ''BEFORE'' YOU FIX THINGS. And if you do,
 don't pretend your shit isn't shit! The problem isn't code or pixmaps. It
 never was. The problem is you have no clue whatsoever how to communicate
 with your users, and this results in them getting pissed of at you on a
 regular basis. (Your denial of it in the very first sentence of your own
 post simply suggests that you are, as the paper says, "Unskilled and
 Unaware of It").

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