[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 rekkanoryo):

 Replying to [comment:279 hobbified]:
 > 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.

 [[BR]]
 It was not the next release.  The protocol icons were taken away in
 2.0.0beta7 and did not come back until version 2.2.0, a full ''six''
 releases later.  Those icons still did not come back as status icons--
 instead they came back as an additional icon column in the buddy list.  It
 was not a silent change, either, as there was debate when the addition of
 that stupid option happened, and it was clearly noted in the ChangeLog.

 [[BR]]
 > 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").

 [[BR]]
 While most of the above is nonsensical crap not worth replying to, I will
 note that our development model has worked for 10 years, and will continue
 to work regardless of a few disgruntled users.

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/4986#comment:282>
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