[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 DanLivingston):

 Kluvik,

 You make an excellent point.  From now on, the user base of Pidgin should
 just assume that the following fictitious letter was ghost written for the
 Pidgin development team:

 "Dear Users:

 You are most undoubtedly reading this page because you want to know how to
 manually resize the text input area in Pidgin.  It is a feature that you
 have perhaps grown accustomed to and comfortable with, but please make
 note - ''this feature is no longer supported.''

 We have received many complaints from a very small minority of the user
 base who nonetheless persists in being very vocal about their displeasure.
 Please take comfort in the fact that they are only a ''very small''
 percentage base of Pidgin users, and if ignored, will go away and bother
 some other open source project.

 Nonetheless, we feel it very important to make the following proclamation
 regarding on our stance on this project: ''we will not "fix" it.''  In
 fact, please notice that the status of this "bug" is "wontfix".  So would
 you please just get this idea through you head and go away now?

 We are developers of this software, and we develop Pidgin so that it may
 fulfill ''our'' explicit needs and desires.  If you want to join us for
 the ride, then fine.  Just shut up, though.  Please, if we've made a
 feature a certain way, it's because ''WE WANT IT THAT WAY''.  Is that so
 hard to understand?  All day long our bosses tell us what to do.  Our
 wives tell us what to do.  Our government tell us what to do.  YOU will
 NOT tell us what to do.

 Some say that as the developers of the premier open source IM client, we
 have a ''"responsibility"'' to serve as wardens of our precious charge,
 nurturing it into a fine, outstanding, model citizen of the open source
 community.  ''That's rubbish.''  The last time we checked, we didn't sign
 up for day care.  We signed up to write software that WE want to use.

 So please take your ideas and go elsewhere.  If you want a development
 team that responds to the desires of their user base, hoping to release
 world-class, quality software to millions of people, then start your own
 open source project.  It's not that hard.  It's free.  All you have to do
 is commit your time, just like we commit ours.

 The development team would very much like to come up with a solution that
 meets the needs of ''ourselves'' and the general user base.  However, we
 cannot understand your needs.  You speak in a foreign gibberish, gobbledy
 gook language that none can understand.  "I just like it that way!"  That
 is not an answer!  You must enumerate the metrics and aspects of your
 preferences and desires in ''ways that we can evaluate and then assimilate
 into our collective''.  We cannot currently assimilate any of your idiotic
 reasons for wanting a resizable text box.  And by idiotic, we mean "any
 solution which does not fit into the scheme of our cleverly intelligent
 auto-resizing text field."

 So, just to make it clear: we will not listen to your suggestions unless
 your suggestions make sense to us, and we like them.  If you do not like
 it, there are plenty of other ways on the Internet in which you may occupy
 your time.

 Regards,
 Pidgin development team"

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