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

 tmetro:
 The whole point of my suggestions for changes to the autoresizing code is
 so that you can do exactly what you used to do only instead of running
 into scrollbars when you go over you get the (even just marginally) better
 action of expanding. The point is not to allow you a smaller input size
 then you want if you find the resizing annoying, it is to allow you a
 smaller input size when you want to waste less space and see more history
 when you don't mind the resizing and avoid the resizing (basically)
 entirely when you don't want it by picking a default size that suits you.

 By "jumping text in the received message pane" I'm assuming you mean the
 fact that you find the history area moving to cause you to scan it for new
 messages? If so, while I don't find that a problem myself (I suppose I
 rarely talk to people who negate a message I am typing, one that is longer
 than two lines mind you, by a new message), I can see how it would be
 annoying and welcome any thoughts on how to mitigate the problem. The only
 thought I have at the moment is a method I ran into while looking up
 javascript stuff at work a couple weeks ago known as (among other things)
 the Yellow Fade Technique[1] which is essentially a fading highlight on
 changed text. This would mean that new IMs would get a fading
 background/foreground/etc. highlight and text moved by the auto-resize
 stuff would not. I don't know if that would help (or even if it is really
 possible at the moment) but it is the only thought I have currently.

 [1] http://www.37signals.com/svn/archives/000558.php

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