[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 grassmonk):

 I agree with all of the points made by [comment:82 rfgiusti].  I have been
 using Gaim/Pidgin for the last 5 years or so, on both Windows and Linux,
 and have had zero problems until now.

 However, the new auto-resize behavior drives me absolutely crazy.  I
 routinely send longer-than-4-line messages to people, e.g. code snippets,
 quotes, etc.  I don't mind scrollbars if I paste 100 lines into my, say,
 20 line input area, and I also don't mind if I only type two characters
 into that same 20 line input area.  I want a fixed size, and I want it to
 be as big or small as I choose.

 As others have pointed out, why can't auto- and manual-resizing be
 mutually exclusive?  Let auto-resizing be the default, but ''let me turn
 it off'' if I want to.  If the old behavior of dragging the text area to
 my preferred size cannot be restored, why not the the ability to set a
 min/max number of lines for the input window, instead of the hard-coded
 2/4 values (or even a min/max percentage)?  Whatever the solution may be,
 I don't want the input area to auto-resize, ''ever''.

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/4986#comment:94>
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