[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 rudidude86):

 I agree with [comment:109 Sim-on] that any change to the UI will always
 ruffle a few feathers, but I think the scope of this change warrants all
 the serious questions about it.

 If someone is typing a lot of stuff and they fill up their text input box,
 the program can either slap in a scroll bar or expand the height of the
 box (or a weird mixture of the two in this case). Either choice seems
 reasonable and this particular aspect of what changed isn't a big deal.

 The real problem is that '''the ability to manually resize the input box
 has been removed.''' That's a ''huge'' UI change and directly hurts the
 experience of a lot more people than it helps.

 The argument is that users don't need to bother with resizing now that
 Pidgin "does it for you," but what if I ''want'' to change it because
 that's how I likes it? Maybe it's a white-space fetish, maybe it's
 aesthetic taste, maybe a box that's barely bigger than my text feels
 psychologically limiting and claustrophobic. It's hard to concretely
 defend, but having an unchangeable default size feels '''very wrong,'''
 and it's clear that a lot of people feel this way. What's gained from
 removing manual resizing?

 Adium (v1.2.3) handles this issue elegantly by both allowing you to
 manually change the size of the text input box per window '''and'''
 resizing it for you if you happen to run out of the room you allot
 yourself. Pidgin should mimic this behavior.

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/4986#comment:111>
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