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

 Replying to [comment:156 dbeusee]:
 If you think the number of people who have complained about this
 constitute even a majority of pidgin users (let alone a "huge majority")
 you haven't read enough of our comments on this (and other issues) yet.
 For reference, yesterday alone (Mar 30, 2008) pidgin was downloaded from
 sourceforge 11,264 times. So even if we assume that each person downloaded
 pidgin twice, and that no one gets pidgin from any location other than
 sourceforge (both of which assumptions are rather unlikely to be true)
 then for even a simple majority of people to have commented in the
 negative about this feature would require 2817 people to have commented on
 this; seeing as how your post was post 156 and mine will be 169 (as I'm
 writing this at least) I think we can agree that we aren't anywhere near
 majority yet (and that assumes that every post in this thread was a new
 person and that every post disliked it, neither of which is true).

 No one has claimed that flexibility is bad or that no options at all is
 good, despite protestations to the contrary from our users.

 The time to add a preference is when their is not one clearly correct
 behaviour and a reasonable compromise behaviour cannot be reached. We
 still believe that a compromise is possible and are still actively
 attempting to reach it (without nearly as much help as we would like as
 those most vocally against the change seem to want to refuse to help us
 fix it).

 Funpidgin has, to date, received 164 downloads from SourceForge. Which,
 while significantly larger than I would have expected, is again nowhere
 near a majority or even a significant amount of users. If the people
 behind funpidgin want to maintain their fork they are welcome to do so. I
 think the existance of the plugin in #5296 makes the cost associated with
 maintaining a fork higher than is at all reasonable, but if they want to
 bear it that is fine. If users want to move to using funpidgin because
 they don't want to bother using the above mentioned plugin that is also
 fine (equally not worth the cost to me, but then again I don't think
 resizing my input area is fun).

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