[Pidgin] #3640: menutray should not float over menus

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#3640: menutray should not float over menus
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 Reporter:  lithium   |        Owner:              
     Type:  defect    |       Status:  pending     
Milestone:            |    Component:  pidgin (gtk)
  Version:  2.2.1     |   Resolution:              
 Keywords:  menutray  |  
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Changes (by deryni):

  * status:  new => pending


Comment:

 Being able to resize the buddy list to smaller than the menubar width is
 something that pidgin needs to specifically enable (as GTK+ by default
 does not allow that). We enable this mostly because some translations have
 incredibly long menu titles which drive the width of the window up well
 beyond a reasonable width. The fact that GTK+ copes with this manual
 hackery badly (in this case by overlaying an icon over the menu text) is
 not surprising nor am I particularly sure it is something we should do
 anything about (or even can do anything about).

 Personally, I think enabling the free shrinking is a mistake and something
 we shouldn't have done. However, given the language issue that wasn't a
 tenable position to take.

 It is worth pointing out that fixing this to always place the icon after
 Help will render the feature entire unavailable for anyone who shrinks the
 buddy list like this.

 Unless anyone strenuously objects (and has new reasons for doing so) I'm
 going to close this ticket as wontfix (though I'm open to moving it
 Patches Welcome to allow for someone to come up with an alternate solution
 to the problem if people would prefer).

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