[Pidgin] #8718: Make buddy pounce fit smaller screens

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Wed Mar 18 09:30:54 EDT 2009


#8718: Make buddy pounce fit smaller screens
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     Reporter:  mterry  |        Type:  patch       
       Status:  new     |   Component:  pidgin (gtk)
      Version:  2.5.5   |    Keywords:  size        
Launchpad_bug:          |  
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 The current buddy pounce editor is enormous.  There are just a lot of
 widgets there that take up vertical space, notably the 'send a message'
 action text box.

 A few solutions were discussed on the mailing list (e.g. move some of the
 'pounce when' checkboxes to other columns, make the 'send a message' text
 entry be shown in a popup dialog like when editing per-account status
 messages).

 I tried them, but they weren't enough space.  So I went to plan B: add
 tabs.

 So this patch is very uninvasive as a result (just adds a notebook and
 moves some widgets to a second tab).  I also reduced the border of the
 dialog itself, to better fit the HIG (the notebook adds its own border and
 so requesting an extra border of HIG_BORDER is too much).

 With this patch, we fit about 460 pixels.  Before this patch, we were just
 shy of 700 pixels, which is not the Right Thing To Do
 (http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/RightThingToDo).

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/8718>
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