** Changed in: pidgin (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged => Fix Released
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Title:
using long statuses causes unusable dialogs
Status in Pidgin:
Fix Released
Status in “pidgin” package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Bug description:
Binary package hint: pidgin
When a huge status message (200 characters+) is used and remembered by
Pidgin, the Preferences dialog and other menus will be extremely wide
and will not fit on the screen. It will generally be unusable in this
state, as important buttons and controls will also be off-screen - the
only thing you can do is close it by right-clicking on its taskbar
button.
The reason for this behaviour is that the list of remembered statuses
appears somewhere in the dialog, and, since no sanity check is done
with respect to the length of status messages, the combo box is sized
so as to be able to fully display the longest status message in the
list, which will be extremely wide. The dialog gets autosized so as to
fully contain the combo box, and thus the problem appears.
To reproduce (verified up to 2.4.1-1ubuntu2.1):
1) Run pidgin. Accounts are not necessary.
2) Right-click on the tray icon, mouse over "Change Status" and select "New"
3) Enter a very long title and message (in this case no spaces, that may or
may not matter), and click "Save & Use"
Now notice that:
1) Right-clicking on the tray icon and select "Preferences" produces a
dialog that is too wide.
2) Hovering over "Change Status" from the right-click menu produces a dialog
that is too wide.
3) Mousing over the tray icon provides a tool tip which is too wide.
What should happen: Pidgin should crop the above locations to a set
number of chars, with ellipses on the end!
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Apr 6 23:41:09 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ath_hal
Package: pidgin 1:2.4.0-1ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pidgin
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-15-generic x86_64
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