Feature Requests item #1564865, was opened at 2006-09-25 02:40 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by lschiere You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350235&aid=1564865&group_id=235
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: None Group: None >Status: Closed Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Joe (sddfdds) Assigned to: Tim Ringenbach (marv_sf) Summary: Enforce maximum width for tabs Initial Comment: This mostly applies to people who use "Left" or "Right" placement for tabs. If someone IMs you and their screen name or alias is longer than the current longest tab you have open, it causes the tabs to widen to accomodate the new tab's width. This causes gaim to sometimes lock up as it has to redraw each open windows text that wraps multiple lines, since the width of the conversation portion of the window has changed. This sometimes causes gaim to completely freeze and it needs to be forcefully quit. So basically I was wondering if it would be possible to have a setting for maximum tab width (perhaps this can already be done/could be allowed through gtkrc hackery?) Thanks ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Luke Schierer (lschiere) Date: 2007-04-12 12:16 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=28833 Originator: NO As we are closing this tracker, please submit any feature request that is still valid to http://developer.pidgin.im. Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Joe (sddfdds) Date: 2006-10-21 02:43 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1265477 Also, I'm not entirely requesting this feature (because if it isn't available already, I doubt it'd get added) but more wondering if it's already possible by tweaking GTK. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Joe (sddfdds) Date: 2006-10-21 02:38 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1265477 Yea, currently using beta4, and there does appear to be a (somewhat large) miximum width, but what I was thinking of is a customizable one (i.e. somewhere around the 5 letters that most of my contacts are aliased to) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Luke Schierer (lschiere) Date: 2006-10-12 21:16 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=28833 sddfdds: have you tried the 2.0.0 betas? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Laager (rlaager) Date: 2006-10-10 17:57 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=156487 I don't use side tabs, so I don't know much about this directly. If the current width limiting behavior sucks, it definitely should be fixed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Joe (sddfdds) Date: 2006-10-10 16:07 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1265477 ...built into gaim (got cut off there) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Joe (sddfdds) Date: 2006-10-10 16:05 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1265477 Sorry to re-open this, but I don't think I was perfectly clear. Although I did mention possible crashes as one reason to have maximum tab widths, I meant this more as a general customization option. And I didn't mean an already present (but very large) maximum tab width. For example, most of the people I talk to regularly, and channels I frequent, are aliased down to 4-6 letter names or so. So if someone with a much longer name IM's me, it changes the size of the text area of the window (referring to left or right placement of tabs) and when this happens, gaim has to pause to redraw the windows that have large wraparounds of text to fit the new widths (this seeming to be the cause of the occasional but not easily reproducible crash). So what I mean for my request to be, is a customizable maximum tab width, shorter than the current maximum bui ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Laager (rlaager) Date: 2006-10-08 19:13 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=156487 There is a maximum for tab width. If this is still an issue in 2.0.0beta3.1 (or beta4 if we get that released shortly), please use GDB to get a backtrace. See http://gaim.sourceforge.net/gdb.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: John Gill (osbjmg) Date: 2006-09-25 14:12 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1035457 Tab width being limited is a great idea! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350235&aid=1564865&group_id=235 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Gaim-features mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gaim-features