Hi Etan, thanks for the reply.
Etan Reisner wrote: >> I find that the change introduced in 2.4.0 to the input field's resize >> behaviour makes using Pidgin very, very awkward indeed. I regularly >> send multi-line messages and being able to see the outgoing message in >> its entirety is a desirable feature for me. Frankly, I'm struggling to >> see any benefit at all for users in the new implementation. > > Do you really regularly send IMs that are longer than four full lines? Yes, very often. I've got several years of logs I can analyze if you'd like hard stats. There will be a mixture of paragraphs that flow, unbroken, to more than four full lines and messages containing anywhere from several to many explicit linefeeds. > Are > these IMs something other than normal text (i.e. code snippets)? Are these > longer IMs routinely five lines, six lines, some larger number, unbounded? Messages I exchange with colleagues run from one character to, I expect, a dozen lines. Code snippets, exception stacktraces, lists of instructions, XML, problem descriptions etc.. They're ultimately bounded by the MSN protocol's limit on message size. I don't know what that limit might be but do hit it occasionally. Looking at my current Pidgin 2.3.1 window I can see I have 12 lines visible in the input field and 40 lines of conversation visible (with, as it happens, 132 chars per line). > Were you really happier having to either constantly resize the input area > to accomodate these larger messages and then back down again to a normal > size, or happier with an average of wasted space? Really much happier with what you consider "wasted space". I wouldn't have filed a report otherwise ;-) We clearly have different ideas on what's "normal". I never found myself constantly resizing anything. Hardly ever, in fact. I guess that suggests 10 to 12 lines is, for me, enough to give sufficient context to whatever I'm currently typing. > Is there some middle ground that would serve your purpose and yet provide > the benefits of the cureent automatically resizing input area. IMHO your premise is flawed. I don't see any benefit at all in an auto-resizing area. To me, it's too small and the auto-resizing is distracting and irritating. YMMV. Regards. -- Mark Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Support mailing list [email protected] http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
