Mark Scott wrote:
Kevin Stange wrote:Mark Scott wrote: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).Is this a maximized window?No, not at all. I seldom maximize windows. I mostly use a laptop with a 1920x1200 screen and my IDE is the only thing that's routinely maximized. The screen's aspect ratio simply makes most other maximized windows look 'strange'.My current Pidgin window turns out to be 887x957 pixels, including window manager decorations. That's probably an average size.I would wager that most Pidgin users don't keep their IM windows this large most of the time. A lot of the changes in this vein were motivated by the idea of making the conversation work better at smaller sizes and may have failed to consider users that have extremely large windows.Genuine interest: you consider ~800x100 to be extremely large? It feels just right to me :-SRegards.
Since I find myself using pidgin today, instead of finch, I thought I'd chime in here, I tend to use a window size of 646x569. Still, the default of about 2 lines is about all I would want to display most of the time anyway. The only times I'd grow an input area would be for sending a code snippet over IM, which really isn't an ideal thing to be doing to start with.
luke
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