Festival.Star wrote:
Etan Reisner schrieb:On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 11:24:24AM -0800, Some user wrote:I agree with the original post. I can't figure out why this would have been changed. I want my window to be whatever size I want it. Currently I can only see about 2 lines of text, then it switches to scroll at 4 lines. Very annoying if I want to see my whole message.How often are your messages longer than two lines? How often longer than four? When longer than four are they just longer or a lot longer? Would having the input area resize to half the available space or two-thirds of the available space be acceptable?-EtanAgain. Why not implementing both beahviours? I don't see any reason that would be in conflict with that. The user can decide which default size the message window has and he has the feature of auto resizing as well. Where is the problem?
I am not sure, not having looked at the code any time recently, but I would suspect, based on past endevours, that attempting to allow for both manual resizing and autoresizing would be a nightmare to implement.
If it could be implemented correctly, I suspect it would be the ideal solution.
Short of that, I see two options: we could have a larger cap on the growth (this would likely solve the usability issues for a significant number of those complaining), or we could make the auto-growth an option. While it is also theoretically possible to allow a user to set a default minimum size in preferences, I do not see us accepting that, it would be extra maintance for very very little gain.
I think that it is fair to say that both of these options are being *considered* but that Etan and others involved are attempting to avoid a hasty, knee-jerk decision.
luke
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