A better guess, I'm not sure why it did not occur to me before. If you resize below what is required to display the buddy icon, it will be increased.
This should apply only to conversations, and not chats though (chats are more than 2 people) -- dimensions of the log and input boxes in chatwindow aren't remembered https://launchpad.net/bugs/19684 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
