Please change the 2.4.0 input field's resize behaviour

[matejcik neasi]

(sorry for breaking the thread, but it is too much hassle to reply properly when i'm not even subscribed in the first place)

Hello everyone,
i was following the discussion about input field resizing, and i am one of those who want resizability back.
But for quite the opposite reason than most - and i don't think anyone raised this point before - i would like to make the input field _smaller_. Yup, that's right, only one line for me, thankyouverymuch.

I use pidgin for instant messaging - that is, quick exchange of quick messages. Most of my messages are less than one line, because i tend to keep the conversation window short but wide. It sits on top of my screen, say ten lines of history and one line of input, 1024x380. Automatic resizing is fine, it is actually very helpful, but two lines by default is waste of space.

So, from me, +1 to configurable minimum and maximum size, as long as it is possible to set minimum of one line!

A short trip to pidgin history reveals that the default was always two lines. Back in gaim 0.60-or-something, it was actually possible to configure input height. But alas, fixed minimal height was some 18 pixels - way too much. In some quite recent version of gaim/pidgin, you could resize the input as you liked, provided that you liked it bigger. Most recent versions didn't have this minimal size restriction, and for a time it was good.
But now i'm stuck with one extra useless line again.

Next time you work with minimum size constraints, please bear in mind that at least one of your devoted users likes his stuff small ;)

regards
m.

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[Keith Brown-7]

Festival.Star wrote:
 > I agree with your aggregation. If there is no possibility to have both
 > features. I can only see two options.
 > 1) Having an option to make auto resizing available or not (would
 > change to manual resizing)
 > 2) Letting the user decide which amount of default lines he woud like
 > I would prefer option number one.

Personally I always liked the manual resizing method. I like my windows
to be exactly in a certain way, and if I can't have it that way, my OCD
flares up. I wasn't so hot on the autoresizing, because I'd have my IM
windows in a line, and I'd see the one have a different size input than
the others, and that bugged me while it was that way (was minor, since
as soon as it sent, all was back to normal). Still, I could keep things
how I preferred them, which had 4 lines in the input box, which worked
perfectly for how I normally do things. In come the new single line as
default method (others report it showed 2 lines, when, I only ever saw
it show a single line), just threw things out of kilter, and made things
constantly change. Bad for OCD.

Also, I use a tablet PC, and my dominant hand has some permanent issues,
so having a larger text input area made it really easy for me to click
into the input box. I know anywhere in the window is good enough for
focus, but if you miss and select text, or hit another button, it is
annoying.

Basically, all I am saying is, can you make it an option, so us freaks
can have the old way? I am not against change, and like that you guys
are experimenting, but, forcing a change is not good, since you
basically expect it to be a one size fit all. What I've found best in my
own work, is when introducing a change, have it be optional, so people
can revert. Even if the person has to change the config file in a text
editor, giving the option, somehow, works to make everyone happy.

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