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Re: Please change the 2.4.0 input field's resize behaviour
by Luke Schierer-5
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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?
>>
>> -Etan
>>
>>
> Again. 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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> 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?
>>
>> -Etan
>>
>>
> Again. 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?
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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