[Pidgin] #4962: The message pane is too little

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#4962: The message pane is too little
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  Reporter:  Dedalus       |       Owner:        
      Type:  defect        |      Status:  closed
  Priority:  minor         |   Milestone:        
 Component:  pidgin (gtk)  |     Version:  2.4.0 
Resolution:  invalid       |    Keywords:        
   Pending:  0             |  
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Comment (by chckens):

 What I don't see is why the auto-resizing thing and ability to manually
 resize the box can't happily co-exist. The absolute maximum size for the
 text entry widget at present is 4 lines(?), which in some situations is
 apparently smaller than people would like.

 Why not allow people to resize it as big as they want? (up to a sensible
 threshold I guess, so some of the conversation widget is still visible)

 This of course leaves the question of what should happen once the message
 is sent. I don't think automatically resizing back to one-and-a-bit lines
 would be very friendly if the user has manually adjusted the input widget
 size. Auto-resizing should probably also still happen if the user-adjusted
 size is less than the maximum auto size (e.g. the user adjusted to two
 lines, then types three lines: the widget expands to three) So I think
 after sending a message the input widget should snap back to whatever the
 last size the user chose was.

 If all that makes no sense I could probably be persuaded to pseudo-code it
 :)

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