Yes, so annoying, it was one of the reasons it was forked and the Carrier project started.
Thanks, Dhaval Scott Lerman <smler...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 6:00 AM, <kopete-devel-requ...@kde.org> wrote: >> Message: 3 >> Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:25:35 +0300 >> From: Dmitry Suzdalev <dimsuz...@gmail.com> >> Subject: [kopete-devel] [PATCH] Implement dynamic resizing of >> ChatTextEditPart (mattr's task) >> To: kopete-devel@kde.org >> Message-ID: <200812241625.35605.dim...@gmail.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >> >> Hello guys! :) >> >> This patch will make kopetechatwindow's text edit part to grow or shrink dynamically >> as users enters/removes text into it. >> It starts being single line and then if user presses Enter or pastes some text or >> whatever, it will grow as needed. Likewise it will shrink if text is deleted. >> >> Growing happens up to some maximum size - currently it's set to 200 px (I feel that >> to be comfortable) and then vertiacl scrollbar will be added. >> >> I tested it for some time and with some different Qt styles, seems to work ok. >> Ah, one question. I guess this is what can be called a feature and 4.2 is in feature >> freeze. So I can't commit it to trunk. What to do with this patch? :) >> >> Some notes: >> * Splitter is removed. >> * Currently I have hardcoded margins at top and bottom being 3px. I tried to find >> some way not to hardcode them, and get them from Qt, but didn't find a solution. We >> even had a conversation with some devs on #kde-devel about that and still no >> desirable solution was found. Initially text edit starts as single line, show it >> should look like QLineEdit. But even QLineEdit::sizeHint() has *hardcoded* margins in >> Qt sources. >> >> > >Please, please, please make this an option that can at least be turned >off, if not off by default. Pidgin implemented this feature a while >ago, and it was extremely annoying. There were a lot of angry users on >their message board because of it. > >-- >Scott Lerman >_______________________________________________ >kopete-devel mailing list >kopete-devel@kde.org >https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kopete-devel _______________________________________________ kopete-devel mailing list kopete-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kopete-devel
