Overlaps in UI elements of conversation window.

[ao2]

Hi,

I noted that in some situation there are some overlaps in UI elements of conversation window, they are quite unpleasant. I do not know if on can avoid such behaviour with GtkPaned?, so I ask here.

See the attached image to see what I am referring to.

Thanks,

Antonio Ospite.

[lschiere]

Sean, you probably know GTK+ best of us, can we avoid this other than setting a minimum size on the windows?

[ao2]

If you will ever consider retouching the conversation window layout, please take into account also a solution like that one from emesene:

http://sourceforge.net/dbimage.php?id=119552

Maybe with a fixed height input textarea, one can workaround the overlapping problems.

Bye, Antonio.

[seanegan]

For the buddy icon, we should scale it down if we don't have enough vertical room for this. This might have an unpleasant side-effect in that the left margin of the entry text will shift.

The toolbar is harder, but we should be able to replace icons that won't fit with an arrow, similar to how gtknotebook does it.

[ao2]

So, do you think that a fixed layout for the bottom frame can't be an option for the conversation window?

I also tought that in the above case a placeholder for the buddy icon should be used if the user specified no icon. But, I know, a no-buddy-icon icon has a slightly different meaning that having no icon at all. What do you think about that?

Thanks,

Antonio.

[seanegan]

Targetting this for 2.0.1, as it should be easy to fix at the same time as #214

[seanegan]

How do you feel about http://pidgin.im/~seanegan/convwindowmock-2.png ?

[seanegan]

Retargetting this, and other conversation UI changes, to 2.0.2, as they require string changes.

[seanegan]

re-targetting conversation UI changes to 2.1.0

[ao2]

Replying to seanegan:

Retargetting this, and other conversation UI changes, to 2.0.2, as they require string changes.

Yes, I like the one-line input field.

Maybe the buddy icon position is not ideal, but anyway a very good compromise to have a clean and beauty input area, thanks.

Bye,

ao2

[seanegan]

I've fixed this for 2.1.0

[seanegan@…]

(In [10f8a37fba94c3e1bf214c186e1cca383b57a381]) Turns off 'allow_shrink' on conversation windows. Fixes #506