Re: [Gaim-devel] patch to add horz. scroll for editpane

[David F. <da...@d2...>]

On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 17:06, Luke Schierer wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 04:29:14PM -0700, David Fallon wrote:
> > Hi, I use a fairly narrow gaim window, and have run into the annoyance
> > that the editpane doesn't have a horizontal scrollbar - the attached
> > patch fixes it for the gtk 1.2 branch, and I can figure one out for the
> > HEAD branch if necessary. This seems to have been a deliberate decision
> > - I hope whoever made it is willing to compromise, as the patch makes it
> > automaticly appear/dissapear as necessarty. :) thanks... 
> 
> it was indeed made deliberately, instead of scrolling horizontally, gaim's edit box forces 
> the text to wrap. thus, if you expand your narrow edit pane vertically, you will see more 
> of the text.  the only way we could acceptably move to having a horizonaly scroll bar is if 
> the behavior was made optional. 
> luke

Erm. I believe we're discussing 2 different things. I'm referring to the
"Edit Buddies" tab on the main gaim window, where it lists the contacts
in a gtktree grouped by im system then group - this is where the horz.
scroll bar is missing (the text doesn't wrap, and shouldn't). I agree
entirely with the design decisions of the "edit box" for messages, where
there's no need for a horz. scroll since the text wraps. My apologies,
of course, if we indeed are discussing the same thing.

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