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

[Luke S. <lsc...@re...>]

On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 05:13:53PM -0700, David Fallon wrote:
> 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.

OH, we were indeed discussing different things. yes, a horizontal scroll bar would 
be acceptable there. 
luke



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