[lucid] empathy window resizes while typing in IRC

[xteejx]

As stated in the title.

To reproduce:

* Join an IRC channel (may be the same for MSN/Yahoo, etc)
* Type a long message (longer than the window)

The input box does not open vertically as you would expect, but resizes the entire chat window.

Workaround: For any one facing this, the workaround is to not let the username of any contact in the IRC, MUC ellipsized i.e. strech contact list if you have to.
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[Javier Jardón (jjardon)]

I can't confirm this bug here (lucid and empathy 2.29.5.1)

[Eric Hickman (enhickman)]

Teej :
Do you mean:

you expect a scroll bar to be introduced into the input box when a sentence is longer than the input box? With all window panes staying the same size.

However what really happens is that the input box grows vertically to fit the space and the chat window pane shrinks vertically

and so the bug is that the input box grows instead of using a scrollbar?

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[xteejx (xteejx-deactivatedaccount)]

To clarify:

I expected the input box to wrap-around and either grow vertically, or have a scrollbar, yes.
The window should not resize because it is being typed into.
i.e. the input box grows horizontally to fit the typed text in, but in doing this forces the whole window itself to grow, which is wrong.

If this is not reproducible, may be a metacity or X issue, so will apport-collect this in.

Will report this upstream as well.

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[Omer Akram (om26er)]

can you please confirm if its fixed in empathy 2.29.6 as I can't reproduce this in empathy 2.29.6

[xteejx (xteejx-deactivatedaccount)]

Yup, empathy 2.29.6-0ubuntu1, still occurs.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

@Teej, I faced this in empathy 2.29.90 and now with 2.29.91 i cannot reproduce this can you please try this again?

[Matthew Pirocchi (matthew-pirocchi)]

@Omer, I can confirm this in Empathy 2.29.92 (Lucid Alpha 3 with latest updates)

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I have added the workaround in the description of the bug report