Comment 23 for bug 1071345

It makes me anxious to upgrade my machine (to an Apple laptop) so I can run the one true god of chat clients: Adium.

And so I can have my dock at the bottom of the screen. And have a desktop that doesn't suck.

On May 12, 2013, at 2:53 PM, Wolter Hellmund <email address hidden> wrote:

> Its this new regressed design philosophy the entire Gnome team has
> adopted, they are taking customization away from the end-user like it
> was funny. Another example is the new wallpaper picker Background.
>
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> Title:
> empathy contacts list compact mode is missing in 3.6
>
> Status in Chat app, and Telepathy user interface:
> Confirmed
> Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Prior to upgrading to quantal, Empathy had a compact mode for the
> contacts list. This would show each contact on a single line that was
> just tall enough to display the contact's username. This way, I would
> be able to use my high resolution monitor to view all of my online
> contacts simultaneously.
>
> Under Empathy 3.6 on quantal, the option for a compact mode
> disappeared and each contact in the list takes about 3 times the
> vertical space needed to display the contact's username. Now even
> with my high resolution montor, I can only view about 1/3 of my online
> contacts at a time.
>
> Please bring back the compact mode.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
> Package: empathy 3.6.0.3-0ubuntu1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
> Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
> ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Thu Oct 25 10:43:27 2012
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-08-29 (422 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
> MarkForUpload: True
> SourcePackage: empathy
> UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-22 (2 days ago)
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