reducing the width of contact list disappears combobox

[Marat Dyatko]

Binary package hint: empathy

See screenshot in attached file.

if I change the system fonts size to 9px and reduce the width of chat list to minimum

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Yes and this only happens with the new themes.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

I think I mishandled this bug the problem I face is that If I start empathy and the spinner is spinning and I reduce the width of the contact list the spinner hides, this does not happen with other themes, sorry for inconvenience.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

I cant reproduce the problem you are facing marat are there any specific steps to reproduce this or this might be due to the placement of window controls?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

I can't confirm the issue there either

[Vish (vish)]

Not sure why the theme task was opened!

Omer , as for your spinner bug , it happens in other themes as well ,it is an empathy bug too ;-) [See Bug #504408]

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

@Vish, did you even tried to reproduce the problem that I described? Its works fine with Human or clearlooks.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

and for "Not sure why the theme task was opened!" I described above that I thought it was the other bug (the one that I face).

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

I can simply reproduce this if I change the system fonts size to 9px and reduce the width of chat list to minimum. btw this only happens with the new themes

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Vish, this only happens with the new themes and when system font is 9px(might also happen with other fonts). But I am still not sure, can this be gtk issue?

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

see

[Vish (vish)]

@Omer Akram, You opened a theme task for this bug and mentioned that your bug was different , and left the theme task still open.
If you have thought it was not a theme bug, task should have been closed , saves others the trouble of having to clean up after you!
Or you must mention why the task is open still, Which you hadnt! Hence i closed the bug.

Alteast, the second time you reopened with steps to reproduce to suspect it was a theme bug. Which is good.
If you are in bug-control you should be more careful with bugs , if you dont have time to properly work a bug, do fewer bugs and triage them properly. You can notice the empathy status change in this bug went to triaged , without even sending upstream or trying to debug the problem. [confirmed and triaged are not the same]

Have you tried to resize any other window and notice what happens?
Anyways, Try to resize a nautilus window horizontally. breadcrumbs will almost completely disappear , this is what happens with empathy too. [notice here the nautilus window does not restrict with the menubar, the menubar gets partially as well]
OTOH ,resize a GNOME Character Map window , the toolbar elements wont allow it to be reduced to anything smaller.

and this is not a theme bug.The theme uses the option:

style "menu-item"
{
 xthickness = 0

If this size is increased to 2 or greater than 2 this problem wont be noticed , since the menu items will have more space. and the wider menubar will prevent the window from becoming smaller.
This will happen for any theme which uses less padding[=0] for the menu items and changing this in the default theme is not the solution.

The problem here is Empathy allows the window to be resized to smaller size , and stops only when the _menubar_ size has been reached. Empathy needs to set the minimum size according to the widgets width it uses and not menubar size.
If Emapthy forces a size it would prevent the widget from disappearing.

[Vish (vish)]

@Omer Akram, Note , being in bug-control doesnt mean you are not allowed to make mistakes ;-)
But if one cleans-up the tags/status they've erred , it is easier for others.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Found the upstream bug report

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

this problem is 100% reproduce able in UNE as menubar is now in the panel. raising the priority.

[pablomme (pablomme)]

Can't reproduce in Maverick. Is this still an issue?

[Vish (vish)]

pablomme, its still an issue, the difference now is that the maverick theme has changed.

Set the font size to 7 and resize the contacts window. It will make the combobox disappear.

[Robert Sajdok (ris)]

I tested mine patch on natty. It turned out that does not work correctly. I made a new patch.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

the issue is fixed upstream. we'll have the fix when a new version of empathy 2.33.x series is released.