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Bug 567584 - Presence chooser is monstrously ugly and annoying
Presence chooser is monstrously ugly and annoying
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 569449
Product: empathy
Classification: Core
Component: Contact List
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: empathy-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-01-13 11:45 UTC by Jonny Lamb
Modified: 2009-02-02 12:49 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

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An example (14.78 KB, image/png)
2009-01-13 11:46 UTC, Jonny Lamb 		Details

Description Jonny Lamb 2009-01-13 11:45:02 UTC 
When the Empathy contact list is a reasonable size then the presence chooser combobox (it looks more like a menu though, hmm) doesn't expand in width. This results in a hideous widget.

It's also really annoying to use because if you press the widget in the very right you have to move the mouse all the way to the left to actually change presence.

Pidgin does this right.
Comment 1 Jonny Lamb 2009-01-13 11:46:04 UTC 
Created attachment 126344 [details]
An example

Here's a screenshot I just took of it failing.
Comment 2 Frederic Peters 2009-01-13 12:10:16 UTC 
EmpathyPresenceChooser is a GtkToggleButton, that will display a popup menu when active; I wonder why it was done this way.
Comment 3 Xavier Claessens 2009-01-13 12:45:48 UTC 
This comes from Gossip. I think the reason is because it is the same GtkMenu than in the status icon's context menu. I agree that could be changed.
Comment 4 Danielle Madeley 2009-01-27 13:06:47 UTC 
I'm on the case!
Comment 5 Xavier Claessens 2009-02-02 12:48:43 UTC 
Let's close this as dup of bug #569449, where the work is being done.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 569449 ***