GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 583317
throbber/status message input widget disapper when contact list too narrow
Last modified: 2011-02-28 09:18:51 UTC
When the contact list is made more narrow, first the throbber and then the status message input widget disappear. This also means that if the contact list is initially smaller than default, the status message input seems to have disappeared after upgrade to 2.27.x and it was quite hard to find out why.
I can't reproduce that. Maybe a GTK bug?
I can reproduce it my debian laptop. Empathy 2.27.1 gtk 2.16.1 I use the inverted theme engine, which is very rare, so I doubt it is related to theming.
I can't reproduce it anymore on Ubuntu 9.04, Empathy 2.27.5, Gtk 2.16.1... Marking as NEEDINFO until we can reproduce it.
I still can make the throbber disappear, but the status message (input) widget is always visible at least.
Paul, can you tell us, how you reproduce this?
Well you need something that connects slow so the throbber is actually shown these days. Then I use the keybinding to resize Empathy and press two times to the right so that the space to the right of the presence message selector becomes too small to show the throbber. It is still reproducible for me, albeit a bit harder now that the throbber is not always shown.
This bug is very simple to reproduce. Change system fonts to droid 9px and then squeeze the contact list and see the magic.
*** Bug 613249 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 159810 [details] when using globalmenu contact list can be squeezed much more.
Ubuntu Netbook 10.10 is using global menus, as menubar wont be in the contact list. this bug can be hit quite often.
also reported at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/538963
What would be the solution for this? Would increasing the minimum width of the window be an option? Or a possible redesign of the status widget?
Created attachment 181689 [details] [review] Patch for fix bug. I fixed this bug. Please review my patch.
Created attachment 182051 [details] [review] Patch for fix bug. I tested mine patch on ubuntu natty. It turned out that does not work correctly. I made a new patch.
Merged to master and 2.34, thanks! This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report.