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Bug 634701 - Contact list should autoresize vertically according with the number of contacts showed
Contact list should autoresize vertically according with the number of contac...
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: empathy
Classification: Core
Component: Contact List
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
: ---
Assigned To: empathy-maint
empathy-maint
: 666381 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-11-12 18:45 UTC by Alessio Bolognino
Modified: 2018-05-22 14:27 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
Mockup for dynamic resizing of the Empathy contact list. (2.78 KB, text/plain)
2013-10-29 20:53 UTC, Chris Davis 		Details

Description Alessio Bolognino 2010-11-12 18:45:59 UTC 
Contact list should autoresize vertically according with the number of contacts showed. That's it. Adium does this by default (IIRC), Pidgin has a unofficial plugin that lets you do that, it's very useful IMHO. The Contact List content is very dynamic, sometimes the window is too short and you have to scroll to see who's online, sometimes you only have one online contact and 9/10th of the window is simply white space.
Comment 1 Guillaume Desmottes 2010-11-15 10:12:19 UTC 
I don't know Adium very well, could you tell us more about that? How does it
handle if you have, say, 100 contacts to display?
Comment 2 Alessio Bolognino 2010-11-15 12:38:33 UTC 
Obviously the window height must never exceed the screen height.
Comment 3 Dmitry Misharov 2011-11-22 00:24:07 UTC 
It would be great feature! I'm requesting too.
Comment 4 Guillaume Desmottes 2012-01-25 15:59:09 UTC 
*** Bug 666381 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Chris Davis 2013-10-29 20:53:29 UTC 
Created attachment 258488 [details]
Mockup for dynamic resizing of the Empathy contact list.
Comment 6 Chris Davis 2013-10-29 20:53:47 UTC 
I've created a box-character mockup that (I hope) captures the basic idea here.  It should be attached.

I know what the standard values for padding/margin between elements are in GNOME (I could base the preset sizes on them), but I'm having trouble finding information on dynamic resizing in the HIG.

Could someone confirm if adding dynamic resizing to the Empathy contacts list (as described in the mockup) would be appropriate?  If it is, I'll get to work on a patch.
Comment 7 Antonio Ospite 2013-11-12 08:50:22 UTC 
FWIW I'd vote no to this, auto-resizing windows is just wrong and auto-resizing elements would make the application UI less regular and predictable. Just my 2c.
Comment 8 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-22 14:27:22 UTC 
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