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Bug 650778 - "Previous Conversations" window gets ever larger with Clean,Simple and Blue chat themes
"Previous Conversations" window gets ever larger with Clean,Simple and Blue c...
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: empathy
Classification: Core
Component: Archives
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: empathy-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-05-22 07:25 UTC by OrelEagle
Modified: 2011-10-27 01:14 UTC
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Description OrelEagle 2011-05-22 07:25:27 UTC
More details about this bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/756930

When I open a "Previous Conversations" window by right clicking on a contact, it gets infinitely larger in length, sometimes even making X restart.

This happens only with some chat themes.As a summary:

Ubuntu: no problem
Classic: no problem
Simple: expands to the right and removes window decorations
Clean: only expands
Blue: only expands


As you can see, using the "simple" theme also removes the window decorations (window title and borders). You can bring them back by running compiz --replace. This is however not the purpose of this bug report.
Comment 1 Guillaume Desmottes 2011-05-23 08:51:53 UTC
Seems to work fine here. Do you have that problem with only some contacts or with all of them?
Comment 2 OrelEagle 2011-05-24 20:38:27 UTC
Hello,

I have tested with the Simple and Blue themes, on around 10 different contacts from both MSN and Gtalk. No exception: the problem appears will all of them.

I think I forgot to mention that the version is 2.34.0, default on Ubuntu 11.04. Strangely I couldn't find it in the list for this bug report.
Comment 3 Chad Miller 2011-06-01 20:03:44 UTC
For me, it happens with:

Classic,
Blue,
Clean,
Simple.

Not with 

Ubuntu.


It happens with AIM contacts, Google Talk, Yahoo, and Zeroconf.

It seems as though the text container tries to expand to fit a miscalculation of minimum line width necessary to display some text.  The window expands, and more text is pulled up from a lower row, which forces (mis-)recalculation of minimum line width.  Repeat until all text utterances are on their own single lines.


Using 2.34.0-0ubuntu3
Comment 4 Danielle Madeley 2011-10-27 01:14:20 UTC
The Previous Conversations window has been replaced, so this will no longer occur. Thanks.