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Bug 687351 - empathy contacts list compact mode is missing in 3.6
empathy contacts list compact mode is missing in 3.6
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 684199
Product: empathy
Classification: Core
Component: Artwork
3.6.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: empathy-maint
empathy-maint
: 689229 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-11-01 16:00 UTC by Bilal Shahid
Modified: 2012-12-04 12:48 UTC
See Also:
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Description Bilal Shahid 2012-11-01 16:00:53 UTC 
Originally reported at:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1071345

Prior to upgrading to quantal, Empathy had a compact mode for the contacts list.  This would show each contact on a single line that was just tall enough to display the contact's username.  This way, I would be able to use my high resolution monitor to view all of my online contacts simultaneously.

Under Empathy 3.6 on quantal, the option for a compact mode disappeared and each contact in the list takes about 3 times the vertical space needed to display the contact's username.  Now even with my high resolution montor, I can only view about 1/3 of my online contacts at a time.

Please bring back the compact mode.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: empathy 3.6.0.3-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 25 10:43:27 2012
InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-08-29 (422 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: empathy
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-22 (2 days ago)
Comment 1 Richard J Turner 2012-11-05 10:00:08 UTC 
I too found this to be a problem when testing a GNOME 3.6 Live CD. It actually makes the contacts list far less useful.

Our company appends people's telephone extension numbers to their names, so we can use the contact list as a quick way to lookup people's extensions. Doing so takes considerably more scrolling, and is therefore much less convenient, without Compact Mode.
Comment 2 a 2012-11-29 10:19:36 UTC 
Found this quite annoying as well.

Useful options to reduce size of window:
- option to set font size used to display user names
- be able to set size of user avatars
- ability turn of display of avatars completely
- or a 'compact' option, if above controls are too fine-grained.
Comment 3 Guillaume Desmottes 2012-11-29 11:10:56 UTC 
*** Bug 689229 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Robert Roth 2012-12-04 12:48:44 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 684199 ***