gaim 2.0beta3:
When changing status with the pulldown-menu gaim tries to position the dropdown menu in such a way that the current status comes under the mouse-pointer. If the window-bottom is low, half of the status menu will be drawn off-screen, and you first need to scroll.
Upstream bug: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=235&atid=100235&func=detail&aid=1414923
has been closed, because they give a workaround: take http://gaim.sourceforge.net/gtkrc-2.0 as your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 . This makes the pulldown menu become a list (? i'm not into gtk) and that's always drawn upwards.
Can't gaim-upstream implement it in such a way that the list is always used for this functionality? The bottom of the gaim-window-list will very often be too low to display the dropdown menu, so the dropdown-menu seems inappropriate in it's current gtk-implementation.
If it can only be solved in .gtkrc: should ubuntu ship the proposed .gtkrc-2.0 ? Don't know how that influences other apps.
(I'm not willing to make a bugzilla account for each and every gnome app, and Ubuntu decides what .gtkrc-2.0 it ships, so I report in launchpad)
I think this should be rejected unless there's a compelling reason that Gaim should override the GTK+ default. This issue would probably be better argued with the GTK+ maintainers, as it affects all GTK+ apps. It just happens commonly with Gaim, as the status selector is at the bottom of the window, which many people align with the bottom of their screen.
That said, it's possible to have the .gtkrc changes apply to just this widget in Gaim.