pidgin preferences window is too tall for netbooks, cannot see close/cancel buttons, cannot be resized to fit

I think this may be a dup for LP #295085

In the process of developing the Ubuntu Netbook Remix, with the smaller screens of netbooks in mind, I wrote some patches to make pidgin work with less pixels.

There are three places which make pidgin over 1024x600.
1. Preference window
2. Account Manager when choose protocol to "SILC"
3. Add Buddy Pounce by right clicking on a user.

Now, these patches originally used hard-coded changes, because we were only targeting smaller screens. But I've modified it to check the resolution dynamically.

I'll attach the patches below. Thanks.

Account Manager patch

Add Buddy pounce patch

Paul: do you think you can forward the patch to Upstream too? http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/TipsForBugReports

Dear Daniel,

I've linked it to upstream bug and attach the patches.

Thanks.

Sebastian/mpt: We need your guidance on whether the solution is acceptable by upstream or any laternatives you might have.

Note that I just wrote up some UI proposals to get some feedback from pidgin upstream. These were the result of a chat I had with Paul about possible no-scrollbar solutions.

http://pidgin.im/pipermail/devel/2009-February/007538.html

Upstream dup'd their bug to a different one in their trac system.

is there any reason why you add the scrollbars at all in the non small screen usecase? rather than having the policy change you could only use scrollbars when required to avoid having a frame due to the widget no?

This is very important to Notebook Remix so I've changed the priority and asked stevenk to assist.

Updated patch.
Only add scrolled window when screen height is <= 600

Looks fine to me for a jaunty hack, but just adding scrollbars is probably not a solution that upstream will accept. But it's an unintrusive patch, let's do that for jaunty.

Tentatively assigning to Steve

This bug was fixed in the package pidgin - 1:2.5.4-2ubuntu2

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pidgin (1:2.5.4-2ubuntu2) jaunty; urgency=low

  * 60_1024x600_gtkaccount.c.patch: Add scrolled bars into account dialog
    when screen height is less than 600. (LP: #305019)
  * 60_1024x600_gtkpounce.c.patch: Add scrolled bars into pounce window when
    screen height is less than 600
  * 60_1024x600_gtkprefs.c.patch: Add scrolled bars into preference window when
    screen height is less than 600

 -- Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) <email address hidden> Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:55:42 +0800

Tried to Export to Facebook in F-Spot with eeepc 1000HE net book and confirm and cancel buttons were below the screen.

^^^^^Running Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook Remix^^^^