one more idea for adium

DiscoJoey · Post by **DiscoJoey** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 10:30 pm

you should be able to set how long your buddy list winder is i think this use to be in some adium and now i cant find it because my blist always goes the bottom of the screen and since i have my dock showing i can click on the last 3 buddys on my list even when i scroll down and it bugs me. just thought i would post anouther idea

Rita · Post by **Rita** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 12:36 pm

Prefences-->Appearance-->Fit vertically

I think that's what you're talking about.

Newtylicious · Post by **Newtylicious** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 10:35 pm

No, he wants a max length. So, uncheck fit vertically, and then you should be able to drag it to whatever size you want.

DiscoJoey · Post by **DiscoJoey** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 10:49 pm

Newtylicious wrote:No, he wants a max length. So, uncheck fit vertically, and then you should be able to drag it to whatever size you want.

ya have a little bar like with the width

Post by **jstamos** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 12:14 am

The reason max width is there is to accommodate long display names and the such and truncate them as necessary. This is not a problem in the realm of height.

DiscoJoey · Post by **DiscoJoey** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 4:41 am

but dont alot of you have large buddy lists? and they go to the button of the screen and have the dock cover the bottom few?

Post by **jstamos** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 4:56 am

DiscoJoey wrote:but dont alot of you have large buddy lists? and they go to the button of the screen and have the dock cover the bottom few?

The real bug, then, is that the automatic resizing doesn't take the dock into consideration.

I don't know if this actually happens when the list extends downwards that long (I've recently removed 100+ buddies) but it happens when unhiding offline contacts.

Post by **evands** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 5:16 am

Only if your dock is at the edge. Apple in her infinite wisdom doesn't let us know how far the dock extends... and most users do not have a dock to the edges, so would be upset with an automatically sized list which 'randomly' doesn't extend to the bottom of the screen, staying above the dock height instead.

FredAkbar · Post by **FredAkbar** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 5:35 am

I don't know about that. I would think that users could accept the contact list stopping at the Dock's height (even if their Dock isn't fully extended), especially if the alternative is the Dock overlapping the bottom of a window, which should never happen IMO. And don't most people have their Dock at full length? (I wouldn't know; my Dock is on the left.)

edit: wow, I must've missed your "most users don't have their Docks to the edges" statement, Evan. Hrm.

DiscoJoey · Post by **DiscoJoey** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 6:27 am

well im just saying there should be an opition you can check to have it etheir fit the screen or make it however like you want like width