[Psi-devel] Avatar Size

[Remko Troncon]

On 01 May 2006, at 9:50, Norman Rasmussen wrote:

> but the chat dialog is a useful place to put a eay to
> find menu option for it.

Will you be changing it so much that you need it that close ? Sounds  
more like a 'set once' setting.

An avatar dynamically growing with the size of the lineedit is not  
possible because of aspect ratios. If the height of the avatar  
increases, the width needs to increase as well, which would either  
mean shrinking lineedit (giving nasty re-layouting of text), or  
horizontally expanding the chat window (what i wouldn't expect  
happening either).
The way around is more feasible: have a global avatar size, and make  
the initial line-edit expand to fit that size. Personally, i would  
like to keep the size a hidden option, and keep the avatars very  
small by default: they are still recognizable (which is the main goal  
of having avatars IMO), and if you want to see the full picture, just  
look at the tooltip of the contact.

cheers,
Remko