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[Renato Silva <951289@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Title:
  Annoying tab ellipsizing in Pidgin

Status in Pidgin:
  Unknown
Status in pidgin package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Imagine you use Pidgin for IRC and you access a considerable amount of
  channels so that your tab labels need to be scrolled horizontally for
  moving between channels. Then you think of disposing the tab labels
  one below other on the left, so you get more space and get rid of
  scrolling. However you can't see the complete tab labels because they
  often get ellipsized at a small width.

  This is very annoying and saving horizontal space is no excuse, even
  800x600 screens can hold a sane window with reasonable-width tab
  labels in the left, chat user list in the right and chat messages in
  the middle.

  I have patched Pidgin simply by increasing the max width tolerance for
  triggering the ellipsizing. That is, the only difference is that
  instead of labels about 12 chars, you can put ones about 30 which is a
  reasonable length, for example for long channel names and email
  addresses.

  Below are screenshots of how it looks like normally and after
  patching, and also an 800x600 screenshot. Take your own conclusions.

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