reducing the width of contact list disappears combobox

Yes and this only happens with the new themes.

I think I mishandled this bug the problem I face is that If I start empathy and the spinner is spinning and I reduce the width of the contact list the spinner hides, this does not happen with other themes, sorry for inconvenience.

I cant reproduce the problem you are facing marat are there any specific steps to reproduce this or this might be due to the placement of window controls?

I can't confirm the issue there either

Not sure why the theme task was opened!

Omer , as for your spinner bug , it happens in other themes as well ,it is an empathy bug too ;-) [See Bug #504408]

@Vish, did you even tried to reproduce the problem that I described? Its works fine with Human or clearlooks.

and for "Not sure why the theme task was opened!" I described above that I thought it was the other bug (the one that I face).

I can simply reproduce this if I change the system fonts size to 9px and reduce the width of chat list to minimum. btw this only happens with the new themes

Vish, this only happens with the new themes and when system font is 9px(might also happen with other fonts). But I am still not sure, can this be gtk issue?

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@Omer Akram, You opened a theme task for this bug and mentioned that your bug was different , and left the theme task still open.
If you have thought it was not a theme bug, task should have been closed , saves others the trouble of having to clean up after you!
Or you must mention why the task is open still, Which you hadnt! Hence i closed the bug.

Alteast, the second time you reopened with steps to reproduce to suspect it was a theme bug. Which is good.
If you are in bug-control you should be more careful with bugs , if you dont have time to properly work a bug, do fewer bugs and triage them properly. You can notice the empathy status change in this bug went to triaged , without even sending upstream or trying to debug the problem. [confirmed and triaged are not the same]

Have you tried to resize any other window and notice what happens?
Anyways, Try to resize a nautilus window horizontally. breadcrumbs will almost completely disappear , this is what happens with empathy too. [notice here the nautilus window does not restrict with the menubar, the menubar gets partially as well]
OTOH ,resize a GNOME Character Map window , the toolbar elements wont allow it to be reduced to anything smaller.

and this is not a theme bug.The theme uses the option:

style "menu-item"
{
 xthickness = 0

If this size is increased to 2 or greater than 2 this problem wont be noticed , since the menu items will have more space. and the wider menubar will prevent the window from becoming smaller.
This will happen for any theme which uses less padding[=0] for the menu items and changing this in the default theme is not the solution.

The problem here is Empathy allows the window to be resized to smaller size , and stops only when the _menubar_ size has been reached. Empathy needs to set the minimum size according to the widgets width it uses and not menubar size.
If Emapthy forces a size it would prevent the widget from disappearing.

@Omer Akram, Note , being in bug-control doesnt mean you are not allowed to make mistakes ;-)
But if one cleans-up the tags/status they've erred , it is easier for others.

Found the upstream bug report

this problem is 100% reproduce able in UNE as menubar is now in the panel. raising the priority.

Can't reproduce in Maverick. Is this still an issue?

pablomme, its still an issue, the difference now is that the maverick theme has changed.

Set the font size to 7 and resize the contacts window. It will make the combobox disappear.

I tested mine patch on natty. It turned out that does not work correctly. I made a new patch.

the issue is fixed upstream. we'll have the fix when a new version of empathy 2.33.x series is released.