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Extend the text entry as user types longer stuff

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Domain
desktop

Research direction

The issue does not name a source file, test, or entry point. Start by locating the text-entry widget used by the wingpanel indicator and reproduce the fixed-size behavior while entering longer text; done means the entry visibly grows as the user types longer content.

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Description

It always stays same size hmpf

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Vala
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