Make message bubble wider with both image and long message

[piramiday]

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Bug description

when attaching images, most often small images, Signal makes reading a message uncomfortable by matching the text box width to the image width.
this means that messages with long lines -- that should be only a handful of lines if the text spanned the entire conversation width -- end up using only a few words per line and take up more than one screen.

Steps to reproduce

• send message with long lines
• Signal will display message normally if no image is attached 👍
• Signal will shrink message width, making it unnecessarily long, if an image is attached 👎

Actual result: the message barely fits in one screen if an image is attached.
Expected result: the message should still be comfortably readable even if an image is attached.

Screenshots

I've submitted this issue to Signal-Android, so I'm using the same screenshots -- the same happens on Signal Desktop.

example: small image, roughly 64x64 pixels

example: message displayed normally if by itself

example: message displayed poorly if small image is attached

Device info

normal Signal behaviour, observed on all Android and Desktop versions.

[piramiday]

any chance of fixing this? all around the world, thousands of miles are being scrolled every day for no reason because of this. 🌵

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[piramiday]

definitely still relevant! (also: not a "feature request" IMHO.)