[gaim-migrate @ 13972] This fixes the dancing conversation dialog when the typing icon appears and disappears with a relatively small system font. Additionally, it does less widget creation and destruction by creating a persistent GtkImage widget in the menubar which is merely painted with the appropriate stock icon. The most straightforward way I saw to solve this was add a "blank" menu icon to the stock icon system. committer: Tailor Script <tailor@pidgin.im>