Fun Pidgin

I'm not good at this, so I'm sure I'm not going to ask this question correctly, but please bear with me.

I loaded funpidgin for win32. I'm running 2.4.1 in XPProSP2 [not 3!].

All of my chats take place in one conversation window. I have names/nicknames for the various chat partners running down the left side of the window.

The conversation pane contains two sections: the bit where you type [which is the bit that caused all of the fun in the first place] and the top bit where the most recent session history appears.

Immediately above that is a top bar, and in that top bar [I assume] should appear the buddy icon and something else related to the person you're chatting with; is the other thing an icon showing what protocol is being used?

I'm not sure because that top bar is so narrow that the icons appear as one-pixel-high smears.

Is there a setting somewhere, maybe in the gtk thing that I hear spoken of so often, that controls how tall that top bar is? This element that I'm calling the top bar is not the menu bar, this is between the menu bar and the top of the history portion of the conversation pane.

Any insight into this would be greatly appreciated, and if I'm asking this poorly please feel free to help educate me. I'm inexperienced with this but I'm not unwilling to learn.

Thank you,

JS