The conversation window shows my account name in a right pane like an IRC chat window (only happens with MSN contacts)

[Ricardo Pérez López]

Binary package hint: empathy

When I start conversation with an MSN contact, the conversation
window looks like an IRC chat window, i.e. my account name is shown in a right
pane like if it were a users list. It only happens with MSN contacts.

Using telepathy-butterfly 0.3.4 and empathy 2.27.2:

$ apt-cache policy telepathy-butterfly empathy
telepathy-butterfly:
  Installed: 0.3.4-1~ppa9.04+1
  Candidate: 0.3.4-1~ppa9.04+1
  Version table:
 *** 0.3.4-1~ppa9.04+1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.3.3-1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages
empathy:
  Installed: 2.27.2-1ubuntu1~ppa9.04+1
  Candidate: 2.27.2-1ubuntu1~ppa9.04+1
  Version table:
 *** 2.27.2-1ubuntu1~ppa9.04+1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.26.1-1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages

[Olivier Le Thanh Duong (olethanh)]

Hello,

thanks for reporting this bug. This is a bug in empathy triggered by the new version of butterfly. This is due to the nature of MSN conversation which can contain any numbers of users. So when there is two users the right pane quickly show up then hide but it doesn't know what to do when there is only one contact apparently.

I have filed a bug on Empathy bugzilla about this.

[Olivier Le Thanh Duong (olethanh)]

Forgot the url of the empathy bug :
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=585462

[Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo)]

Binary package hint: empathy

When I start conversation with an MSN contact, the conversation
window looks like an IRC chat window, i.e. my account name is shown in a right
pane like if it were a users list. It only happens with MSN contacts.

Using telepathy-butterfly 0.3.4 and empathy 2.27.2:

$ apt-cache policy telepathy-butterfly empathy
telepathy-butterfly:
  Installed: 0.3.4-1~ppa9.04+1
  Candidate: 0.3.4-1~ppa9.04+1
  Version table:
 *** 0.3.4-1~ppa9.04+1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.3.3-1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages
empathy:
  Installed: 2.27.2-1ubuntu1~ppa9.04+1
  Candidate: 2.27.2-1ubuntu1~ppa9.04+1
  Version table:
 *** 2.27.2-1ubuntu1~ppa9.04+1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.26.1-1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages

[Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo)]

I opened the telepathy-butterfly because the issue only happens with MSN contacts. I don't know what's the right task.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

comment from upstream:

"thanks for reporting this bug. This is a bug in empathy triggered by the new
version of butterfly. This is due to the nature of MSN conversation which can
contain any numbers of users. So when there is two users the right pane quickly
show up then hide but it doesn't know what to do when there is only one contact
apparently.
"

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

closing the telepathy-butterfly task since it doesnt belong there.

[Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo)]

Not a telepathy bug, said an upstream developer.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

cannot reproduce in empathy 2.29.5 it might have fixed before as the reported bug is against empathy 2.27.2