Typing notification in empathy doesn't work for XMPP (google talk and jabber)

[ignorant]

Binary package hint: empathy

When a gtalk contact is typing to me in a chat, empathy doesn't notify me of that. When an MSN contact is typing, I can see the green icon in front of the contact name turn into a "user is typing" icon, so I guess it's a bug specific to gtalk accounts. I have not tested other accounts besides Google Talk and MSN.
Empathy version: The default jaunty but also version 2.27.3-2ubuntu1~ppa9.04+1 from the ppa.

[Volker Westphal (volker-westphal)]

To be more precise: When empathy is used as a Google talk client on one side of a chat session, typing notification is broken for both peers. It seems that empathy neither displays this type of notification nor sends such information to the remote side.

[Richard J. Turner (richard-zygous)]

It looks like typing notifications are broken for all XMPP chats - I see not typing notifications when chatting to people via a Jabber server.

[Brian Curtis (bcurtiswx)]

Thanks for your bug report and helping to make Ubuntu a better place. This bug has been pushed upstream and can be seen at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=593083 . We would recommend following there and commenting there if there is anything the devs need from you.

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

This is an XMPP issue, not just googletalk. I am seeing this using jabber between Jaunty's pidgin and empathy on both karmic and lucid.

The upstream bug says (from Will Thompson):
"This was a bug/limitation in Gabble. I fixed it in telepathy-gabble 0.9.3:

• Allow sending chat state to contacts whose capabilities we don't know,
  such as invisible Google Talk users (wjt)

I didn't realise at the time that it was also an issue for visible Google Talk
users: I think they changed the capabilities they report or something.

This fix wasn't backported to 0.8.x."

So the fix should maybe be backported for lucid, or the new version brought in.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the bug has been fixed upstream, would be nice to get fixed in lucid too

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue is fixed in lucid

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

Per https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=593083#c7 this is now fixed.