Empathy starts with visible contact list

[Emmanuel Pacaud]

Binary package hint: empathy

Currently, on an up to date karmic, empathy starts and shows the contact list on the desktop. I think the contact list should be hidden on start, at least when empathy is started by the session manager.

There's an option for this (--hide-contact-list). Could it be used by the session manager ?

empathy:
  Installed: 2.27.92-1ubuntu2
  Candidate: 2.27.92-1ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 2.27.92-1ubuntu2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Emmanuel Pacaud (emmanuel-pacaud)]

By the way, I've just tried to launch empathy using --hide-contact-list, but it doesn't work. Empathy still shows the contact list on startup.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Emmanuel Pacaud (emmanuel-pacaud)]

Empathy 2.28.0.1 has a fix for this issue.