Empathy is almost impossible to set as a startup application
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Empathy |
Invalid
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Wishlist
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|||
One Hundred Papercuts |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
empathy (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Low
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs | ||
gnome-session (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: empathy
Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)
Empathy 2.28.1.1
Since I like to have my messenger clients running whenever I'm online I wanted to set that to happen automaticaly. So here's what I tried:
* I looked in the preferences of Empathy, and appart from the confusing entry "Automatically connect on startup" described in bug #322314 there is nothing about connecting.
* I looked under 'System > Preferences > Startup applications', there is no entry for Empathy so Itry to make one...
* The file browser starts in my home directory so I assume there's a good reason for that and try to find an entry there for empathy. Sadly there's no entry there called empathy.
* Luckily I know a bit about this Ubuntu thing and the Gnome Desktop so I look into the .gnome2 directory. Finally a directory called Empathy. But sadly that only has log files in it.
* Thinking I'm a bit savvy I navigate to /usr/share/empathy ... but again there is no file I can point to to start empathy ...
* Now I'm getting annoyed, nothing useful in /usr/share/
* Nothing in /usr/share/gnome2
* /usr/bin/empathy looks promising - maybe I'll be lucky this time.
Now I'm thoroughly annoyed at this stupid system which doesn't seem to have any standard way of starting an application!
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 70577d17832e34b
CheckboxSystem: b845c366ea09c60
Date: Sun Nov 8 08:47:59 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: empathy 2.28.1.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
LANG=en_DK.UTF-8
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: empathy
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
(gnome-
(gnome-
(polkit-
(nautilus:2131): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences
(gdu-notificat
Changed in empathy (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs) |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
milestone: | none → maverick-round-3-chat |
Changed in empathy: | |
importance: | Unknown → Wishlist |
status: | Unknown → Invalid |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
milestone: | maverick-round-3-social-networking → nt2-social-networking |
Can I suggest that until/unless a long term solution is found we set the dialog at 'System > Preferences > Startup Application > Startup Programs > Add' to open by default to /usr/bin? That seems to be the most reliable solution for now. This 'adding startup applications' has in reality been a general bug for years now. Surely it's time to do something?