Empathy status away, when idle it becomes idle, and when I move the mouse/press a key, it'll become Online, not away

[Arif Rahman Ibrahim]

Binary package hint: empathy

Like this:
I set the status to away
Leave the computer for around 5-10 minutes
Move the mouse / press a key
The status will be online, NOT away

This is annoying when I am away and someone use my computer

empathy:
  Installed: 2.28.1.1-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.28.1.1-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.28.1.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://kambing.ui.ac.id karmic-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.28.1-1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://kambing.ui.ac.id karmic/main Packages

[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)

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Are there any news about this bug? Has someone affected by this bug sent the report upstream? May you tell us the bug number? Thanks in advance.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

I found the upstream bug report and it is marked 'not a bug' https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=587457

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Per upstream comment
"That's something that got discussed a lot, and we decided to not encourage
users to lie on their presence. It's preferable to make presence easy to those
that use presence correctly than giving the possiblity to lie.

If you are on your computer but don't want to get disturbed, you should set
your presence to busy and not away."

[ColleenElizabeth (caudus)]

I understand it's bad to lie, but this isn't a tax return or a trial. Sometimes I just don't want people to know that I'm being a loser on a Friday night.

[zettabyte (dougvanhorn)]

"It's preferable to make presence easy to those
that use presence correctly than giving the possiblity to lie.

If you are on your computer but don't want to get disturbed, you should set
your presence to busy and not away."

Wow. Dealbreaker and uninstalled.