[lucid] opening a chat window requires a triple-click

[Matt Drake]

Binary package hint: empathy

to open a chat window from the contact list, the contact needs to be triple-clicked, rather than the expected double-click

this started when i upgraded to lucid

- when empathy starts, you are able to launch chats by double clicking on contacts
- highlight a contact using a single click. double clicking on a contact should now do nothing. when it's in this state, there's two things you can do:
          - triple click a contact. this will open a chat window. it will also restore the expected double click behavior
          - single click another contact. the expected double click behavior is restored.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Dec 12 23:59:04 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: empathy 2.29.3-1ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-7.10-generic
SourcePackage: empathy
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-7-generic x86_64

[Brian Curtis (bcurtiswx)]

Thanks for your bug report and helping to make Ubuntu better. I can not reproduce this issue. Specifically, what are you using? i.e. jabber, gtalk, aim, YIM, MSN?

[Matt Drake (mattduckman)]

the protocol doesn't matter, this happens on the contact list

however, i figured out some interesting behavior that i didn't notice until now:
- when empathy starts, you are able to launch chats by double clicking on contacts
- highlight a contact using a single click. double clicking on a contact should now do nothing. when it's in this state, there's two things you can do:
          - triple click a contact. this will open a chat window. it will also restore the expected double click behavior
          - single click another contact. the expected double click behavior is restored.

so it seems single clicking on contacts puts empathy in some weird state that requires another single click to be returned back to a normal state. i guessing the triple click gets translated into a single click followed by double click, so that's why it has the same behavior as such.

if you can reproduce this, i'll modify the title and the summary

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

This was not an empathy bug it also existed in software-center but now its fixed