Empathy steals Pidgin online status...

[Jan Schürmann]

Binary package hint: empathy

i normally use Pidgin, because it has more options and a little bit better interface, so i have Pidgin running and Empathy is really closed (not closed to tray) but sometimes when a new user comes online and sends me a message Empathy starts and shows up. then Pidgin is disconnected from that service the user is on.
that's really annoying because i don't have the functionality and another log in this case.

[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)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue is probably rather a mission control one though

[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)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

* Is this reproducible?
* If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

when empathy is fully closed then how can it start automatically?

[Jan Schürmann (visionfactory.net)]

i don't know how it starts automatically but it was fully closed, not only minimized or with the close button, i closed from the menu.

it have to be reproducable, because it happens not only one time.
it's a bit time gone since i have Empathy installed and now it's uninstalled because of this bug. but i had the same accounts in both programs but used Pidgin, in my memory Pidgin was minimized to tray and Empathy was fully closed then when a message from a friend comes in Empathy starts and shows up the chat window...

[David Barth (dbarth)]

Is that still an issue? Can you detail a procedure to reproduce the issue, with an without the me menu btw, this way we'll know if it's related or not. Thanks

[Alessio Bolognino (themolok)]

I think it has to do with mission-control, I have the same problem but it's not easily reproducible.

[Adam Collard (adam-collard)]

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information (steps to follow to reproduce the bug)? Thanks!

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information. steps to reproduce this bug would be really helpful if the problem still exists in Maverick.