After quitting empathy the status icon doesn't return to its normal state but gets greyed out.

[Bashar]

Binary package hint: empathy

After quitting empathy the status icon doesn't return to its normal state but gets greyed out. Only after a restart does it get back to the normal red (switch like) icon. Pidgin in 9.04 didn't have this problem.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Dec 13 21:40:24 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: empathy 2.28.1.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.53-generic
SourcePackage: empathy
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

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?
 * Could you take a screenshot of the issue?

 This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Bashar (bashar)]

Yes it is reproducible, it happens every time I use empathy.
The status icon would normally look like screenshot-1. After I start empathy it changes to screenshot-2 and it stays like that as long as empathy is activated. After I quit [Chat>Quit from the Contacts list window] the icon changes to screenshot-3 when it should ideally go back to what it looked like in screenshot-1

[Ara Pulido (ara)]

I can confirm this bug. It happens to me as well.

[Brian Curtis (bcurtiswx)]

This is an indicator session problem. When you quit empathy and have no other sessions open it should go back to the "power" icon.

[Vish (vish)]

This is not a bug , the current behavior behavior is designed to behave as such: https://bugs.launchpad.net/indicator-session/+bug/432635/comments/25

"The current behaviour (in karmic RC) is to display the shutdown icon until your IM status has been set. Once empathy/pidgin connects and sets your status it will change to the status icon."

[Bashar (bashar)]

What is meant by session? Is it when other user/s are logged on?

[ubuntolo (ovitaerc)]

Vish, parhaps it's not a bug, but it's quite an annoying behaviour in my opinion, it makes the user unaware of the loaded/unloaded status of the IM client. Hope that a change will be considered.

[Vish (vish)]

For Lucid, the IM status and the session menu [systems shutdown menu] are separate.

The current implementation as mentioned in the bug 432635 was a temporary solution. It would probably be ported into Karmic as well , when the feature is completed in Lucid.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue is fixed in lucid now