[Gtalk] empathy shows hidden contacts as online

[ASDFASDF]

Binary package hint: empathy

I was notified that my friend was online and I went to talk to him, but then he asked how did I know that he was online, because his status was set on "hidden". I checked my empathy contact list and contact was "green" with status "Available". I then opened gmail and really he was offline to me there just as it's supposed to be.

I looked for other occurrences of this bug but only found this thread -> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1291447

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Apr 15 11:08:13 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
Package: empathy 2.28.1.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=hr_HR.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=hr_HR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-21.59-generic
SourcePackage: empathy
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-21-generic x86_64
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2045): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2158): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (gnome-panel:2148): Gdk-WARNING **: /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.18.3/gdk/x11/gdkdrawable-x11.c:952 drawable is not a pixmap or window

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Thanks for taking time to report this bug. Empathy is just picking up the status that your friend has If he is hidden then he certainly is hidden. Empathy cant show him online if his client has set it to hidden. furthermore you could logout empathy and login again and see if that shows him offline.

[ASDFASDF (user-487-deactivatedaccount)]

Well that is why I reported the bug because he was "hidden" but empathy showed him as "available".
Anyway, if this happens again I will reopen this bug report.

[ASDFASDF (user-487-deactivatedaccount)]

Reopening, I just had this happen again, and I took a screenshot of it.
You can see that the "t" contact is hidden (offline) in gmail chat but online in empathy.
I use empathy only for Gtalk so it's not another protocol or something silly like that.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Can you please install the latest version of empathy and telepathy components from the telepathy ppa and see if this is still an issue for you
https://launchpad.net/~telepathy/+archive/ppa

[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, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!