New chat windows don't open upon new incoming message

[Eric Williams]

Binary package hint: empathy

When I receive a new message from a contact who does not currently have a chat tab/window open, no indication appears other than their name blinking in the Contact List. Whether this is a "feature" or bug, it should be fixed. Standard behavior is to open new chat window upon incoming message.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: empathy 2.32.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-24.42-genusername 2.6.35.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-24-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Jan 16 21:18:52 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.utf8
SourcePackage: empathy

[frizzle21 (frederik-nnaji)]

hi Eric,
i see your point, it is a question of individual preference, and so there is a workaround already in the preferences. The workaround otoh will stop your incoming chat messages from being shown in the messaging menu :P

TBH it is not quite easy to discover, because this feature:
* is hidden in a sub-tab (the wrong one) of the preferences window
* is therefore hidden behind a semantically different title
* is activated by deactivating an other feature, i.e. doesn't have its own switch

i marked this bug a duplicate of #652568
thanks for raising the awareness of this problem again, please don't refrain from reporting any other issues you may encounter!

[frizzle21 (frederik-nnaji)]

workaround - open messages in new window
how?
simply untick "show incoming messages in the messaging menu [ ] "