Favorite channels disappear after you leave the channel

[Paul Hoell]

Steps to reproduce:

Join an IRC channel in empathy
Mark as favorite via the menu - the channel is visible in the Rooms menu as favorite
Leave the channel
Rejoining via F5 or the Rooms menu doesn't work, because the menu is empty of all favorite channels.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: empathy 3.1.90-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-10.16-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-10-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Sep 7 15:34:12 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64+mac (20110901)
SourcePackage: empathy
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Paul Hoell (hoellp)]

This is not specific to IRC protocoll, but is also present when using Jabber MUCs...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Alexandre Damien (alexandredamien)]

I confirm it also disappears with Jabber MUCs

[Bilal Shahid (s9iper1)]

i am sending it to upstream subscribe to the bug report and answer there to the developer
and more over i have also seen this issue

[psypher (psypher246)]

Has any progress been made on this bug, I have updated to precise 12.04 and this is still occurring

[psypher (psypher246)]

Hello all,

This ticket is 3 months short of being open a year now. Please can it be attended to, if there are any tests that need to be done please let me know and I can assist. The issue has actually been ongoing for much longer adding to the frustration

[CrusaderAD (crusaderad-gmail)]

Same here, annoying bug. Any progress?

[psypher (psypher246)]

This issue is not getting fixed any time soon, as per upstream bug report:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=646707
  empathy | Multi User Chat | 2.33.x

--- Comment #6 from Guillaume Desmottes <email address hidden> 2012-07-09 13:26:35 UTC ---
Someone has to rewrite/redesign most of Emapthy's chatroom manager. I don't
have time doing it atm.

[Keith Drummond (kd353)]

Empathy not saving the favourite IRC channels in Ubuntu 12.10