not easy to know which account is connected

[tony lynch]

Binary package hint: empathy

a user don't know which of his accounts are connected unless he open account
preferences and look there for the active accounts. there should be a simple
way so that user knows which account is active at the moment

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 6f20a03a30f0c6690afeffbc021e19d2
CheckboxSystem: b62ae224500b03a9fc2c9b6caf3feb14
Date: Tue Nov 3 03:32:57 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: empathy 2.28.1-1ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: empathy
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-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?

 This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

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? Thanks!

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. 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. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=607787

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

upstream bug was marked a duplicate of https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=605309 which should make its way into 2.29.6 (maybe)

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

its fixed upstream and will be released in empathy 2.29.6

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package empathy - 2.29.6-0ubuntu1

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empathy (2.29.6-0ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  [ Ken VanDine ]
  * debian/patches/20_libindicate.patch:
    - split out notification related stuff into separate patches
  * debian/patches/35_check_actions_notifications.patch
    - If notifications support actions, inhibit updates
  * debian/patches/32_append_notifications.patch
    - use built in empathy functions to check caps

  [ Steve Langasek ]
  * debian/control: have empathy-common Breaks: libempathy-{gtk-,}common
    and empathy-doc instead of conflicting with them, and drop the Provides:;
    the special semantics of C/R/P aren't applicable here, and in fact seem
    to confuse update-manager in some cases into refusing to upgrade empathy.

  [ Didier Roche ]
  * New upstream release
    - #603472, Rename "Hidden" to "Invisible" (G.Balaji) (LP: #489097)
    - #606329, Buttons in GtkInfoBar are too big. (Felix Kaser)
    - #573407, Empathy and telepathy-idle don't pass on server commands to
               server (LP: #509802, #397504)
    - #585168, Scrollback search and jump-to-highlight would be nice.
               (Thomas Meire) (LP: #447097)
    - #596575, Automatic salut account creation doesn't work
              (Guillaume Desmottes) (LP: #437396)
    - #599159, Stop to handle tube channels (Guillaume Desmottes)
    - #599163, Should use ContactCapability to get A/V caps
               (Guillaume Desmottes)
    - #599164, Should use ContactCapability to get FT caps (Guillaume Desmottes)
    - #600693, Empathy calls xmlCleanupParser() where it shouldn't
               (Guillaume Desmottes)
    - #600949, Deleting accounts from the treeview is weird
    - #603498, Escaped text displayed in notifications (Guillaume Desmottes)
    - #606642, IRC account: "Connect" button is not sensitive when changing the
               IRC network (Guillaume Desmottes)
    - #606753, Scrollback search is not case sensitive
    - #607207, show protocol icons in compact view (Guillaume Desmottes)
    - #607306, /join fails to work on the latest version of empathy
               (Thomas Meire) (LP: #509160)
    - #607436, Salut account should only automatically created when the wizard
               is run (Guillaume Desmottes)
    - #607455, Misc fixes regarding the accounts assistant (Guillaume Desmottes)
    - #607463, Edit Custom Messages window is too narrow (Ken VanDine)
               (LP: #502996)
    - #607868, Change Hidden to Invisible in docs
    - #607925, edit account from infobar does not open the right account
               (Guillaume Desmottes)
    - #608043, Should ellipsize text in connection error infobars
               (Will Thompson)
    - #604700, (null) status infobar with IRC account (Guillaume Desmottes)
    - #604706, infobar shows no icon if the presence is empty (Felix Kaser)
    - #605309, Show the status of accounts in the treeview (Guillaume Desmottes)
               (LP: #470096)
    - #605532, on account-creation some field should be persistent over a
               protocol change (Guillaume Desmottes)
    - #606510, Unclear string meaning (Guillaume Desmottes)
    - #585364, Get rid of...