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[Fibonacci]

Binary package hint: empathy

All chat messages on Empathy are shown in the same font, same size, same colour, etc., regardless of the settings used by whoever sent them.
Amongst other things, this combined with bug 485017, makes it impossible to chat on MSN Groups.

[Brian Curtis (bcurtiswx)]

Thanks for your bug report and helping to make Ubuntu better. This is a wishlist item, as this feature does not exist currently and is not a bug for not being available.

[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.

[Fibonacci (fibonacci-prower)]

Done: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=622962

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

thanks for sending this bug upstream :)

[Hell Pé (hellpe)]

It seems that a lot of bugs (#670171, #521198, #504771) are related with this one.
Isn't full Adium message styles support an important issue ? In Maverick, Empathy still lacks CSS variants, anti-aliasing (buddy icons look horrible, even with the "Ubuntu" default style), distinction between single-chat and conference room windows, and proper font support, which causes usability problems. Those styles are also difficult to install ; you need to copy-paste the downloaded theme to a well-hidden folder (~/.local/share/adium/message-styles/).
Shoud I file another bug report ? May I add it to the Paper Cut project ?

[Juan Sebastián Marulanda (juanchito2006)]

The application should be working more in line with supporting features the official clients have, instead of focusing in streamlining to nonstandard elements.

[Brian Curtis (bcurtiswx)]

This is already filed upstream and there is not need to do anything more on our end. Keep up with the upstream bug.