URLs are not linkable in status message or contact information

[Rami Al-Rfou']

Binary package hint: empathy

If one of the contacts has a URL in his/her status message, it is hard to open it.
You think of two ways:
1- The tooltip: The tooltip can not clicked like the Gmail tooltip so if the URL was recognised it won't be accessible .
2- The contact information: Right click on the contact then choosing contact information is not working also; the URL is not linkable in the contact information

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Aug 9 23:29:35 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: empathy 2.27.5-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-5.24-generic
SourcePackage: empathy
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-5-generic i686

[Brian Curtis (bcurtiswx)]

Thanks for your bug report and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported upstream and you can follow along at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=525576.

[David Siegel (djsiegel-deactivatedaccount)]

This is a feature request (and a moderately complex one), so it cannot be considered a paper cut.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package empathy - 2.29.91.2-0ubuntu1

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empathy (2.29.91.2-0ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * new upstream release
    - URL in contact's status are not clickable (LP: #411150)
    - "Network Error" on any new Google Talk account (LP: #477233)
  * debian/patches/20_libindicate.patch
    - Updated for 2.29.91.2
  * debian/empathy.gconf-defaults
    - enable notifications when chat is not focused (LP: #460286)
 -- Ken VanDine <email address hidden> Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:49:39 -0500