Uninstalling empathy removes the ability to use global status from messaging menu

[TomasHnyk]

When I uninstall Empathy (I am not sure if it is not a bug to empathy then, but it affects indicator-messages), status entries (see screenshot in the first comment) for global status are removed, even though I use skype-wrapper and pidgin that live in the messaging menu and can use the global status. That is obviously undesired.

[TomasHnyk (sup)]

Adding a screenshot.

[Lars Karlitski (larsu)]

That's by design: the global status menu items are not be shown if no applications are registered to use the global status [1].

Skype-wrapper and pidgin probably don't advertise that they can make use of the global status. They should have a line

  X-MessagingMenu-UsesChatSection=true

in their desktop files.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MessagingMenu#Chat_status_section

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

pidgin has been updated in raring for that:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pidgin/1:2.10.6-0ubuntu3

"pidgin (1:2.10.6-0ubuntu3) raring; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/xmessagingmenu.patch:
    - use X-MessagingMenu-UsesChatSection in the desktop entry (lp: #1040259)"

[TomasHnyk (sup)]

And I have let the skype-wrapper developers know about in bug 1083599