Comment 70 for bug 304889

It’s sad that such a serious bug has been present since Jaunty and almost nothing has been done to solve it. GNOME already switched from Pidgin to Empathy for no *really good* reason and Ubuntu simply chose to follow them blindly.

My company uses the Sametime protocol for IM collaboration and now I have to choose between a working client (Pidgin) and the one that integrates well with the shell (Empathy). My (silly but necessary) workaround has been to switch off the GNOME proxy settings, connect to the Sametime server, then switch them back on.

My opinion? Fix this already, or revert to Pidgin and let the GNOME folks deal with this as their reward.