when Empathy is opened from Message Indicator, it appears below current window

[Dylan McCall]

Binary package hint: empathy

With the version of Empathy in Ubuntu Karmic, it is now listed in the message indicator applet. Clicking on Empathy Instant Messenger from there causes the main window to appear, but unfocused (and beneath the active window) by default. This is absolutely unnecessary. If the user chooses it from the menu, he probably wants it and doesn't appreciate needing to move the mouse to the other edge of the screen to raise it.

I am using Metacity, and this bug did not occur at all with Empathy's previous behaviour (without the indicator applet).
There seems to be some inconsistency in whether this happens or Empathy is, in fact, raised. However, I have not tracked down a pattern.

I also observed this issue with Pidgin.

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

[Dylan McCall (dylanmccall)]

Kamus, could you please explain which information is missing? The "previous comments" to which you refer do not exist.

Thanks :)

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

Dear Dylan, May you attach a screenshot or something to complete this report with more details?

Best Regards

[Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)]

Empathy currently toggles visibilty both when clicked in the indicator and on the icon. Pidgin does as well, but we have modified pidgin-libnotify to always show the buddy list when clicked in the indicator. We should do the same for empathy.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package empathy - 2.27.92-1ubuntu3

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empathy (2.27.92-1ubuntu3) karmic; urgency=low

  [Ken VanDine]
  * debian/control:
    - Added libindicate-gtk-dev and libindicate-dev (>=0.2.0) to build depends
  * debian/patches/30_raise_not_toggle.patch:
    - Always raise contact list when clicked (LP: #392153)
  * debian/patches/99_autoconf.patch added

  [Robert Ancell]
  * debian/patches/10_use_notify_osd_icons.patch:
    - Use the notify-OSD icons for new messages (LP: #409828)
  * debian/patches/20_libindicate.patch:
    - Integrate into messaging menu (LP: #340180)
  * debian/control:
    - Remove Debian VCS links as they confuse debcheckout

 -- Ken VanDine <email address hidden> Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:34:40 +0200

[Leandro (leandromartinez98)]

I don't think it was fixed. I still have it with empathy 2.28.1.

Here is a video showing the current behaviour in fully up-to-date karmic.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

see bug #442389

[Leandro (leandromartinez98)]

Now it is fixed for me!

[Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)]

It's not really fixed, it has always raised the window sometimes. But I think more often than not it doesn't. Not sure if a fix for this will ever land in Karmic, but we will surely fix it before Lucid.

[Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)]

This has been fixed for Lucid in 2.29.3-1ubuntu1

[Sune Keller (sune-keller)]

Does 2.29.3-1ubuntu1 also fix this problem: When raising the window, it does indeed appear above other windows as expected, but it does not grab focus -- which means that pressing Ctrl-Q to quit Empathy quits whichever program is running in the background, e.g. Evolution with the e-mail I was just reading?

[Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)]

I just tried this with empathy 2.29.6-0ubuntu1 and it does get focus, and ctrl-q quits empathy