Hi back again, I did some further tests about the missing notifications.
Ken VanDine, I've tested the problem you were reporting using a vanilla version of empathy git (without my patches). It's a normal behavior of empathy: the missing notifications will appear as soon as you click on empathy status icon. Since we have no status icon in ubuntu, those notifications are eaten.
Hi back again, I did some further tests about the missing notifications.
Ken VanDine, I've tested the problem you were reporting using a vanilla version of empathy git (without my patches). It's a normal behavior of empathy: the missing notifications will appear as soon as you click on empathy status icon. Since we have no status icon in ubuntu, those notifications are eaten.