I think there is an additional consitency problem with Lucid. For the user point of view there should be no difference in behaviour between the Gwibber+gwibber-service (which starts automatically) combination and Empathy+telepathy. I mean that for a user both apps will display notification in the background, both apps are manageable through the "MeMenu" and the "Indicator applet", they should have the same startup behaviour.
I think there is an additional consitency problem with Lucid. For the user point of view there should be no difference in behaviour between the Gwibber+ gwibber- service (which starts automatically) combination and Empathy+telepathy. I mean that for a user both apps will display notification in the background, both apps are manageable through the "MeMenu" and the "Indicator applet", they should have the same startup behaviour.