Comment 4 for bug 495671

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Conscious User (conscioususer) wrote :

I had an interesting experience with this bug yesterday and
feel it is relevant to mention. A friend once tried to talk to
me via Empathy, but I wasn't at the computer at the time
and didn't return before he eventually went offline. I then
turned off the computer in a rush without verifying the
indicator-applet, effectively losing his message.

(the last part is at least what I think it happened, judging
by the message timestamp)

When I was using the computer again later, I got bitten
by the bug: I clicked on the applet because of a new
Gwibber entry and was fooled by an entry that was there
just because this same friend had just logged in. So
I clicked on the indicator.

Now comes the funny part: because of Empathy logging,
when I opened the conversation window from the
indicator, the last message was his "hello" from
BEFORE, and thus the fooling was complete. The friend
promptly received a "hello" from me as a reply from a
message he had sent hours before. :)

I only understood what happened when I actually looked
at the message timestamp.

So, long story short: this bug and Empathy logging is a
nasty combination.