Comment 3 for bug 552655

Thank You very much for the quick answer. I wasn't able to download the
newest version, that You linked me to, but i will wait till the 10.4
appears, and i'm pretty sure, it is included, and will work.

May God bless Your work and Your life!

2010/3/31 Brian Curtis <email address hidden>

> Thanks for your bug report and helping to make Ubuntu better. I believe
> this is fixed in the most recent version of empathy. Please try
> installing empathy from the telepathy PPA at
>
> https://edge.launchpad.net/~telepathy/+archive/ppa?field.series_filter=karmic<https://edge.launchpad.net/%7Etelepathy/+archive/ppa?field.series_filter=karmic>
> and verify that it is.
>
> ** Changed in: empathy (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Low
>
> ** Changed in: empathy (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> status message does not appear when status set to busy or away
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/552655
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>
> Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: empathy
>
> When status is "available", status messages work fine (although it would be
> nice if web addresses would be clickable in status messages), but when
> status is set to "Busy" or "Away", the custom status message does not
> appear, although it was freshly set.
> Note: the same problem is occures with Pidgin. Is it a coincidence, or it
> is not because of the IM client?
>
> Version of Ubuntu: 9.10 Desktop edition
>
> Version of Empathy package (data collected from Ubuntu Software Center):
> 2.28.1.1-0ubuntu1 (empathy)
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Wed Mar 31 18:49:05 2010
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
> Package: empathy 2.28.1.1-0ubuntu1
> ProcEnviron:
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.58-generic
> SourcePackage: empathy
> Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic i686
> XsessionErrors:
> (gnome-settings-daemon:1761): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error:
> assertion `src != NULL' failed
> (nautilus:1856): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion
> `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
> (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1883): GLib-CRITICAL **:
> g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
> (gnome-panel:1855): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to
> allocate widget with width -4 and height 24
> (firefox:2544): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times
>
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