Empathy does not remember previous status

[Jonathan Blackhall]

Binary package hint: empathy

I start Empathy and it automatically connects to all my accounts. My status is set to the generic "Available". I create a custom status message for "Available", and it works well. Then I completely quit Empathy. A while later I re-start Empathy, and my status has been reset back to the generic "Available". The same is true if I set my Empathy status to the generic "Away". If I quit and re-start Empathy, my status is reset to the generic "Available".

The latter may be a "feature" (i.e. a specific design decision), but the former situation definitely seems like a bug. What I expect to happen: My custom status message is preserved, even if I quit Empathy. This is especially true if I created a "Saved Preset" custom message.

Ubuntu Lucid amd64 with all updates to-date.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: empathy 2.30.0.1-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Apr 21 18:30:16 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100406.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: empathy

[Viktor Pal (deere)]

I can confirm this.
After I quit empathy and start is again my status is available though I set it to away.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

read comment#8 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=569473

[Brian Curtis (bcurtiswx)]

Thanks for the upstream link omer, linking and marking triaged.

[Karolis (karolis)]

Still an issue (i.e. has not been implemented) in 11.10

[klakier (insane-vx)]

It is even worse that it is also resetting the status message. If I'm logged in with another client (Gtalk on Android phone), the status gets reset on both and the message is lost on both and I may not even notice it...

[Chris (cmavr8)]

It is ridiculous that we lost this feature when default (and ubuntu-notifier-blessed) chat client was changed from pidgin.

Please try to fix this!
Or just vote to change back to pidgin!

Thanks