Comment 0 for bug 570590

Binary package hint: empathy

The default behaviour for empathy with the indicator applet present on gnome-panel is to hide the UI when you click the close button but keep running. The UI can be brought back to life by selecting "Chat" under the indicator applet.

If you remove the indicator applet from gnome-panel, empathy's behaviour will not change, but the main UI will disappear. It cannot be retrieved via the indicator applet, obviously, but remains running, so you are listed as "present" etc. on your IM networks.

In this situation it is possible to get the UI to re-appear by launching a new empathy instance (which causes the original instance to display its UI) but this is not particulary intuitive.

Empathy should perhaps quit like a traditional program when you click on the close button and do not have an indicator applet. Perhaps with an "are you sure" prompt.

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 i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Apr 27 10:25:28 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release Candidate i386 (20100419.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: empathy