Comment 7 for bug 570590

Jon, remove indicator-applet from panel, logout and login again and you will see empathy icon in the notification area(even if empathy is set to use messaging menu in preferences). Though it would be great that as we remove indicator applet empathy should show its icon in the notification area.

For the point that if the user in not using notification area and indicator applet at all that would be an upstream issue. I will open an upstream task now and link it here. Thanks