when contact goes offline, the "typing" icon should not be displayed

[Micha Moskovic]

Binary package hint: empathy

When a contact goes offline, and he was typing just before going offline, the icon in the upper left corner of the conversation window remains the "typing icon", even if the contact is obviously not typing anymore, being offline.
This is a very disturbing bug: if the contact’s connection is unstable, and he goes frequently offline, there is no way, in the contact window, to see that the contact is offline. So I keep waiting until he finishes to type his answer, which obviously never happens.

I think this behaviour is wrong. Instead, the offline icon should be showed even if he was typing before going offline, or a message should appear in the conversation window, saying something like "your contact is now offline. You will possibly not get a reply".

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: empathy 2.30.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri May 21 20:55:37 2010
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: empathy

[Pablo Rubianes (pablorubianes-uy)]

I think this should be add in the wishlist for Empathy.

Pablo Rubianes

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

I cant reproduce this with gtalk. as soon as the other contact quited the 'typing' icon changed to offline