Comment 17 for bug 587272

The upstream developers do no accept the patch, because indicator API changes very often. They simply do not have ubuntu and they cannot therefore control the changes. They will not accept it until indicator becomes a rather common thing.

Indicator-me has different code for supporting pidgin and empathy. I really do not think that it is a good idea to make a patch for indicator itself just to support another IM. I thought you might know the plans for the API :)