Comment 37 for bug 452067

I'm out of the office until 1st August.

On 24 Apr 2011, at 00:59, Patrick Scott <email address hidden>
wrote:

> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 550824 ***
>    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/550824
>
> No neither of these changes worked for me, I'm afraid. Although I
> never
> knew you could set a password keyring to blank, very useful!
>
> I'm quite happy with my workaround to add empathy as a Startup
> Application. Setting the command "empathy -h" starts it in hidden
> window
> mode and simulates the desired behavior quite well :)
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/452067
>
> Title:
>  indicator-applet-session should launch empathy if I change my status
>
> Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
>  Invalid
> Status in Me Menu:
>  Confirmed
> Status in “indicator-me” package in Ubuntu:
>  Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
>  Binary package hint: indicator-applet-session
>
>  If empathy is not started, indicator-applet-session will not allow me
>  to change my online status by greying out the menu.
>
>  Instead, it should automatically launch empathy if I choose to become
>  online.
>
>
>  Current situation is a big usability bug because :
>
>  - Most users will not understand that they have to start empathy
> first.
>  - We etablish an artificial difference for two situations that are
> similar for the end-user : having empathy launched but hidden and
> not having empathy launched. From an user perspective, there's no
> way to distinguish between those situatitons. And it should not be
> the case.
>
>  Note that indicator-applet already behaves correctly.