Comment 4 for bug 452067

This missing functionality (by the way, the specification at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeMenu seems to suggest it, at least in spirit) also greatly complicates the process of discovering features involving Social From The Start. It's turning into a jigsaw puzzle. The message indicator has some discoverability because it lights up when one receives messages. However, I don't think we can expect our users to notice it before that happens, which the current design is demanding.

In writing the introductory slideshow, I'm finding it incredibly painful to explain something along the lines of "Find the tiny, greyed out envelope icon (by the way, it also tells you when you have messages) and open Chat. Now go to the Me menu and — oh boy, look how easy it is to change your status and set up your accounts!" Or I can just tell people to do it the old way and open Empathy (which is super easy!), but I like the idea of progress.

Further along that line, it's inconsistent with the rest of the Me menu's behaviour: It is used to set up accounts, so it seems to be a launchpad of sorts for all things instant messaging... except, at the moment, it isn't; the foundations are layed, then it fizzles out. (And that accounts dialogue, by the way, makes a prominent note of the fact that status is set to offline while the menu itself makes it appear that status can't be changed - confusing!). In addition, the Me menu automatically opens Gwibber when something is entered into the microblogging text box.

So, err, in short: I was hoping someone could let us know if this will be addressed for Lucid, or after. I need to have these strings perfect, and I don't want to confuse our users :)