Comment 8 for bug 452067

"If I click Available, sign me on but don't launch Empathy."

David, what exactly did you mean by that? I didn't understand.

Also, I can guess that users complained because the implementation tied the Me Menu with Empathy and they used Pidgin. In my original report (Bug #442603), I pointed out this dilemma:

"I believe the expected behavior in this situation would be either to make the app open or to make all options other than "offline" grayed out. Since there's no way, in the first case, to figure out the correct procedure if the user has Pidgin AND Empathy installed, I suggest following the second suggestion."

It's not easy to figure out the correct behavior in case the user has two messaging apps installed. Set a "default" chat app? Open both? Open neither?