Chat Accounts button should configure Pidgin accounts if Pidgin is running (also a "default IM client" option is needed)

[Scott Ritchie]

Binary package hint: indicator-me

The Me menu tends to perform poorly if the user is using Pidgin. Setting status to Away and Available works well enough, however clicking the Chat Accounts button will open an Empathy setup.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Mar 11 17:26:22 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20100224.1)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: indicator-me 0.2.4-0ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.25-generic
SourcePackage: indicator-me
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic x86_64

[Scott Ritchie (scottritchie)]

It seems like a more robust "preferred IM client" option is needed, analogous to the way we handle web browsers and email clients.

[David Barth (dbarth)]

Yes, without that preferred IM option, it's difficult to know which one to trigger.

Empathy is really the default IM client now. If you remove it, you shouldn't see the entry anymore.

[David Barth (dbarth)]

One solution would be to define a priority in the desktop actions we're adding and have that used to know which one to display. It's more brittle and managing preferences at the .desktop level is a nasty game. In all cases, this is not something that is currently supported by the dbusmenu comamnd items we ship for Lucid.