Comment 3 for bug 1090419

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Jon Loldrup (loldrup) wrote : Re: [Bug 1090419] Re: messaging-menu doesn't allow one to set availability status if a chat program isn't open

I use Ubuntu 12.04, 64 bit
Den 30/10/2013 23.31 skrev "Sebastien Bacher" <email address hidden>:

> Thank you for your bug report. What version of Ubuntu do you use?
>
> ** Changed in: indicator-messages
> Importance: Undecided => Low
>
> ** Changed in: indicator-messages
> Status: New => Incomplete
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1090419
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> Title:
> messaging-menu doesn't allow one to set availability status if a chat
> program isn't open
>
> Status in The Messaging Menu:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> When I want to be available online, I would like to use the messaging
> indicator to become available (ie set my status to be "Available").
> However, doing so has no effect if I haven't previously opened Empathy
> (or perhaps another properly registered chat program). Also, I am not
> told that the action I just performed had no effect. I have to guess
> or learn over time.
>
> Weirdly, if I open empathy and subsequently close the empathy window,
> the messaging indicator DOES work to the desired effect, that is, I
> can change my availability status and it will reflect in my online
> status in Empathy.
>
> Also, if I have successfully become available online, this status is
> not remembered across reboots. To regain availability after reboot I
> would, as described above, have to manually open the Empathy window,
> and then perhaps close it again if I don't want to look at it (I only
> opened it to achieve the side effect of becomning available for chat,
> so I don't want to actually look at it.
>
> How cumbersome.
>
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