Indicators - removal of IM clients does not remove IM status from menu

[Dave Jones]

Having removed Empathy from my machine, I am still presented with the status options in the messaging menu - these are all greyed out, and therefore useless.

They should be removed in the same way that Ubuntu one, Thunderbird, etc are.

<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MessagingMenu#Chat_status_section>: "The chat status section should appear only when any applications are registered to use it."

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Kai Mast (kai-mast)]

Maybe use this chance to replace the status options with a simple "do not disturb"-switch? They take up way too much space.

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

John: to what degree are the indicator-messaging->IM statuae intended to be omni-present, in the case that:

  (a) no application is running that can drive them?
  (b) no application is installed that can drive them?

(On the distro side, 'ubuntu-desktop' depends on Empathy, and that by removing 'ubuntu-desktop' it is by definition non-standard and a less critical issue unless it becomes relevent for say Ubuntu Business Desktop. So, for the moment this is more of an upstream Ayatana/Unity Design policy question).

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

This has been specified since June 2011: "The IM status section should appear: ... * not at all, if you have set up applications to use the messaging menu but none of them are setting IM status (for example, just one e-mail application)." <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MessagingMenu#IM_status_section>

[Karma Dorje (taaroa)]

indeed, looks very strange and not rational.

[Lars Karlitski (larsu)]

Works as expected in indicator-messages 12.10.2 (which is in quantal).

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The issue is fixed in quantal

[Christian Giordano (nuthinking)]

It works only after logging out/in.

[Christian Giordano (nuthinking)]

The solution failed the following process:

1) login into Unity
2) uninstall Empathy
3) Accessing Messaging Menu

The IM status options where still available.

Desired solution: IM status options shouldn't be present in the Messaging Menu after step 2.