Send to Empathy

[Guillaume Pascal]

Binary package hint: nautilus

Unable to choose the contact to send a file to when using "send to" in Nautilus while connected to Empathy.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Start Empathy and connect to at least one account
2. Open a Nautilus window
3. Right-click on a file
4. Select "Send to..."
5. In the "Send as" dropdown box, select "Instant Message (Empathy)"

Expected behaviour:
The "Send to" dropdown box should become active and contain the list of Empathy contacts currently connected.

Actual behaviour:
The "Send to" dropdown box is greyed out and no contact can be selected.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jan 19 19:30:55 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100113)
Package: nautilus 1:2.29.1-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=fr_FR.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-10.14-generic
SourcePackage: nautilus
Tags: ubuntu-unr lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-10-generic i686

[Bruno Girin (brunogirin)]

@guigui14100: you need Empathy to be started first, otherwise Nautilus doesn't have access to the list of contacts. To do that, click on the envelope at the top of your screen, select Empathy and wait for it connect. Once you've done that, you can send a file to a contact via Nautilus. It makes sense as it would be impossible to send a file without being logged in in the first place.

I'm changing it to "Invalid". Please feel free to re-open it if you feel that I missed something.

[Guillaume Pascal (guigui14100-deactivatedaccount)]

If I mention that I was already connected

[varanasi (mark-hugheshome)]

Bruno: Same problem if logged in on empathy. Cannot send a file to empathy. The "choose contact" option is greyed out.

[Bruno Girin (brunogirin)]

Re-assigning to nautilus-sendto following confirmation from varanasi.

[Bruno Girin (brunogirin)]

@varanasi, @guigui14100: I updated the description and clarified the steps to reproduce. Can you confirm that the steps to reproduce are correct please?

Thanks

[Guillaume Pascal (guigui14100-deactivatedaccount)]

Yes, it's correct

[varanasi (mark-hugheshome)]

@Bruno #6 - Perfect description

[Roman A. Taycher (rtaycher)]

It should always work even. If empathy has not started up yet, start up empathy, transfer and possibly quit after transfer. If it just fails when empathy hasn't started its a bad gui

[Bruno Girin (brunogirin)]

I just added the "regression-potential" tag as this bug is present in Lucid but not in Karmic.

@Roman: this bug report is purely about not being able to send via IM even when Empathy is not started, which means the functionality doesn't work at all. Whether the functionality should also work when Empathy is not started yet is a usability issue and should be the subject of another bug so please feel free to file one.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

recently nautilus-sendto was updated to 2.29.90 did it fix the problem?

[Guillaume Pascal (guigui14100-deactivatedaccount)]

No, I still have the same problem

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, what protocol do you use? does empathy support filetransfert for it?

[Guillaume Pascal (guigui14100-deactivatedaccount)]

No, it was the MSN protocol, but telepathy-butterfly does not support for now

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

it's not a bug then, it lists only contact to which you can send something which seems logical behaviour

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

it's not a bug then, it lists only contact to which you can send something which seems the logical behaviour

[varanasi (mark-hugheshome)]

@ sebastien

It won't allow selection of any AIM contacts either. Does empathy support filetransfert for AOL?