closing the contacts window in pidgin now quits pidgin

[Tessa]

Since upgrade to 11.10 (and starting to use Unity for the first time) I'm getting weird behaviour with Pidgin. Previously, closing the contacts window with a chat window would leave pidgin running in the system tray. Now, closing it closes all of Pidgin, even if a conversation window is still open and active.

I've checked and the system tray option is still active, but I'm under the impression that Unity irreparably breaks system tray functionality, so I guess that doesn't mean anything.

Regardless, Pidgin should remain open if one of its windows is still open.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: pidgin 1:2.10.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Oct 25 12:10:36 2011
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pidgin
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-25 (0 days ago)

[Tessa (unit3)]

Additionally, once the contact list is minimized, clicking the dock open only re-shows the minimized window about 50% of the time. Is this a known bug with Unity's weird dock?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Madhusudan.C.S (madhusudancs)]

Pidgin was working fine for me till 12.04 and I "fresh" installed 12.10 a few days back and I see this bug. It is very annoying. Please fix this bug? I can send the debug log if it is required. What is more painful is that Pidgin does not provide an explicit minimize to tray option.