Tracked the issue down, this is a design decision and not a bug, empathy behaves the same way, if you disagree with the design please file a new bug in bugzilla.gnome.org, this was not an Ubuntu change.
Tracked the issue down, this is a design decision and not a bug, empathy behaves the same way, if you disagree with the design please file a new bug in bugzilla.gnome.org, this was not an Ubuntu change.