initial empathy account wizard does not offer IRC as an account
Bug #433714 reported by
Tim Potter
This bug affects 21 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Empathy |
Fix Released
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Medium
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NULL Project |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Baltix |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
empathy (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: empathy
In both karimc alpha 5 and alpha 6, and the Lucid daily image from 2-24, when starting the empathy IM client, the wizard that starts gives a list of accounts available to create. In this list, IRC is missing. I've seen this both on the live environment and a clean install.
The workaround is to exit and go to Edit -> Accounts (F4) and Add an account. IRC is listed in this location. In Lucid, you have to get past the wizard (basically set up one account) this work around.
A new user that installs Karmic, may want to get to IRC #ubuntu channel, and this gives the initial perception that they cannot accomplish this.
Changed in empathy: | |
status: | Confirmed → New |
Changed in empathy (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
Changed in empathy (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Low → Wishlist |
tags: | added: lucid |
tags: | added: screencast |
Changed in empathy: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in empathy: | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
Changed in empathy: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
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Confirming; I had no accounts created yet on my Karmic alpha 6 install, and this happened when I tried to create an IRC account. (This testing was done by request of the bug submitter to confirm the existence of this bug.)
You'll also see that the "People Nearby" account type is absent as well in the Welcome Screen.