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indicator-me package

Changing status in indicator-applet signs in empathy when Pidgin is running

Bug #514087 reported by Stuart Read on 2010-01-28

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #465034: Set status via me menu logs in empathy even if the user is using Pidgin. Edit Remove

This bug affects 5 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	The Me Menu	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned
	indicator-me (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: indicator-applet

1) Ubuntu Karmic, up to date.

2) indicator-applet-session 0.2

3) Pidgin should change status when using the indicator-applet without logging in Telepathy.

4) When changing the status of pidgin using the indicator-applet-session, it sucessfully changes the status of pidgin and simultaneously signs in Telepathy. This causes single-sign-in protocols (ie MSN) to sign out, as the Telepathy login revokes the existing Pidgin Login.

NB: This requires that these accounts are configured in empathy (ie, you tried it out once)

I don't think that indicator-applet should be activating Telepathy on it's own, it should only change the status of IM programs that the user has explicity started, not just configured.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 2c0efdb64eebdbcd4815522b33fc1648
CheckboxSystem: efd05939b08abfe86caa44c3820f8e56
Date: Thu Jan 28 17:53:57 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: indicator-applet-session 0.2.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
SourcePackage: indicator-applet
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic i686

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Stuart Read (sread) wrote on 2010-01-28:

Dependencies.txt Edit (9.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XsessionErrors.txt Edit (1013 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

description:

updated

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote on 2010-01-29:

In Lucid pidgin don't seem to be controlled by indicator applet(It might be a bug) I don't know exactly but It might have been done on purpose?

Omer Akram (om26er) on 2010-02-05

summary:

- Changing status in indicator-applet signs in Telepathy when Pidgin is
+ Changing status in indicator-applet signs in empathy when Pidgin is
running

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somejan (somejan) wrote on 2010-03-01:

I'm having the same problem.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2010-03-10:

Thank you for your bug report, could you try if that's still an issue in lucid?

affects:	indicator-applet (Ubuntu) → indicator-me (Ubuntu)
Changed in indicator-me (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Low

Ted Gould (ted) on 2010-03-16

affects:

indicator-session → indicator-me

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Geoffrey Pursell (geoffp) wrote on 2010-03-16:

Still an issue with Lucid. I'd love to be able to use the Me Menu someday.

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Stuart Read (sread) wrote on 2010-03-17:

I can confirm this is still an issue in Lucid. I would also like to reiterate that empathy itself is not started, just the telapathy/mission-control-5 back-end, contrary to Omer's edit of the title.
Also, it's probably a separate bug report, but after a few seconds of being "Available" when pidgin is running, the Me menu switches to the offline symbol, even though pidgin is still online.

Ryan (ryan-farmer-personal-deactivatedaccount) on 2010-03-18

Changed in indicator-me (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed
Changed in indicator-me:
status:	New → Confirmed

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote on 2010-03-23:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 465034, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.