Comment 1 for bug 449916

The symlinks have been left on purpose.

Empathy still hasnt been updated to the latest specs. See:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=547261
https://bugs.launchpad.net/icon-naming-spec/+bug/401186

If we add symlinks for a transient problem , these would become redundant when the problem is fixed in empathy.