Comment 29 for bug 435329

Oops spoke too soon. Empathy doesn't seem to set any status at all on first launch, thereby not displaying anything on the panel. It should default to start with status set to offline or user preference. Also noticed the right-side panel icons shake like something is being added, but then nothing is displayed.

I need to launch empathy twice to get to the user interface. Seems there are three problems here:

1) empathy needs to launch with a status set
2) empathy UI should be shown on first launch
3) regardless of the first two problems, empathy should always display a panel icon if indicator applet is removed/disabled.