Empathy don't close with click on notification area icon

I can confirm this bug is a regression.

Copying the comments I wronly wrote on another bug:

Upstream does not suffer of this regression. It is introduced
in introduced by Ubuntu in debian/patches/30_raise_not_toggle.patch

It seems this bug was introduced on purpose (see #392153), which is a shame.

In order to get the same behavior of empathy(upstream), you can do the following:

$ sudo apt-get build-dep empathy
$ apt-get source empathy
$ cd empathy
$ rm debian/patches/30_raise_not_toggle.patch
$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b
$ cd ..
$ sudo dpkg -i empathy_2.28.0.*.deb

A change on this behaviour will not be accepted on the stable upstream.

Hi,
this behavior exist on empathy jaunty. So I understand that is a regression. I don't understand why they don't want fixed.
thnaks for all.

We should split the behavior out so it toggles when clicking on the notification icon (if you are using it) and raises when clicked in the messaging indicator. This would match the behavior in pidgin. We can't get this done for Karmic, but should plan to do this for Lucid.

Every default program in the tray work in the described way (show/ hide by clicking on the icon).

This programs are the "volume control applet", "network-applet" and the "clock/date-applet".

For this reason empathy should work also in that way!

Is a basic way and is a feature that worked perfectly in jaunty.
I can not believe that can not be corrected until lucid.

I have updated the patch to toggle if empathy is not configured to use the indicator. The updated patch is in lp:~ubuntu-desktop/empathy/ubuntu, however we should talk to the release team to find out if this is SRU material. It could be considered a regression.

As I wrote here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/459049 , the latest version of empathy works as expected. I use the Empathy Developer Version (ppa:telepathy/ppa).

apt-cache policy empathy
empathy:
  installed: 2.28.1-1ubuntu1+ppa9.10+1

Ken pushed the trivial patch to bzr. Sponsoring now.

This will get accepted into -proposed right after karmic release.

Accepted empathy into karmic-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

Ah.. this is working fine now, the workaround on previous version was to press Esc to send the application to the tray again, with this update on proposed clicking on the icon works again and also the Esc way still works, nicely done!. Marking this a verification done. Thanks all.

This bug was fixed in the package empathy - 2.28.1.1-0ubuntu1

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empathy (2.28.1.1-0ubuntu1) karmic-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (LP: #462016)
    - Incoming message while menu is open freezes X
    - crash when typoing room name
    - Empathy crashes with SIGSEGV when trying spellcheck
    - Empathy protocol chooser shouldn't cache TpConnectionManagerProtocol
    - fixes potential security issue by ensuring that messages are always
      escaped before being displayed in Webkit
  * debian/patches/20_libindicate.patch
    - fixed empathy_tp_chat_acknowledge_message: assertion failed (LP: #408530)
    - added some DEBUG output for better logging
    - Cleaned up a couple glib criticals
  * debian/libempathy-gtk28.symbols
    - Removed symbols related to location manager, they don't apply
  * debian/patches/30_raise_not_toggle.patch
    - toggle contact list visibility with the status icon (LP: #451568)

 -- Ken VanDine <email address hidden> Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:18:50 +0100

I am still seeing this problem in Lucid...

Still a problem on a fresh installation of karmic, running Empathy 2.28.1.1-0ubuntu1

Cool, we still have the bug in natty. Empathy 2.34.0