Ubuntu
empathy package

Notified of subscription request but no way to accept it.

Bug #484137 reported by Paul Harrison
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This bug affects 7 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
empathy (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Low
Ken VanDine
Ubuntu lucid-alpha-2

Bug Description

Binary package hint: empathy

When I start Empathy a black box pops up telling me that "Subscription requested by <a friend of mine>@gmail.com".

I have been unable to find any way of accepting the request.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Nov 17 22:12:21 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: empathy 2.28.1.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: empathy
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64

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Paul Harrison (paul-francis-harrison) wrote :
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Martijn van der Kwast (stilgar1) wrote :

Same here on i686 architecture and with an msn account instead of a gmail one.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
importance: Undecided → Low
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Olivier Le Thanh Duong (olethanh) wrote :

This is actually an issue introduced by ubuntu's libindicator patch.
The current way to hack your way arround the problem is to disactivate the support for the Indicator in empathy's preferences

Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Ken, could you have a look to this one?

Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
assignee: Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs) → Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)
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Ken VanDine (ken-vandine) wrote :

The authorization requests appear in the messaging menu, just like an IM does. You have to click on that to get the Approve/Reject dialog. Currently there is a problem with those dialogs getting raised properly though, they stay below the current window. This can make it appear as if selecting the authorization request in the messaging menu does nothing.

That bug is https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/392153

This isn't really a dupe of that, we should probably distinguish authorization requests from login and message events. We will keep it on the radar for Lucid.

Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
milestone: none → lucid-alpha-2
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bmike1 (bmike1) wrote :

>This is actually an issue introduced by ubuntu's libindicator patch.
>The current way to hack your way arround the problem is to
>disactivate the support for the Indicator in empathy's preferences

if we disable the indicator what about indications we want or real indications?

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