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empathy package

Use avatar from MeMenu in empathy

Bug #548592 reported by Alex Eftimie
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Empathy
Expired
Medium
The Me Menu
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned
empathy (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: empathy

It would be nice if Empathy would use by default the same avatar as the MeMenu for every protocol, not just 'People nearby'. Less clicks, more functionality.

Or make this an option.

See original description
Alex Eftimie (alexeftimie)
summary: - Use avatar from MeMenu
+ Use avatar from MeMenu in empathy
description: updated
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Guillaume Pascal (guigui14100-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Yes good idea

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

Not a MeMenu bug as it uses 'about me' to set its image

Changed in indicator-me:
status: New → Invalid
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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=614042

Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Triaged
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in empathy:
status: Unknown → New
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Tessa (unit3) wrote :

First, I'd like to point out that on my system, Empathy doesn't even set the "People Nearby" avatar to the MeMenu one. It just does nothing when you change the Me Menu avatar. So Bug #583121 isn't an exact duplicate of this.

As well, reading this report, I'm pretty confused as to how this is "wishlist"? This is implied functionality in all the promotional work that went into the Lucid release. I mean, just look at the current features tour place:

http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/1004features

More specifically, this text that accompanies the picture of the MeMenu:

"Connect to your chat channels and make updates through a single window."

Accompanied by an image of the online status indication (which doesn't work, due to bug #574661), and of the user's Avatar picture interface (which doesn't work, due to this bug).

From the people I've asked, they all assume this would work out of the box, and consider its absense a bug, not a new feature idea.

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

upstream bug was marked as duplicate of https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=490154

Changed in empathy:
status: New → Unknown
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in empathy:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in empathy:
importance: Unknown → Medium
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in empathy:
status: Confirmed → Expired
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