Bug 711645

Summary: Gnome 3 "Available" or "Busy" no affect with Empathy on start-up
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Nicholas Cancelliere <ncancelliere>
Component: empathyAssignee: Brian Pepple <bdpepple>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Nicholas Cancelliere 2011-06-08 03:42:27 UTC
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Description of problem:

With Empathy set to start "automatically connect on startup" under Preferences > General, it never does. I can set my Gnome 3 user menu to "Available" or "Busy" and it has no effect whatsoever, unless Empathy is open and running.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Gnome 3.0.1
Empath 3.0.2

How reproducible:

All the time, 100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start a Gnome 3 session
2. Open System Settings > Messaging and VoIP Accounts
3. Add some accounts (eg. Facebook, Google Talk)
4. Open Empath and under Preferences > General set "automatically connect on startup on", close Empathy
5. Log out of Gnome 3 and back in with the same user
6. Make sure user account shows "Available" status icon (upper right corner)
7. Open System Settings > Messaging and VoIP, notice everything is offline
8. Open Empathy, notice everything comes online
  
Actual results:

Empathy does not start when Gnome 3 session does, so status icons next to username are meaningless, until Empathy is running. Although status icon next to username shows "Available" going to System Settings > Messaging and VoIP shows everything offline.

Expected results:

Empathy should start on start-up, or Gnome 3 status icons should indicate user is offline at least. Bottom line ... the status of the user show in the upper right of Gnome 3 shell should match the status of what you see under System Settings > Messaging and VoIP.


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Comment 1 Brian Pepple 2011-06-08 04:02:02 UTC
The me menu status handles more than just IM availability. When it is set to 'Busy' all non-critical notifications are disabled (and stacked in the notification area), and when 'Available' all notifications are shown. Marking as NOTABUG since this is a GNOME3 designed feature.