Description of problem: if you have several accounts, like icq, yahoo and aim, and some of those connect quickly, when you set gaim to away, if msn is not connected yet, it will fail to connect after you change the state to any of those pre-defined away ones, as well as custom ones. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): this happens since 0.77 thru 1.1.4 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1.open gaim 2.befor msn connects, set gaim to "away" 3.it will fail Actual results: the connection won't happen. Expected results: msn would connect and instantly change to away
Is this still an issue in 1.2.1?
No, it is not.
Actually this is still a bug in Gaim 1.2.1. It's fixed upstream though, so Gaim 1.3.0 will behave correctly in this situation.