I'm running lucid. This was confusing for me also. I got a subscription request, and saw the notification, and dug around in the empathy client for a while before I eventually noticed the indicator was colored and there was an address under the Chat menu item which could be clicked to respond.
But why not also have a way to respond in the empathy client? -- Visual notification for/correct user response to incoming voice calls and subscription requests not obvious https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/440865 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to empathy in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs