I am a KDE user. I use Triskel. I can conveniently say why don't everyone use
a proper desktop ;-)
But from what I see, Gnome Shell is very likely to be the default desktop of
next Trisquel. And current Trisquel will continue till 2017! We have to get
this fixed. :)
It is not Empathy that auto answers. (When you start Empathy, auto answering
stops) It is the desktop environment that enforces auto-answering. It doesn't
even notify the incoming call. It doesn't even ring. What if I am not paying
attention to the screen? This is a bug.