the me menu to select your status is quite unuseful if most of the space is taken by status list all grayed out... empathy should at least be launched to allow to choose your status via the me menu.
The best would be to have it autoconnect (as required here) with a preselected status (not always "online/available") -- empathy doesn't autoconnect at startup https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/549723 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs