Why was this marked invalid? It's an obvious bug which can be reproduced like in comment #8.
In short, after running "empathy -p" once, the preference windows opens every time the empathy windows is raised by executing "empathy", even without the -p. Interestingly, even when starting using the option -h, --start-hidden Don't display the contact list or any other dialogs on startup the preferences dialog still pops up. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/986983 Title: Opening Empthay from the Indicator also opens the Preference window To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/986983/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs