I'm with MPT and co. on this. The option should be removed entirely. Why would you *not* want to go online when starting Empathy? If you're *starting* Empathy, you're signalling that you want to go online.
As for what state to start Empathy in, it should match whatever state the Indicator Applet Session is in when Empathy starts. -- "Automatically connect on startup" setting confusing - users may expect this to run Empathy on login https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/322314 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