What I think is that you are expecting empathy to use your image in the MeMenu. Empathy at the moment does not support getting avatar from 'about me' and also this bug has already been reported.
** Changed in: empathy (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- I cant see my avatar in the window conversation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/553036 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