If I understand you right, this means you can see your own status message, but your contacts can't see it, right?
I have this same problem on MSN and Yahoo! protocol, but nothing is wrong with gtalk. -- status message does not appear when status set to busy or away https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/552655 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
