Reported upstream https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=617065 you could subscribe yourself to that bug report and if possible please comment with your suggestion there
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #617065 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=617065 ** Description changed: Binary package hint: empathy - The default behaviour for empathy with the indicator applet present on - gnome-panel is to hide the UI when you click the close button but keep - running. The UI can be brought back to life by selecting "Chat" under - the indicator applet. + When there is no indicator applet nor notification area loaded in the + panel, the behaviour of the close button should change. It should either + exit the application (as per HIG), perhaps prompting the user for + confirmation (since this is not the usual behaviour) or minimize the + application. - If you remove the indicator applet from gnome-panel, empathy's behaviour - will not change, but the main UI will disappear. It cannot be retrieved - via the indicator applet, obviously, but remains running, so you are - listed as "present" etc. on your IM networks. - - In this situation it is possible to get the UI to re-appear by launching - a new empathy instance (which causes the original instance to display - its UI) but this is not particulary intuitive. - - Empathy should perhaps quit like a traditional program when you click on - the close button and do not have an indicator applet. Perhaps with an - "are you sure" prompt. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: empathy 2.30.0.1-0ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Tue Apr 27 10:25:28 2010 EcryptfsInUse: Yes ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release Candidate i386 (20100419.1) ProcEnviron: - LANG=en_GB.utf8 - SHELL=/bin/bash + LANG=en_GB.utf8 + SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: empathy ** Also affects: empathy via https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=617065 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Changed in: empathy (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: empathy (Ubuntu) Status: New => Triaged -- empathy can be running without a visible UI https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/570590 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