For the spell checker, that would be a bug in aspell for the language you are using. I expect this is due to your selected language, though, and not a fault on aspell's part. en_CA and en_GB, for example, spell favourite with a U and don't have the US spelling in their dictionaries.
For the other issue, could you please provide a screenshot? Again, it's probably an issue with your icon theme (Empathy doesn't have much choice in the matter), but we can forward this bug report in that direction. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to empathy in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/817769 Title: it can't spell "favorite", & the icon is the same as a dead person's icon for offline.. Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: basically that ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: empathy 2.32.1-0ubuntu1.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-30.54-generic 2.6.35.13 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-30-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Jul 28 16:42:53 2011 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007) ProcEnviron: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: empathy To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/817769/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

