I've implemented the respawning-Close() behaviour for chat rooms in Idle (bug 24273). I feel like time spent making it opt-in could be better spent elsewhere, so I haven't done that.
-- 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/732688 Title: irc #rooms persistent setting Status in Chat app, and Telepathy user interface: Confirmed Status in Telepathy framework - library: Confirmed Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Binary package hint: empathy Every time I join a room in one of the IRC channels and I close the windows Empathy logs me off that room. There should be a persistent settings to keep yourself logged in even when that window has been closed, just like Pidgin. This was also discussed on the thread in the ubuntu forums: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1508994 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: empathy 2.32.1-0ubuntu1.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-27.48-generic 2.6.35.11 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-27-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Architecture: i386 Date: Thu Mar 10 16:18:59 2011 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007) ProcEnviron: SHELL=/bin/bash LANG=en_IE.utf8 SourcePackage: empathy XsessionErrors: (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2122): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed (nautilus:2118): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_value_free: assertion `value != NULL' failed (dropbox:2161): Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_window_thaw_toplevel_updates_libgtk_only: assertion `private->update_and_descendants_freeze_count > 0' failed To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/empathy/+bug/732688/+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

