This continued happening in every version of Ubuntu for the past two years, making me switch to Pidgin every single time.
Please fix this bug, it is certainly not fixed! Great client otherwise ruined by a small oversight. -- 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/332348 Title: Display icon indication for mobile/web client/bot/etc IM users Status in Chat app, and Telepathy user interface: Fix Released Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Binary package hint: empathy Empathy doesn't indicate which contacts are signed in from a mobile device. Pidgin supports icons for mobile users, blocked this users, users that can recieve SMS text msgs, users that have a musictracker plugin installed or is playing music on Windows and has 'Now Playing' enabled to show to their contact, users logged in using a web interface to chat, and users that are bots http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Using%20Pidgin#Whatdotheiconsnexttomybuddymean To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/empathy/+bug/332348/+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
