Still exists for Google Talk in Lucid Beta 2. AIM works fine, however.
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Setting status to 'Hidden' changes status to 'Busy' instead
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/257190
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I'm trying out Ubuntu 10.04 Beta 2. When I added my AIM account to
Empathy, I was able to set my status to Invisible but when I added my
Google Talk account, my status changed to Busy and I was not able to
change it back to Invisible. When I
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #550502
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=550502
** Also affects: empathy via
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=550502
Importance: Unknown
Status: Unknown
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Empathy does not support Invisible status for Google Talk
This is ridiculous. Clearly a huge number of people are upset by this
development. a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/278995/;It even got a
mention on LWN./a
As Ralph pointed out, someone even submitted a patch to revert the bug,
and had his comments deleted for his trouble.
The least you can do is
I also found this frustrating, particularly because the help
documentation hasn't been updated. It still describes the old checkbox,
which doesn't exist.
The command line is different from GUIs, where blinking helps convey
focus. Seems like a lot of other people think so too. Perhaps this is a
