This is an XMPP issue, not just googletalk. I am seeing this using
jabber between Jaunty's pidgin and empathy on both karmic and lucid.
The upstream bug says (from Will Thompson):
This was a bug/limitation in Gabble. I fixed it in telepathy-gabble 0.9.3:
• Allow sending chat state to contacts
Thanks for your bug report and helping to make Ubuntu a better place.
This bug has been pushed upstream and can be seen at
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=593083 . We would recommend
following there and commenting there if there is anything the devs need
from you.
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Status: Unknown = New
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Typing notification in empathy doesn't work for google talk contacts
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/399039
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It looks like typing notifications are broken for all XMPP chats - I see
not typing notifications when chatting to people via a Jabber server.
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Typing notification in empathy doesn't work for google talk contacts
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/399039
You received this bug notification because
To be more precise: When empathy is used as a Google talk client on one
side of a chat session, typing notification is broken for both peers. It
seems that empathy neither displays this type of notification nor sends
such information to the remote side.
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Typing notification in empathy doesn't
