The space is used for the throbber which indicates when Empathy is connecting to your accounts.
The solution to this would probably be to display the throbber permanently, but when the account is offline/online, have it greyed out (see Firefox activity indicator as an example). -- [papercut] Status box doesn't use all available screen space https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/416747 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
