*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 550824 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/550824
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On 23 Apr 2011, at 03:58, Patrick Scott <[email protected]>
wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 550824 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/550824
>
> This bug is not a duplicate of bug 550824. These are two very
> different
> issues. Bug 550824 is related to the 'Chat Status' change options
> becoming disabled (greyed out) after the user changes uses the Me Menu
> to change his Chat Status to offline. It is a simple usability bug and
> has been fixed for Natty I believe. This Bug (452067), however, is
> related to the 'Chat Status' options being disabled (greyed out) when
> the user logs in and there is no apparent way to make those options
> enabled using the Me Menu. This is a much bigger issue as the user
> must
> instead somehow know that he must launch the empathy application to
> get
> these options enabled and get to work (that's no good for new users, I
> was left confused when I joined Linux @ Ubuntu 10.04 ).
>
> Expected Result for this Bug Report:
> - Once the user logs in, he should be able to change his 'Chat
> Status' from Offline to any of the other available options using the
> Me Menu WITHOUT having to first launch Empathy.
>
> As mentioned by one of the earlier posters here, invoking this
> change of
> status probably shouldn't launch the Contact List. The option "Show
> Contact List" should also be added to the Me Menu. I have submitted a
> Bug Report 763266 for that but it is yet to be triaged
> (https://bugs.launchpad.net/indicator-me/+bug/763266).
>
> It disappoints me that, after 12 months of using Linux and Ubuntu,
> this
> issue which has really annoyed me since day 1 still hasn't been worked
> on and yet this Bug has been reported all the way back in October 2009
> and has since been marked as a duplicate.
>
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> Title:
> indicator-applet-session should launch empathy if I change my status
>
> Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
> Invalid
> Status in Me Menu:
> Confirmed
> Status in “indicator-me” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: indicator-applet-session
>
> If empathy is not started, indicator-applet-session will not allow me
> to change my online status by greying out the menu.
>
> Instead, it should automatically launch empathy if I choose to become
> online.
>
>
> Current situation is a big usability bug because :
>
> - Most users will not understand that they have to start empathy
> first.
> - We etablish an artificial difference for two situations that are
> similar for the end-user : having empathy launched but hidden and
> not having empathy launched. From an user perspective, there's no
> way to distinguish between those situatitons. And it should not be
> the case.
>
> Note that indicator-applet already behaves correctly.
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