I think I have managed to get to the bottom of this one, but I think it might need to remain open depending on whether a few things are true or not ...
I changed the default theme of Empathy from Classic to the Blue theme and suddenly everything has started working. If I try to change the theme to either Ubuntu or Classic (the two themes that I prefer to use), I get the resultant behaviour that I reported upon creation of the bug report. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1024693 Title: empathy does not show contacts and performs very sluggishly To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/1024693/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
