[Pkg-telepathy-maintainers] Bug#511596: Bug#511596: Acknowledgement (empathy: won't connect to (at least) gtalk)

[Michael Banck]

Hi,

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:58:26AM +0200, Jonny Lamb wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 16:33:21 +0100, Ivan Vu??ica wrote:
> > I have tracked the problem down to me having network-manager installed, but
> > not using it. I have written my own script to connect to faculty wireless
> > network since I found network-manager to be misbehaving.
> > 
> > In any case:
> > 
> > empathy_idle_set_presence: NM not connected
> > 
> > It is apparent this affects only a small number of users (either you use
> > n-m, or you have it uninstalled): for this reason, I'll take the honor of
> > reducing severity to important. I still don't find it deserves "normal",
> > since it DOES affect users.
> 
> If you have NetworkManager running, then Empathy will (naturally) try
> to use it. If you don't have NetworkManager running, then Empathy will
> allow you to connect without knowing any connection status.
> 
> If you want to disable NetworkManager support in Empathy, then you can
> set the gconf key /apps/empathy/use_nm to false.

AIUI, there's some sort of manual "please connect" function, that is if
the status is offline and user sets it to online explicitely; empathy
then spins and appears trying to connect but just won't in case NM is
used but reports the machine as offline.

If it is possible for empathy to detect this kind of user action, I
still think it might make sense trying to connect even though NM thinks
there is no network.

Then again, you might think it doesn't make sense, fair enough.


cheers,

Michael