[Pkg-telepathy-maintainers] Bug#617313: Bug#617313: Bug#617313: empathy: Empathy becomes inaccessible without a tray dock

[Jan Hauke Rahm]

On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 01:07:29PM +0000, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> On 08/03/11 08:16, Jonny Lamb wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 08, 01:28:31 +0100, Fredrik Tolf wrote:
> >> When running a window manager that does not include a
> >> system tray/dock/notification area, the Empathy window becomes
> >> inaccessible if closed. It closes the window, assuming the user
> >> to be able to reaccess it via the non-existing tray, and also
> >> enters that state automatically upon startup, so there's really
> >> no way at all of bringing it back other than starting a temporary
> >> tray program like stalonetray or trayer.
> > 
> > Actually there is. If you try to run empathy again from the command
> > line or from some application menu, it will pop up the main window
> > again due to the single-instance nature of the application. Empathy
> > should also start as visible as it was left on the last execution.
> > 
> > Empathy is a GNOME application. GNOME has a system tray area. I'm
> > tempted to wontfix this bug.
> 
> GNOME Shell doesn't (it does for legacy apps, but it's kind of a workaround), so
> I guess we may be removing it or making it optional at some point.

Now we're there. With current empathy and gnome-shell in experimental,
there is no tray icon and thus no way to click-open the buddy list.
What's worse, there is in fact no way to open it at all. Neither
clicking on some empathy icon, nor starting empathy from gnome-do does
anything. I'm not able to access the buddy list.

"Starting" empathy from a shell shows:

,----
| ?0 jhr at ca:~ (sid) 8:11:17 $ empathy
|
| ** (empathy:4316): WARNING **: Metadata for error domain"geoclue-error-quark" already registered
|
| ?0 jhr at ca:~ (sid) 8:11:21 $
`----

Hauke

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