[Pkg-telepathy-maintainers] Bug#747434: empathy: Impossible to open Empathy contact list window if already started with '-h' option

[Christian Lauinger]

Package: empathy
Version: 3.12.1-1+b1
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

Dear Maintainer,

If I add Empathy to 'Startup Applications' to start it with '-h' option, I'll
never be able to open the contact list window.
1. Make sure Empathy is not running. If it is running quit it, or kill it from
the system monitor.
2. In a terminal, start empathy using the "start hidden option, as follows:
    $ empathy -h
3. Notice that empathy is now running in system moitor.
4. From the activities menu/favorite apps laucher try to start Empathy.
5. The Empathy Contact List window does *not* appear, as expected.
6. Notice that empathy is still running in the background in system moitor.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages empathy depends on:
ii  dbus-x11                                     1.8.2-1
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.20.0-2
ii  empathy-common                               3.12.1-1
ii  geoclue-2.0                                  2.1.7-1
ii  gnome-icon-theme                             3.12.0-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                    3.12.0-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio                      1.2.4-1
ii  libc6                                        2.18-5
ii  libcairo2                                    1.12.16-2
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                           0.30-2
ii  libcanberra0                                 0.30-2
ii  libchamplain-0.12-0                          0.12.7-1+b1
ii  libchamplain-gtk-0.12-0                      0.12.7-1+b1
ii  libcheese-gtk23                              3.12.0-1
ii  libclutter-1.0-0                             1.18.2-1
ii  libclutter-gst-2.0-0                         2.0.10-1
ii  libclutter-gtk-1.0-0                         1.5.2-2
ii  libcogl-path20                               1.18.0-2
ii  libcogl20                                    1.18.0-2
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2                             0.102-1
ii  libenchant1c2a                               1.6.0-10
ii  libfarstream-0.2-2                           0.2.3-3
ii  libfolks-telepathy25                         0.9.6-3+b1
ii  libfolks25                                   0.9.6-3+b1
ii  libgcr-base-3-1                              3.12.0-1
ii  libgcr-ui-3-1                                3.12.0-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.30.7-1
ii  libgee-0.8-2                                 0.10.5-1
ii  libgeocode-glib0                             3.12.0-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.40.0-3
ii  libgnutls26                                  2.12.23-15
ii  libgoa-1.0-0b                                3.12.1-1
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0               1.2.4-1
ii  libgstreamer1.0-0                            1.2.4-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.12.1-1
ii  libgudev-1.0-0                               204-9
ii  libmission-control-plugins0                  1:5.16.1-1
ii  libnotify4                                   0.7.6-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.36.3-1
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0                      5.0-2
ii  libpulse0                                    5.0-2
ii  libsecret-1-0                                0.18-1
ii  libsoup2.4-1                                 2.46.0-2
ii  libtelepathy-farstream3                      0.6.1-1
ii  libtelepathy-glib0                           0.24.0-1
ii  libtelepathy-logger3                         0.8.0-3
ii  libwebkitgtk-3.0-0                           2.2.6-1
ii  libx11-6                                     2:1.6.2-1
ii  libxml2                                      2.9.1+dfsg1-3
ii  telepathy-logger                             0.8.0-3
ii  telepathy-mission-control-5                  1:5.16.1-1

Versions of packages empathy recommends:
ii  gvfs-backends            1.20.1-1+b1
ii  sound-theme-freedesktop  0.8-1
ii  telepathy-gabble         0.18.2-1
ii  telepathy-haze           0.8.0-1
ii  telepathy-salut          0.8.1-2

Versions of packages empathy suggests:
ii  telepathy-idle  0.2.0-1
ii  vino            3.12.0-1

Versions of packages empathy is related to:
ii  telepathy-gabble [telepathy-connection-manager]  0.18.2-1
ii  telepathy-haze [telepathy-connection-manager]    0.8.0-1
ii  telepathy-idle [telepathy-connection-manager]    0.2.0-1
ii  telepathy-rakia [telepathy-connection-manager]   0.8.0-2
ii  telepathy-salut [telepathy-connection-manager]   0.8.1-2

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