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** Changed in: indicator-messages (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1090419

Title:
  messaging-menu doesn't allow one to set availability status if a chat
  program isn't open

Status in The Messaging Menu:
  New
Status in “indicator-messages” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  When I want to be available online, I would like to use the messaging
  indicator to become available (ie set my status to be "Available").
  However, doing so has no effect if I haven't previously opened Empathy
  (or perhaps another properly registered chat program). Also, I am not
  told that the action I just performed had no effect. I have to guess
  or learn over time.

  Weirdly, if I open empathy and subsequently close the empathy window,
  the messaging indicator DOES work to the desired effect, that is, I
  can change my availability status and it will reflect in my online
  status in Empathy.

  Also, if I have successfully become available online, this status is
  not remembered across reboots. To regain availability after reboot I
  would, as described above, have to manually open the Empathy window,
  and then perhaps close it again if I don't want to look at it (I only
  opened it to achieve the side effect of becomning available for chat,
  so I don't want to actually look at it.

  How cumbersome.

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