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[Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:41, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Frederik Nnaji wrote on 05/09/10 12:22:
> >...
> > On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 01:17, Apoorva Sharma <appi2012@xxxxxxxxx
> >...
> >> I think the fact that the memenu even shows the state changing
> >> buttons even when chat is off is ridiculous. How is the user
> >> supposed to know that to turn those buttons useable, he has to go to
> >> a different menu?
> >...
> > Yeah, you can't control anything with em, yet the menu items are there..
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeMenu#Instant%20messaging%20statuses doesn't
> > specify MeMenu behaviour for that case, if you check "Use Cases".
> >...
>
> It does specify the behavior, and it has since March. "Each item should
> be sensitive only if at least one of the accounts you have set up in
> Empathy supports that status, regardless of whether Empathy is currently
> running."
>

yes, i simply skipped this constraint, since it doesn't specify how the
controls would get me out of "offline". That sort of behaviour is not being
addressed, intentionally not, as i am beginning to understand..