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["frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx" <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>]

hi,

On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 01:06, Conscious User <conscioususer@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>
> Le vendredi 01 octobre 2010 à 17:55 -0500, Apoorva Sharma a écrit :
> > to get a text box for a broadcast account in the MeMenu, the user has
> > to go to the Messaging Menu to start Gwibber.
>
> Not true. The text box will appear if the Gwibber service is running.
> If the user configures Gwibber to start the service on login (and
> if I remember correctly this is checked by default), the text field
> will always be there and work regardless if he clicked on the Gwibber
> entry in the Messaging Menu or not.
>
> > to actually use the inactive status buttons in the MeMenu, the user
> > has to start chat from the messaging menu,
>
> According to the specification, this is not supposed to happen.
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeMenu#Instant%20messaging%20statuses
>
> "Each item should be sensitive whenever at least one of the
> accounts you have set up in Empathy supports that status,
> regardless of whether Empathy is currently running."
>

yeah, this part got cleaned up only recently:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeMenu?action=diff&rev2=19&rev1=18

so.. actually this sounds to me like circumventing Presence control in
Empathy via MC5!?
or how else would one implement this?