Beautiful stupidity?

[Alex Launi]

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt at canonical.com>wrote:
>
> I know this is a tangent, but: That wasn't an Ubuntu decision, it was a
> series of unfortunate individual decisions. The Ubuntu position was, and
> is, that a notification area item is not enough to advertise an incoming
> IM or phone call, and that clients should open chat windows in the
> background (and phone call windows in the foreground). The Empathy
> developers disagreed, and continued relying on the notification area
> item. Moving Empathy into the messaging menu just made things slightly
> worse. And then the Human icon theme changes that arrived late in Karmic
> made things slightly worse again. It was different people doing each of
> these things.
>

To continue on this tangent, I'm currently working on fixing this behavior
and have a very good start. There's a patch available at
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/206547 and a gitorious
branch for upstream at
http://gitorious.org/empathy-lamalex/empathy-lamalex/commits/new-conv-new-window-585914


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--Alex Launi
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