[Bug 924473] Re: Pre-existing empathy gtalk account clashes with the "online-accounts" one

[Dario Bertini]

** Description changed:

+ This is probably a UX bug for everyone who's upgrading and keeping its
+ old empathy configuration
+ 
+ Basically: if you have configured a gtalk account, and you try the new
+ online-accounts settings in the gnome-control-center, as per bug
+ lp:855917 in Oneiric you won't notice anything
+ 
+ in Precise that bug has been apparently fixed, thus empathy
+ automatically creates a new gtalk account
+ 
+ There are many things to be done to clear this bug (not all of them at
+ the same time):
+ 
+ - modify online-accounts to check if there's another one already configured inside of empathy (probably not a good idea: it's empathy's duty to behave well) or at least warn of the possibility
+ - modify empathy to stop using the settings from online-accounts (if the related account has been removed from inside empathy and if they haven't been modified in gnome-control-center since)
+ - modify empathy to propose to merge the two (or delete one of the two)
+ - modify empathy to display with a label, or something, that this account hasn't actually been configured inside of empathy
+ 
+ Here is the old description:
+ 
+ ------------------------------------------
+ 
  Empathy creates a second gtalk account, identical to the first one...
  when launching empathy it fails to connect with the bogus account, and
  thus displays an error
  
  after removing this account and logging off and on again, it appears
  again (but not more than one time: it doesn't cumulate between logins,
  it'll just create a single copy of the normal gtalk account)
  
  this doesn't happen with the other (facebook, bonjour, msn) accounts
  that I've configured
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: empathy 3.3.4-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-12.20-generic 3.2.2
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-12-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl
  ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Jan 31 20:19:50 2012
  InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64+mac (20111012)
  SourcePackage: empathy
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-01-20 (11 days ago)

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