If the user has set their state as Away with a custom status message (e.g. Away/Backing Up Laptop), then when Empathy goes to Extended Away and comes back the state/status are lost.

empathy-idle.c:201 clearly shows this is intentional:

                if (priv->away_saved_state == MC_PRESENCE_AWAY ||
                    priv->away_saved_state == MC_PRESENCE_EXTENDED_AWAY) {
                        priv->away_saved_state = MC_PRESENCE_AVAILABLE;
                        new_status = NULL;
                } else {
                        new_status = priv->status;
                }

but I wonder if this is the expected behaviour. i.e. if a user accidently moves their mouse and interrupts Extended Away, their intended status is lost.

Thoughts?