GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 649247
Status menu not syncing with Empathy.
Last modified: 2011-05-06 22:16:53 UTC
We can change IM availability through GNOME Shell status menu, but it works only one way (status menu ➜ Empathy). If I switch status to Available from GNOME Shell it will of course automatically switch in empathy, but if I set in empathy status to Busy, there is still Available marked as active in Shell.
bug 617207 has a discussion of how this was envisioned to work.
I should check existing bugs more carefully. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 617207 ***