GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 683120
It is hard to make the Contact List re-appear after it disappears
Last modified: 2012-09-11 08:58:16 UTC
If I go offline (for example, by disabling all network connections), the Contact List window disappears. However, the window where I have IRC tabs stays up. When I re-enable my network connection Empathy will go online, but the Contact List won't appear - so, it is hard to initiate a conversation with someone there. If I then go into Gnome Shell's overview and click on the Empathy icon in the dash, apparently nothing happens, because there is already an Empathy-owned window (the IRC one). I have to Ctrl-click on the Empathy icon to make it actually show the Contact List window again. I found myself looking in the shell's user menu for a "Contact List" command, but there isn't one. So, I'm not sure if this bug should be about Empathy or Gnome-shell, but there's clearly some bad interaction between the two :)
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 658043 ***