GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 603608
empathy cannot participate on g-talk group chats
Last modified: 2009-12-16 12:47:34 UTC
I cannot participate on group chat using empathy. First, I cannot find any way to invite someone else to some chat I'm participating, but this I suppose is another problem, which was reported here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/200763 but somehow it was marked as fix released. Anyway, because of that, I asked the other person to start a group chat and invite me. The problem I'm posting is this: When the other person invites someone to join the chat, a notification (ubuntu-style) appears in which saying that I was invited to joint a chat room, with a long url and a "click here" message. Being a notification, of course one cannot click on it, as it disappears as one puts the mouse over it. The result is that the other side of the conversation sees the chat room formed and one leaving it immediately.
Leandro, thanks for reporting the problem. I assume you're on Ubuntu? Could you install the Telepathy PPA (instructions at https://launchpad.net/~telepathy/+archive/ppa ) and let us know whether you can still reproduce this problem with Empathy 2.29.3?
Yes, I'm using Ubuntu. Well, now the horrible notification bubble link still appears, and a new chat tab is open in which I can click on that link. That opens the browser, and I have to login into my g-mail account so that a popup appears with the group chat window open. Therefore, I can to the group chat, but in a very, very indirect way (not just joining the group chat in my empathy chat window). Also I still cannot find any way to invite someone to group chat. Also my empathy got out of the notification envelope. Is there a way to put it back there?... :-(
Closing as a dup of #604702 which is about google pmuc and has a branch attached. The notification envelope is an Ubuntu specific change. You should use the official empathy ubuntu package to get it. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 604702 ***