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Bug 655903 - avatar appears quite large in chat window
avatar appears quite large in chat window
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: empathy
Classification: Core
Component: Chat themes
3.1.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: empathy-maint
: 664350 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-08-03 13:25 UTC by Omer Akram
Modified: 2012-02-24 15:38 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

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2011-08-03 13:25 UTC, Omer Akram 		Details

Description Omer Akram 2011-08-03 13:25:06 UTC 
Created attachment 193168 [details]
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The screenshot says it all. I have seen this issue as well and the problem goes away automatically as soon as I open empathy preferences.
Comment 1 Guillaume Desmottes 2011-08-03 13:42:19 UTC 
Is that your avatar or your contact's. Which protocol is that?
Comment 2 Omer Akram 2011-08-03 14:38:10 UTC 
"Is that your avatar or your contact's"
If we start to chat the avatar is of the both memebers, my message have mine his message is associated with his avatar.

i believe its not specific to any protocol. The launchpad bug report is seeing this issue with MSN I faced with gtalk.
Comment 3 Omer Akram 2011-08-07 15:44:41 UTC 
I can reproduce this problem. The problem is 100% reproduce able on a clean install of Oneiric(probably live cd as well). As mentioned before after opening empathy preferences the problem vanishes
Comment 4 Omer Akram 2011-11-18 19:38:55 UTC 
*** Bug 664350 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Omer Akram 2011-11-18 19:41:00 UTC 
this happens when empathy is started for the first time after Ubuntu 11.10 install, one launchpad commenter observed that starting empathy from the terminal gives

.config/dconf/user could not be written

As I wrote above starting the preference from Edit>Preferences fixes the issue for the install.
Comment 6 Ken VanDine 2012-02-24 14:24:52 UTC 
I think it is failing to set the theme, perhaps an apparmor issue?
Comment 7 Ken VanDine 2012-02-24 15:38:36 UTC 
Ah, in ubuntu we are defaulting to an adium theme but not setting the theme-variant by default.