GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 673691
empathy -h should not present existing roster window
Last modified: 2012-04-11 17:34:12 UTC
Originally reported at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/975679 When another window (e.g. Chrome/Nautilus/Software Centre) is open, and you wish to open empathy, you can right click on empathy and choose "open hidden in background". This then opens the empathy window on top of the current window (i.e. Not in the background). Repeatable on different computers. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: empathy 3.4.0.1-0ubuntu1
video attached in downstream
Does launching Empathy manually using "empathy -h" works fine ?
(In reply to comment #2) > Does launching Empathy manually using "empathy -h" works fine ? no its also doesnot work fine same behaviour.
Weird, it works fine here. Any chance you could test with gnome-shell instead of Unity?
thats the ubuntu specific so marking invalid here and going to assign some body in the downstream thanks guillaume desmottes for responding
I resolved this as NOTGNOME too fast, it actually doesn't seem to be related to any of my patches. I built 3.4.0.2 with no patches and reproduced it as well. In fact, the problem is actually when empathy is already running. If there is an empathy process already running, "empathy -h" raises the window. It does start hidden with "empathy -h" if there isn't an empathy process already.
i have also reproduced it with the gnome shell as well by using "empathy -h"
Oh I see rephrasing the bug title then.
Created attachment 211814 [details] [review] Don't display anything when being re-invoked in hidden mode Hidden is disabled by default, so if Empathy is re-invoked with --hidden explicitely passed, we shouldn't bring back the contact list or any UI.
Fixed in 3.4. This problem has been fixed in our software repository. The fix will go into the next software release. Thank you for your bug report.
thanks Guillaume Desmottes for the rapid responce