[Bug 478178] [NEW] Empathy is almost impossible to set as a startup application

[Duncan Lithgow]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: empathy

Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)
Empathy 2.28.1.1

Since I like to have my messenger clients running whenever I'm online I
wanted to set that to happen automaticaly. So here's what I tried:

* I looked in the preferences of Empathy, and appart from the confusing entry "Automatically connect on startup" described in bug #322314 there is nothing about connecting.
* I looked under 'System > Preferences > Startup applications', there is no entry for Empathy so Itry to make one...
   * The file browser starts in my home directory so I assume there's a good reason for that and try to find an entry there for empathy. Sadly there's no entry there called empathy.
   * Luckily I know a bit about this Ubuntu thing and the Gnome Desktop   so I look into the .gnome2 directory. Finally a directory called Empathy. But sadly that only has log files in it.
   * Thinking I'm a bit savvy I navigate to /usr/share/empathy ... but again there is no file I can point to to start empathy ...
   * Now I'm getting annoyed, nothing useful in /usr/share/gnome/autostart
   * Nothing in /usr/share/gnome2
   * /usr/bin/empathy looks promising - maybe I'll be lucky this time.

Now I'm thoroughly annoyed at this stupid system which doesn't seem to
have any standard way of starting an application!

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 70577d17832e34b30176c21d9d564ab0
CheckboxSystem: b845c366ea09c60efa3a45c1b5b21525
Date: Sun Nov  8 08:47:59 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: empathy 2.28.1.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_DK.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: empathy
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2096): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2096): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2141): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:2131): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (gdu-notification-daemon:2136): GduNotification-WARNING **: No notification area. Notification bubbles will not be displayed.

** Affects: empathy (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: 100papercuts apport-bug gui i386 usability

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Empathy is almost impossible to set as a startup application
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