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

[Duncan Lithgow]

** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt"
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** Attachment added: "ProcMaps.txt"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35356003/ProcMaps.txt

** Attachment added: "ProcStatus.txt"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35356004/ProcStatus.txt

** Description changed:

  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
+ * 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 and give up.
+ 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
+  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.
+  (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.

** Tags added: 100papercuts gui usability

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Empathy is almost impossible to set as a startup application
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