[Bug 570590] Re: empathy can be running without a visible UI

[Jon Dowland]

With no indicator applet, this causes empathy to draw an icon in the
notification area.

so the bug can be restated as:

With no indicator applet in gnome-panel and with the default options set
(i.e. "show incoming messages in the messaging menu"), on clicking the
'close' button on the empathy main UI, empathy will remain running but
without any visual indication it is doing so.

Suggested solution:

When deciding whether to draw an icon in the notification area, take
into account both the "show incoming messages in the messaging menu"
preference and whether or not the indicator applet is running.

Additionally:

When there is no indicator applet nor notification area loaded in the
panel, the behaviour of the close button should change. It should either
exit the application (as per HIG), perhaps prompting the user for
confirmation (since this is not the usual behaviour) or minimize the
application (functionally equivalent to "docking" the app in the
notification area or indicator applet, and the behaviour chosen by MSN
messenger in Windows 7)

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empathy can be running without a visible UI
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/570590
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