[Bug 601686] [NEW] empathy tricked me into throwing away my contacts :(

[Alexander Öhman]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: empathy

Ubuntu maverick 10.10
Empathy 2.31.3-1ubuntu1

I wanted to delete an icq-group. And I hoped that empathy would eighter

a) Remove the group but keep the underlying contacts

b) have a message say "If you remove this group ALL contacts in it will
dissapear"

I had two accounts MSN and ICQ

all MSN contact was under a group called "ungrouped". While the ICQ
contacts where all in tjhe group "other contacts".  I hoped that i could
trick empathy into realizing that neighter icq nor msn contacts should
belong to any group, but rather be kept in one scrambled long list....

I was fully aware that i was asking empathy to remove the top "node" of
contacts. But felt that it would eighter "understand" what i ment and
file all contacts under ungrouped, or have the message warn me for
contact loss, or loose the contact on this machine (but not syncing them
away from icq servers).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: empathy 2.31.3-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-6.9-generic 2.6.35-rc3
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-6-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jul  4 22:37:00 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: empathy
XsessionErrors:
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2287): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (transmission:2282): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_thaw_toplevel_updates_libgtk_only: assertion `private->update_and_descendants_freeze_count > 0' failed

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


** Tags: apport-bug i386 maverick

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empathy tricked me into throwing away my contacts :(
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