Remove notification icon redundancy in Ubuntu 10.04

After installing empathy again can you try to logout and login again and then start empathy and check if it appears in the notification area? or in empathy preferences in notifications tab there is an option to disable this icon.

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In this case a screenshot of the issue would help greatly as well. This may in fact be an indicator applet issue and not an empathy one.

I think I'm seeing the same behavior, so let me try to fill in the details. I upgraded to Lucid last week and I have empathy v2.30.1-0ubuntu1 and indicator-me v0.2.6-0ubuntu1. My panel indicator area looks like the attached: the MeMenu has an icon indicating my availability on the right-hand side and Empathy has an icon with an identical appearance on the left-hand side. The icons behave differently when clicked (bringing up the MeMenu and activating the Empathy window, respectively), but as status indicators they are redundant.

By default, I would expect the Empathy icon to go away and for the functionality it exposes to be folded into the MeMenu somehow. I would also expect there to be a configuration option to turn off the Empathy notification icon (if I understand correctly, this is required by the status menu design guidelines: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CustomStatusMenuDesignGuidelines).

I think I've figured this out. Previously, I did not have the Indicator Applet on my Panel (it was not added on upgrade Lucid). When I add the Indicator Applet to the Panel, the redundant Empathy icon disappears and is replaced by the Messaging Menu, as in the attached. (The Indicator Applet also takes over the Rhythmbox icon and leaves all the "old-style" application icons in the Notification Area.)

so not a bug in empathy. its just indicator-applet was not being used in your system. feel free to report any other bugs you may find.