Comment 3 for bug 578748

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).