So it WAS there, and I'm NOT crazy. I have the exact same issue as Rodolfo Gonella Diaza: I can't group the contacts anymore. Since some of my best friends have up to seven different accounts linked to various of my own accounts... well, basically the display isn't enough to tell who is online and who isnt.
running current elementaryos beta1 (wich is based on ubuntu 12.04). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to empathy in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/256478 Title: Support contact grouping (metacontacts) Status in Chat app, and Telepathy user interface: Fix Released Status in People: Invalid Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Binary package hint: empathy Empathy does not support grouping contacts, ie. specifying a friend which exists in several IM networks. This results in same friend being showed over and over again in the list(s). The problem is being solved using libfolks (http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Folks) which can aggregate contacts from multiple sources like People (https://launchpad.net /people-project) and/or Soylent (http://live.gnome.org/Soylent) - According to the Roadmap (http://live.gnome.org/Empathy/Roadmap). To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/empathy/+bug/256478/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp