HI Sebastien, Yes you appear to be right, this bug is only true for times where nm-applet either isnt used or isn't running. I have just fiddled with it and connected though nm-applet and now just "gaim" rather than "gaim -l" gets all accounts logged in.
I've never had Enable Roaming Mode checked before and so saw NM to be useless when it didn't pick up and network hardware. -- Gaim not logging accounts in on startup https://launchpad.net/bugs/91746 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs