Re: Empathy status in user menu (was: How to work with GNOME3?)

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 00:15 +0100, Calum Benson wrote:
> On 13 Jun 2011, at 22:19, W. Martin Borgert wrote:
> 
> > I purged Empathy from my system, but the entries are still
> > there. Anyway, I believe this status information should be
> > only there when Empathy is currently running, right?
> > 
> > Any ideas on how to get rid of the Empathy status?
> 
> "Available" and "Busy" apparently don't actually indicate your Empathy
> status, but indicate whether or not you want gnome-shell to notify you
> of system and application events. Not surprisingly, this seems to be a
> common point of confusion, so I'm sure we'll see some improvements in
> this area soon.
> 
> <http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2011-March/msg00212.html>

It does integrate with Empathy/Telepathy, in addition to controlling
which notifications are shown. See the help page:

http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/3.0/shell-session-status.html.en

--
Shaun