It's a different Bug. here the option to share hios desktop was greyed.
I had the same bug as you on 11.10 , but it should be on another Bug report -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to empathy in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/775682 Title: Desktop sharing in Empathy in 11.04 disabled when chatting with Empathy in 10.04 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/775682/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs