If Empathy is going to present itself to the user as though it is started (the Indicator panel), it should, in fact, be started. It is entirely misleading to have the status indications there and not have the actual application which sets them running. It's perfectly fine to have a Startup Applications entry for empathy and to have that be the way it starts; however, users should not have to go find that and put that in themselves. It should already be there. The "flexibility" goal of Linux would be met, users intuition about what is going on would be met, life would be good. :) It's no good putting nifty social networking features front-and-center and then telling users "well, to use it, you actually have to go do this and type that, etc..." Fwiw, I think the me menu should also have a direct link to pull up the buddy list, but that's somewhat outside the scope of this bug....
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