Comment 27 for bug 433714

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nUboon2Age (nuboon2age) wrote : Re: [Bug 433714] Re: initial empathy account wizard does not offer IRC as an account

Thank you for the good news Omer. I hope we will put it into 10.04.2 as
well.

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 7:03 AM, Omer Akram <email address hidden> wrote:

> this bug is now fixed upstream. the fix for it will be in empathy
> 2.31.91 in Maverick
>
> ** Changed in: empathy (Ubuntu)
> Status: Triaged => Fix Committed
>
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> initial empathy account wizard does not offer IRC as an account
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/433714
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> Status in Chat app, and Telepathy user interface: Confirmed
> Status in NULL Project: Invalid
> Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed
> Status in Baltix GNU/Linux: New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: empathy
>
> In both karimc alpha 5 and alpha 6, and the Lucid daily image from 2-24,
> when starting the empathy IM client, the wizard that starts gives a list of
> accounts available to create. In this list, IRC is missing. I've seen this
> both on the live environment and a clean install.
>
> The workaround is to exit and go to Edit -> Accounts (F4) and Add an
> account. IRC is listed in this location. In Lucid, you have to get past the
> wizard (basically set up one account) this work around.
>
> A new user that installs Karmic, may want to get to IRC #ubuntu channel,
> and this gives the initial perception that they cannot accomplish this.
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