Comment 11 for bug 256478

Why is this so far back on the Roadmap? This is a serious problem with Empathy. With it being the official IM client in Gnome and Ubuntu, it needs to behave like people expect multi-protocol IM clients to behave, and contact grouping is a feature that pretty much every other similar program does. I am certain that there are a large number of people who would switch from pidgin if this one issue was fixed.