Comment 7 for bug 470377

Sure, let me explain. The version of empathy in the ubuntu karmic repository includes a distro patch, making empathy take advantage of the messaging indicator. That feature isn't in the upstream (empathy developers) version, which is the version in the telepathy ppa. The telepathy ppa is a repository for packages provided by the upstream developers, not affiliated with Ubuntu as a distro. Ubuntu patches empathy to provide the user experience consistency within the Ubuntu desktop. If you have enabled the telepathy ppa, I assume you are testing empathy or one of the telepathy packages. We certainly encourage that, but the user experience won't be the same, it will be that of the upstream package (which isn't bad by no means).