Comment 4 for bug 287692

Blinking is the old way of signalling new activity in IM programs in Ubuntu. The new one is using the indicator applet which pop-up an osd and a visual notification. As pidgin already has it but not empathy, we should patch empathy to support the new system in order to be able to disable blinking without regression, as the new notification system will replace it. That's why your bug is linked to that one.