Comment 53 for bug 435329

I've just had a very confusing time trying to get an Empathy icon visible in the notification area:

- I do *not* have an indicator applet running; I have a widescreen monitor and use vertical panels, and the indicator applet doesn't support these (and the authors do not appear to wish to support them; see #410254).

- I start Empathy. I have no contacts. I close the window. I get the minimise-to-panel animation, but nothing appears.

- ps shows that Empathy is still running, despite having no window and no icon.

Investigation shows that the icon only appears if I have at least one account. I assume there's a corner case here where if there are no accounts there is no status and therefore no icon. Either way it's not pretty having an application running that I can't interact with.

I believe this bug may not be as fixed as it looks...