Comment 94 for bug 388898

File a new bug against the empathy package and we will mark it as wishlist. I would really like to enable it and I suspect there will be enough stuff needing clutter for karmic+1 that it won't be an issue.

It would be nice of some things like this could be an optional dep for empathy, like a plugin architecture. So it doesn't require uses get empathy from a ppa, just install the right plugin package to enable the feature.