Bug 312623

Summary:	Automatic connect / restore last status does not work — status only set after opening contact list
Product:	[Unmaintained] telepathy	Reporter:	Dennis Schridde <heri+kde>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Telepathy Bugs <kde-telepathy-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	ddomenichelli
Priority:	NOR
Version:	0.5.1
Target Milestone:	Future
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
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Description Dennis Schridde 2013-01-04 17:35:37 UTC

In the instant messaging settings there is an "Automatic connect" section with a "Restore last status" checkbox. This does not appear to do anything useful.

When I login to KDE (automatic login with locked screen — sidenote: takes a few minutes for the desktop to become usable because my PC is slow), I am asked for the KWallet password by the Telepathy/KDE authentication manager. During that time, Telepathy/KDE often already reports connections as failing. After I enter my password, Telepathy/KDE does not switch my presence to online/auto-away or whatever it was last. The icon the presence plasmoid displays is the right one, but the accounts are not actually online. When I click the plasmoid, the contact list opens. When I hover the mouse over the status selector there, I see the list of accounts and their status. Most of them are in connecting state (except Bonjour, which is probably just very fast). This is reproducable, no matter how long I wait after login: The presence plasmoid will display a status, but when I actually open the contact list and hover its status selector, the accounts are shown as offline / connecting.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Dennis Schridde 2013-01-04 17:41:25 UTC

P.S: Usually, after I enter the KWallet password the first time, Telepathy/KDE will ask a 2nd time for the KWallet password. This is odd, because I enter the password correctly the first time, and I have configured KWallet to only close when the screensaver is activated or no application uses it anymore. So apparently Telepathy/KDE closes the wallet or does not tell it that it still needs it.

What I expect from Telepathy/KDE and automatic connect is that it automatically connects all my accounts right after login and not just when I open the contact list.

There might be multiple bugs involved here. I just mention everything that might be related, so you can tell me for which parts I should open a separate report.

Comment 2 Daniele E. Domenichelli 2013-01-06 21:45:49 UTC

The reason why you need to insert the password again is because the auth handler exits when he has no authentications to handle, it's not a bug it is the expected behaviour

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 300062 ***