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Yesterday I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.10, which uses Empathy 3.6. I've noticed that all of my contacts are now sorted alphabetically, rather than by their online status, and Empathy's preferences don't seem to have any options for sorting contacts.

I've looked in gconf to see if there was a hidden setting, and I found this under apps/empathy/contacts:

sort_criterium: state

The setting seems to suggest that Empathy should be sorting the contacts by their state (online status, I assume), rather than alphabetically, but Empathy is completely ignoring this setting. I assume it's from a previous version of Empathy.

Any thoughts on how to solve this (or if it's even possible these days)?

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I think this should be filed as a bug/enhancement. – devav2 Oct 20 '12 at 8:45
I totally agree you should lodge a bug here: bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+filebug – shaneonabike Nov 6 '12 at 16:00
I have filled a bug for this issue. bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/1100034 – Marcin Palka Jan 15 at 21:35
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Filed by user Marcin Palka as an answer: I have filled a bug for this issue. – bender Jan 15 at 22:03
As this is a bug report or feature request, it is off-topic for Ask Ubuntu (but fortunately has been filed on Launchpad, where work can be done on it). To the extent to which this is not a bug report or feature request, it should probably be considered a call for subjective discussion, and since Ask Ubuntu is a question-and-answer site rather than a forum, such discussions can rarely take place constructively here. Therefore, I recommend we close this question now. – Eliah Kagan Jan 16 at 1:23

closed as off topic by Eliah Kagan, Eric Carvalho, Uri Herrera, hhlp, gertvdijk Jan 16 at 13:06

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