Comment 21 for bug 435329

I took a quick look at the canonical patch adding libindicate support to empathy, but I couldn't see any way to tell whether the indicator applet was actually running - if someone can tell me how to tell that, I could do a quick untested patch, as the place in the code to change is pretty clear. Out of interest, why were these changes not submitted (or accepted) upstream? This sort of distro-specific stuff is just asking for problems.