Empathy does not warn the user if no connection manager libraries are installed

Submitted by M. Vefa Bicakci

Description

Hello,

I am using a currently up-to-date Debian Sid installation. I installed Empathy for the first time one week ago or so, and the first problem I had with Empathy was that when tried to add accounts, or when I tried to start empathy-accounts, nothing happened; i.e. no windows showed up and nothing useful was produced in the debugging output.

Finally, I gave up and filed a bug with Empathy:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=615375

However, after a two days of trying to debug this problem with Guillaume Desmottes, I finally found the problem: I had not installed either the telepathy-haze or telepathy-gabber Debian packages, and because of this it wasn't possible to add any accounts.

Unfortunately, this isn't ideal behaviour. If no connection managers are installed, then Empathy should warn the user. Would it be possible to add such a warning window to Empathy?

I filed this bug with Guillaume Desmottes's suggestion.

Thank you.

Version: 2.30.x