From 444cde419ffcc433502387c6f0c55bc7fd965db9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Damian Minkov <damencho@jitsi.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 12:39:32 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Chooses online chat transport when adding or updating chat
 transports.

---
 .../gui/main/chat/MetaContactChatSession.java  | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/net/java/sip/communicator/impl/gui/main/chat/MetaContactChatSession.java b/src/net/java/sip/communicator/impl/gui/main/chat/MetaContactChatSession.java
index 59a4b73f1..30538bc31 100644
--- a/src/net/java/sip/communicator/impl/gui/main/chat/MetaContactChatSession.java
+++ b/src/net/java/sip/communicator/impl/gui/main/chat/MetaContactChatSession.java
@@ -699,10 +699,24 @@ private void addChatTransports( Contact contact,
             sessionRenderer.setSelectedChatTransport(chatTransport, false);
         }
 
-        // If no current transport is set we choose the first one in the list.
+        // If no current transport is set we choose
+        // the first online from the list.
         if (currentChatTransport == null)
         {
-            currentChatTransport = chatTransports.get(0);
+            for(ChatTransport ct : chatTransports)
+            {
+                if(ct.getStatus() != null
+                    && ct.getStatus().isOnline())
+                {
+                    currentChatTransport = ct;
+                    break;
+                }
+            }
+
+            // if still nothing selected, choose the first one
+            if (currentChatTransport == null)
+                currentChatTransport = chatTransports.get(0);
+
             sessionRenderer
                 .setSelectedChatTransport(currentChatTransport, false);
         }