Transport seems not to set text status, when presence contains no 'show' tag:

<presence xml:lang='ru'><priority>8</priority><status>lalala</status><c xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/caps' hash='sha-1' node='http:// tkabber.jabber.ru/' ver='bakV98EQ65x8UmvjcPuG3q/LyTs='/></presence>

<presence from='icq.jabber.justlan.ru' to='yegord@jabber.ru/home'/>

If we add 'show':

<presence xml:lang='ru'><show>available</show><priority>8</ priority><status>lalala</status><c xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/caps' hash='sha-1' node='http://tkabber.jabber.ru/' ver='bakV98EQ65x8UmvjcPuG3q/ LyTs='/></presence>

<presence from='icq.jabber.justlan.ru' to='yegord@jabber.ru/ home'><show>available</show><status>lalala</status></presence>

Also, I can't set my status to 'chat' in transport.

<presence xml:lang='ru'><show>chat</show><priority>8</ priority><status>Свободен для разговора</status><c xmlns='http:// jabber.org/protocol/caps' hash='sha-1' node='http://tkabber.jabber.ru/' ver='bakV98EQ65x8UmvjcPuG3q/LyTs='/></presence>

<presence from='icq.jabber.justlan.ru' to='yegord@jabber.ru/home'/>

setStatus in legacy/glue.py handles show==None and show=='chat' separately. May be this special handling is the cause.

Version of pyicqt used is 0.8b - SVN r0. But, according to source code, the problem must present in latest version too.

Status text not always can be displayed in ICQ when status 'online' or 'chat'. But I can enable it to handle these cases