I am using empathy, and every time I want to browse my logs I have to do this for instance (ag is a sort of grep, if you are wondering):
cd ~/.local/share/TpLogger/logs/
ag "myterm"
cat myuser/chatrooms/#chatroom/20150409.log
This is absolutely insane; not least of all because the logs are formatted xml style - so I either have to parse them instead of just using cat or try to read between the tags.
Does empathy really have no log viewer?