Bug 694819

Summary:	Pidgin doesn't pick up GNOME proxy settings
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Theodore Lee <theo148>
Component:	pidgin	Assignee:	Stu Tomlinson <stu>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	15	CC:	andy_longworth, fedora, itamar, madko, ricardo.arguello, stu
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Description Theodore Lee 2011-04-08 14:18:19 UTC

Description of problem:
On Fedora 15, setting a proxy using the GNOME network settings has no effect on Pidgin.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
pidgin-2.7.11-2.fc15.x86_64

How reproducible:
This seems to be always reproducible when trying to set a SOCKS proxy to use.
Setting other proxy types doesn't seem to work either, although I haven't tried
those thoroughly.

Steps to Reproduce (generic):
1. Click on the NetworkManager icon and click 'Network Settings'.
2. Go to the 'Network proxy' settings.
3. Set the proxy method to 'Manual'.
4. Type the hostname and port of your proxy in the appropriate field.
5. Start Pidgin.

Actual results:
Pidgin tries to connect to the internet without using a proxy.

Expected results:
Pidgin should connect through the proxy specified in the network settings.

Additional info:
It seems that this issue is affecting a number of applications, which still attempt to fetch proxy settings from gconf instead of the new dconf backend.

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